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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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Political interest in city of Tilburg 1966
, 2007 ( Un )employment / voting behaviour / motivation / political knowledge / political interest / anomy / alienation / sense of political efficacy / misanthropy / authoritarianism / achievement / success motivation / social participation / organizational ...
Katholieke Hogeschool Tilburg * Tilburg, Sociologisch instituut (primary investigator)
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Political news with a personal touch: How human interest framing indirectly affects policy attitudes [PDF]
, 2015 Journalists increasingly use personal exemplars in news stories about political issues. This study experimentally investigated how such human interest framing indirectly affects political attitudes via the way people attribute responsibility of an issue.
Boomgaarden, H.G. +4 more
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Political Equality and Substantive Representation by Interest Groups
, 2022 The interest group literature has long struggled with how to empirically approach the normative idea of a non-biased group system. While most previous attempts have focused on the descriptive representation of different types of groups, this article ...
Boräng, Frida,, Naurin, Daniel
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Drivers of Precision Agriculture Adoption in Italian Viticulture
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the main drivers influencing the adoption of two types of precision farming technologies in the viticultural sector: Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and Variable Rate Technologies (VRTs). We apply a partial proportional odds model and find that socio‐demographic characteristics are not significant determinants of adoption ...
Olimpia Fontana +3 more
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Good governance for planetary and the public's health
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2022 Peter W. Tait
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Ψυχολογία: το Περιοδικό της Ελληνικής Ψυχολογικής Εταιρείας, 2019 European youth’s civic engagement and political participation in EU-related issues is a timely imperative. Research findings on youth citizenship range from political apathy to alternative forms of participation, although theoretical evidence remains ...
Vassilis Pavlopoulos +2 more
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Environmental Policy, Public Interest and Political Market [PDF]
In this article, we highlight the factors which influence governments in their decision to implement environmental policies of varying degrees of severity.
Georges A. Tanguay +2 more
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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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Political vs. Currency Premia in International Real Interest Differentials: A Study of Forward Rates for 24 Countries [PDF]
Different approaches to quantifying the degree of capital mobility for a cross-section of currencies -- particularly saving-investment correlations and tests of real interest parity - have appeared to show a surprisingly low degree of financial market ...
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Alan T. MacArthur
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