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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah, Obed Quaicoe, Fafanyo Asiseh, John N. Ng'ombe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acquiring and developing healthcare leaders' political skills: an interview study with healthcare leaders. [PDF]

BMJ Lead, 2023
Waring J, Bishop S, Clarke J, Exworthy M, Fulop NJ, Hartley J, Ramsay AIG, Black G, Roe B.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
wiley   +1 more source

The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing nutritious meals in institutional settings with financial constraints, such as military dining facilities, is challenging. The US Department of War (DoW) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to modernize the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) using an optimization model that incorporates service members' consumption ...
Linlin Fan, Yiwen Zhao, Andrea Carlson, Parke Wilde, Joanna Reagan, Julianna Jayne, Starr Seip, Denise Laursen, Matthew P. Rabbitt   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Primary school children's internet skills: a report on performance tests of operational, formal, information, and strategic internet skills [PDF]

, 2014
The performance levels of fundamental (i.e., operational and formal) and advanced (i.e., information and strategic) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children.
Stegemana, A.G.M., Perik, H.T.M., Stegeman, A.G., Perika, H.T.M., van Delzen, M., van Deursena, A.J.A.M., van Delzena, M., van Deursen, A.J.A.M., Görzig, Anke   +8 more
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Leader Member Exchange as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Schools’ Openness to Change and Political Skills of School Principals

SAGE Open
In today’s competitive and complex environment, school leaders require social influencing skills to mobilize schools to enable them to adapt to change.
Bekir Bilge, Tuğba Konaklı
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the relationship between political intelligence and spiritual intelligence with the communication skills [PDF]

مطالعات عملکردی در روانشناسی ورزشی
between political intelligence and spiritual intelligence with the communication skills of physical education managers of Islamic Azad University. Materials and Methods: the study of the purpose and nature of the applied research component.
Reza Hashemi Mad, Javad Adabi, Reza Sabonchi, Hossein Alimohammadi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Survival Skills for the Political Environment of Health Insurance

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2006
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan asked the Michigan state government for small group market rate reform already adopted in most other states. Officials responded with major restructuring proposals aimed specifically at the Blues.
William G. Weissert
doaj   +1 more source