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Voluntary Collective Action to Address Growing Agricultural Challenges in Two Countries: Experimental Insights and Commonalities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted two framed field economic experiments with citrus farmers in Florida, United States and soybean farmers in Argentina to investigate their willingness to coordinate pest and weed management efforts. Despite the contrast between these two agricultural contexts, we find striking behavioral commonalities.
Ariel Singerman, Sergio H. Lence
wiley   +1 more source

From Accra to America: Putting development first in global health. [PDF]

PLOS Glob Public Health
Ratevosian J, Menson WNA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Rational Expectations and Market Timing: An Event Study of the China–United States Phase One Trade Deal

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rational actors constantly incorporate information into their decision‐making behavior. Since there is often a time lag between the announcement of a policy and its implementation, an important question arises: when do rational actors incorporate new information into their market behavior, at the announcement or at the implementation of a ...
Tim Ölkers, Oliver Mußhoff
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging institutional expertise and democratic decentralization: a proposed hub-and-spoke framework for rehabilitation, built on Kerala's model of community-based disability care. [PDF]

Front Rehabil Sci
Mathew K V B, Walarine MT.
europepmc   +1 more source

Russian Local Self-Government: The Evolution Towards Its End

, 2017
This chapter examines the evolution and development of local self-goverance in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Local self-government emerged in Russia, as a separate level of power, at the beginning of the 1990s. However, it has never been
Kononenko, P., Gushchina, K.
core  

The Effect of SNAP Purchasing Power on Diet Quality

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits millions of eligible low‐income Americans by increasing access to food, helping to reduce food insecurity. Previous studies have documented that the geographical variation in local food prices leads to significant differences in SNAP's purchasing power.
Farah Khan, Augustine Denteh
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign Aid in Transition: A Critical Assessment of USAID's Withdrawal From Five Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

Public Health Chall
Tamirisa K, Rahim FO, Ali S, Shilleh A, Rugakingira A, Bakahirwa P, Kanda M.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Courtney Bir, Andrew J. Van Leuven, Rebecca Wasserman‐Olin, Wendong Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the Generosity of Medicines (Gen-MED): characterizing the complex relationships of medication donations in Japan through stakeholder and social network analysis. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Arakawa N, Namata C, Kobayashi E, Mamiya KT, Irie T, Egawa T, Watson KE.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Constructing and Validating New County‐Level Cultural Capital Indices for Applied Policy Analysis: Evidence From SNAP Take‐Up

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap, Becca B. R. Jablonski, John Bovay   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source