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Farmers' Preferences for Gene Editing Crops and Influencing Factors

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gene editing (GE) is gaining momentum worldwide, but limited data on UK farmers' preferences hinders our understanding of its potential impact amid deregulation debates. Based on a survey of 200 English arable farmers, we employ a Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logit regressions to investigate current preferences for GE crops.
Bertolozzi‐Caredio Daniele, Vigani Mauro   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

German employers and the origins of unemployment insurance. Skills interest or strategic accommodation? [PDF]

This paper analyzes the attitudes of industrial employers during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic towards the adoption of public unemployment insurance. While employers initially opposed unemployment insurance, they eventually endorsed it.
Paster, Thomas
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Empowering youth: the potential of serious games

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
Youth are often envisioned as providing hope for a better future. However, many young people face challenges and are disconnected from economic and political decision-making.
Annisa Hasanah, Roger C. Baars
doaj   +1 more source

Differentiated Impacts of EU Rural Development Measures: A Finite Mixture Evaluation of Italian Olive Farms

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between participation in the EU Rural Development Program and the economic performance of Italian olive farms using a finite‐mixture model with inverse‐probability‐weighted regression adjustment. Based on 2010–2022 FADN panel data, it estimates heterogeneous treatment effects while correcting for selection ...
Francesco Caracciolo, Marilena Furno
wiley   +1 more source

Voluntary Collective Action to Address Growing Agricultural Challenges in Two Countries: Experimental Insights and Commonalities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted two framed field economic experiments with citrus farmers in Florida, United States and soybean farmers in Argentina to investigate their willingness to coordinate pest and weed management efforts. Despite the contrast between these two agricultural contexts, we find striking behavioral commonalities.
Ariel Singerman, Sergio H. Lence
wiley   +1 more source

Low Participation and Risk Reduction Potential of Supplemental Crop Insurance in the United States

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Federally subsidized crop insurance is a cornerstone of U.S. farm risk management, yet policies with the greatest share of participation only trigger indemnities after losses exceed 15%. Supplemental insurance was introduced to cover part of this deductible, but participation remains largely unchanged.
Francis Tsiboe, Hunter Biram, Amy Hagerman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Skills Framework: A Councillor’s Toolkit [PDF]

, 2013
The Political Skills toolkit (PSF) is designed to support local councillors and those working with them in their efforts to review and support individual development needs. The tool-kit contains: 1.
Silvester, J.
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Delaying the Inevitable? U.S. Screwworm Closures and Feeder Cattle Market Dynamics

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biosecurity trade restrictions are commonly framed as preventive measures, yet in many settings they function primarily as policies of delay: they impose immediate market costs while only postponing the arrival of biological risks. This paper evaluates that intertemporal tradeoff using the 2024–2025 US suspension of live cattle imports from ...
Shelby Sumner, Savannah Jones, Tania Islam, K. Aleks Schaefer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Productivity Impact of Skills in English Manufacturing, 2001: Evidence from Plant-Level Matched Data [PDF]

Microeconomic analyses of productivity for the UK have generally not been able to control for the quality of the labour input, primarily due to data availability, and yet the supply of suitably skilled labour is thought to be a major contributing factor ...
R Harris, C Robinson, Q Li
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The reshearch of the relationship between teachers communication skills and political skills [PDF]

, 2018
Bu araştırmanın amacı, okullarda görev alan öğretmenlerin, iletişim becerileri ile politik becerileri arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesidir. Araştırmada, İstanbul ili Avrupa Yakası'nda ki devlet okullarında görev yapan 399 öğretmenin görüşlerine ...
Karaca, Elif
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