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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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THE SIZE OF THE PRIZE: TESTING RENT-DISSIPATION WHEN TRANSFER QUANTITY IS ENDOGENOUS [PDF]
We present a transfer-seeking model of political economy in which the size of the transfer is determined endogenously, and in which over-dissipation of rents is predicted even under conditions of risk-neutrality and perfect rationality.
Bullock, David S., Rutstrom, Elisabet E.
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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Political Media Contests and Confirmatory Bias [PDF]
This paper models a two-period media contest between two political candidates campaigning to win an election. Two main cases are examined. In the first case voters behave as unbiased Bayesian updaters when assessing political information. The second case
Jacobsson, Adam
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Mining and Analyzing the Italian Parliament: Party Structure and Evolution
, 2015 The roll calls of the Italian Parliament in the XVI legislature are studied by employing multidimensional scaling, hierarchical clustering, and network analysis.
AK Jain +13 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques +2 more
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Do Liberals Play Nice? The Effects of Party and Political Ideology in Public Goods and Trust Games [PDF]
We test the conventional wisdom that political ideology is associated with generosity or compassion by comparing the behavior of experimental subjects in public goods or trust games. We find that self-described liberals and those identifying more closely
Jeffrey Milyo +2 more
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Return and Volatility Spillovers Among Major Cotton Markets
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores return and volatility transmission among major cotton markets. Several events have disrupted cotton supply and demand in recent years, leading to heightened price volatility and significant shifts in market interconnections.
Susmitha Kalli +3 more
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Detecting Misinformation: Identifying False News Spread by Political Leaders in the Global South
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital MediaWe provide and examine an approach for detecting false stories that circulate as text and without hyperlinks, which are commonly found in the Global South.
Valerie Wirtschafter +5 more
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THE CATEGORY «POLITICAL BEHAVIOR» IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF SOCIETY
Современная наука и инновации, 2022 The Article is devoted to the analysis of political behavior as a fundamental component of political culture of society. The paper treats the question of the relationship of political culture the concept of political behavior, its place and role in the ...
Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Berkovsky
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