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Is Political Theory Politically Interesting?
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory, 2002 openaire +3 more sources
Political Competition with Campaign Contributions and Informative Advertising [PDF]
This paper presents a model of political competition with campaign contributions and informative political advertising. Policy-motivated parties compete by selecting candidates and interest groups provide contributions to enhance the electoral prospects ...
Stephen Coate
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study develops and empirically estimates a structural framework to decompose the causal pathways of multilevel behavioral interventions targeting adolescent health behaviors. We apply this framework to the Kids SIPsmartER (KSS) program, a 6‐month, school‐based intervention evaluated through a clustered randomized controlled trial in rural
Naveen Abedin +5 more
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A sociocultural approach to voting: Construing voting as a duty to others predicts political interest and engagement. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AWaldfogel HB, Dittmann AG, Birnbaum HJ.
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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich +4 more
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Economic Impacts of Pink Hibiscus Mealybug in Florida and the United States [PDF]
Replaced with revised version of paper 12/15/05.Invasive Species, Political Economy, Tariffs, Bargaining, Interest Groups, International Relations/Trade, H23, Q17, Q58,
Ranjan, Ram
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Food insecurity and unemployment among immigrants in the United States
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Immigrants can be more vulnerable to economic downturns and, during periods of economic hardship, more likely to experience food insecurity compared to natives. This study examines the differential effect of the unemployment rate on the probability of being food insecure among diverse groups of immigrant households relative to natives in the ...
Siwen Zhou +3 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Discrete choice experiments are increasingly being used to estimate land managers' willingness to accept participation in incentive‐based environmental programs. This is a specific application of discrete choice experiments: the estimation of willingness to accept for a private good (program participation) where respondents have to make trade ...
Anastasio J. Villanueva +2 more
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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND EFFICIENCY IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURE [PDF]
Benefit-Cost Analysis involves several steps: development of a program information structure (product categories), estimating the production function, pricing benefits and costs, adjusting for opportunity costs, choice of investment criteria, and ...
Schmid, A. Allan
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper derives a firm‐level threshold, the Herfindahl Neutral Point, from the standard concentration index used in merger review. At this threshold, a marginal expansion leaves the index unchanged. Firms below the threshold reduce concentration when they expand; firms above it increase concentration.
Andrew J. Keller, Krishna P. Paudel
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