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Do Universal Free School Meals Improve the Dietary Quality of Food‐At‐Home Purchases?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since 2014, the number of schools offering universal free meals to all enrolled children without requiring annual meal applications has increased meaningfully. Using USDA's Purchase to Plate Crosswalk, a difference‐in‐differences framework, and a nationwide consumer panel, the effect of universal‐free‐meal exposure on the diet quality of food ...
Xueying Ma, Andres Cuadros‐Meñaca, Michael R. Thomsen   +2 more
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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

A governação urbana inglesa em transformação: Um paradoxo de descentralização e (re)centralização

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2007
This article addresses the changing nature of English urban governance since 1997 and the paradoxical situation that has seen the operation of simultaneous processes of decentralisation and (re)centralisation.
Rob Atkinson, Ian Smith, David Sweeting
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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
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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
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پەیوەندی سیاسی لە حه‌وكه‌مه‌ی ته‌شاروكی حیزبه‌كان و جه‌ماوه‌ر لە حه‌وكه‌مه‌ی ته‌شاروكی

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
پەیوەندی سیاسی لە حه‌وكه‌مه‌ی ته‌شاروكیدا یەکێکە لەگرنگترین بوارەکانی پەیوەندیکردن و یەکێکە لەجۆرەکانی زانستە کۆمەڵایەتییەکان و یەکێکە لەجۆرەکانی و پەیوەندیكردنی نێوان جۆرەکانی دیکەی زانستە کۆمەڵایەتییەکاندا، ئەم جۆرە لێک نزیک و ڕەگدارن کە زەحمەتە ...
Amanj Najmadin Abdulghafur, Sabah Subhi Haider   +1 more
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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

المعوقات الاقتصادية والمالية والادارية للامركزية الادارية في اقليم كوردستان – العراق بعد (2014)

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
الملخص :     بات أسلوب اللامركزية الإدارية من أهم وأنجح الأساليب التنظيمية للوحدات الإدارية في الدول المعاصرة البسيطة منها والمركبة، ولهذا الأسلوب الإداري في التنظيم علاقة طردية بمسألة تعزيز آليات ووسائل الديمقراطية وتلبية متطلبات حقوق الإنسان ...
Rafaat Abdullah Haji , Abdal Joma Abdullrahman   +1 more
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U.S. Agriculture, Biofuel Markets, and Trade: Challenges and Opportunities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an enhanced Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model (GTAP‐BIO), this study assesses how the expansion in demand for Electric Vehicles (EVs) and the reduction in exports of agricultural products induced by trade disputes negatively affect US agriculture.
Rayan Wolf, Farzad Taheripour
wiley   +1 more source

The system functions of direct democracy - a ranking of 103 countries in the world

Frontiers in Political Science
We introduce a new framework of the functions of direct democracy within a democratic political system. These are: (1) channeling political input into the decision-making arenas by circumventing organized interests (input function), (2) channeling ...
Eike-Christian Hornig, Christian Frommelt   +1 more
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