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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang +4 more
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Do Universal Free School Meals Improve the Dietary Quality of Food‐At‐Home Purchases?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since 2014, the number of schools offering universal free meals to all enrolled children without requiring annual meal applications has increased meaningfully. Using USDA's Purchase to Plate Crosswalk, a difference‐in‐differences framework, and a nationwide consumer panel, the effect of universal‐free‐meal exposure on the diet quality of food ...
Xueying Ma +2 more
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A Nonparametric Search for Information Effects from USDA Reports
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2015 Two nonparametric tests are employed to investigate the potential information value of USDA crop and livestock reports. If daily returns on days that reports are released (announcement days) differ when compared to non-announcement days for a sizeable ...
Jeffrey Dorfmann, Berna Karali
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract World markets for quality differentiated agri‐food products are highly competitive, presenting significant challenges for firms aiming to compete effectively. Government agencies and business organizations often implement various export promotion policies to address these challenges.
Nicolás Depetris‐Chauvin +1 more
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International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2009 This paper examines urban-rural effects on public upper-secondary school efficiency in northern Thailand. In the study, efficiency was measured by a nonparametric technique, data envelopment analysis (DEA).
SANGCHAN KANTABUTRA
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
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On robust nonparametric regression estimation for a functional regressor
Statistics & Probability Letters, 2008 We study a family of robust nonparametric estimators for a regression function based on a kernel method when theregressors are functional random variables. We establish the almost complete convergence rate of these estimatorsunder the probability measure’s concentration property on small balls of of the functional variable. Simulations aregiven to show
Azzedine, Nadjia +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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Robust Estimation and Inference for Semiparametric and Nonparametric Regression Models
MathematicsParametric regression methods are efficient when correctly specified but are sensitive to model misspecification and outliers. Nonparametric regression offers greater flexibility at the cost of reduced interpretability and susceptibility to the curse of ...
Hamdy F. F. Mahmoud +2 more
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Treatment recommendation and parameter estimation under single-index contrast function
Statistical Theory and Related Fields, 2017 In this article, we consider a semiparametric model for contrast function which is defined as the conditional expected outcome difference under comparative treatments.
Cui Xiong, Menggang Yu, Jun Shao
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