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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou +3 more
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The political system through a partisan lens: Within-person changes in support for political parties precede political system attitudes. [PDF]
Br J Soc Psychol, 2023 Satherley N, Osborne D, Sibley CG.
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Small Business Owners Support Reforming U.S. Elections [PDF]
, 2014 Politicians talk a lot about how small businesses are the backbone of the economy. Yet small business owners often feel at a disadvantage when it comes to the political process.
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Political Activity of Women and Men – the Psychosocial Determinants of Conventional Political Activity [PDF]
, 2018 Political activity is a type of social activity displayed by citizens. Observations and research indicate that gender can be a factor which conditions its degree and forms.
Kuświk, Justyna +2 more
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen +2 more
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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in a polarized political system: Lessons from the 2020 election. [PDF]
Elect Stud, 2022 Miller JD, Woods LT, Kalmbach J.
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, 2015 The November 2014 Australian State of Victoria election was the first statutory political election worldwide at State level which deployed an end-to-end verifiable electronic voting system in polling places. This was the first time blind voters have been
Burton, Craig +2 more
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Foreword: The Political Geography of Race Data in the Criminal Justice System [PDF]
, 2003 Several months ago, there was a heated discussion on CrimProf, the listserv for criminal law professors, about the disproportionate representation of minorities in the criminal justice system.
Taslitz, Andrew E.
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli +2 more
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