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Health coverage and farmworker productivity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Farmworkers are often subject to hazardous working conditions, experience a disparity in health insurance coverage, and are vulnerable to chronic health conditions and injury. Although recent health care mandates have improved access to healthcare, many agricultural employers still do not offer coverage for their employees. Because farmworkers
Zachariah Rutledge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmer behavior toward herbicide‐free agriculture and conservation tillage

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Balancing conflicting policy goals is a key challenge in the transition to sustainable agricultural systems. An important example is herbicide use reduction potentially conflicting with conservation tillage—which often strongly relies on herbicide use.
Viviana Garcia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resource windfalls and political sabotage: Evidence from 5.2 million political ads

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study the role of incentives in inducing sabotage in political contents, vis‐à‐vis natural resource windfalls. The latter induce plausibly exogenous increases in contests' stakes by extending opportunities for policy implementation or private gain upon winning and enhancing incumbent advantage.
David Lagziel, Ehud Lehrer, Ohad Raveh
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond health protection: Estimating the impact of public health insurance on home‐based livestock raising in rural China

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Livestock often serves as self‐insurance against health shocks for rural households in developing countries. However, little is known about how public health insurance affects livestock production decisions. This paper fills the gap by examining the impact of China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) on household‐level livestock ...
Ran Li
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing the relationship between bus and ride-hailing use in a large emerging economy city: A bivariate ordered probit model application

open access: gold
Marcelle Dorneles Ribeiro   +4 more
openalex   +1 more source

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