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Do Consumers Value Diversity in Agriculture? A Choice Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farm ownership in the US today is racially and ethnically homogeneous. Diverse farmers and ranchers make up less than 10% of all producers, they tend to be less financially stable and have tighter profit margins. In the past few years, both government and industry programs have aimed to increase the participation and profitability of diverse ...
Maria Kalaitzandonakes, Jared P. Hutchins, Gerald Mashange   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Welfare Biology as an Extension of Biology. Interview with Yew-Kwang Ng

Relations, 2015
Yew-Kwang Ng is Winsemius professor in economics at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and emeritus professor at Monash University. He has been a member of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia since 1980, and in 2007 received the highest ...
Max Carpendale
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Strategic Advocacy for Higher Education Research: Insights From US Agricultural Experiment Station Funding

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amidst dwindling state funding and the legislative withdrawal from public university research support, a heightened political process shapes the allocation of scarce tax dollars. This article explores how advocacy within the political process influences funding support for higher education from state legislatures.
Gregory M. Perry, Trey Malone, Jay T. Akridge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing Cost‐Effective Carbon Payments to Induce Cellulosic Feedstock Production for Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Perennial bioenergy crops, such as miscanthus and switchgrass, and crop residues have the potential to scale up sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production and mitigate carbon emissions. However, high establishment costs, delayed returns, and risk–return profiles that diverge from those of conventional crops can hinder incentives to adopt ...
Fahd Majeed, Madhu Khanna, Ruiqing Miao
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Fiscal Illussion As Public Economy Failure: A Study on the Aegean Region

Maliye Çalışmaları Dergisi
With the fiscal illusion, which is seen as a failure of the public economy, individuals cannot fully and accurately perceive their tax burden. As a result, more public good services are demanded and expenditures increase. The excessive increase in public
Ulvi Sandalcı, İnci Sandalcı
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Why is economics so fragile?

Revue de la Régulation, 2011
The association between a crisis in economics and the economic crisis, spontaneously drawn by the media and the public, is a fact which calls for explanation. We begin by identifying what the public and the media perceive as “economics”.
José Castro Caldas, Vítor Neves, José Reis   +2 more
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Dollars for Drops: Abatement Cost of Water for Irrigation in the Colorado River Basin

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Colorado River is a lifeline for more than 40 million people in the western United States. However, with climate change diminishing snowpacks in the Rocky Mountains and increasing demands from agriculture and urban areas, the river's flow has become insufficient to meet all the competing needs.
Shahin Bahrami, Mani Rouhi Rad, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.   +2 more
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The Financial Status and Local Credit Market Conditions of U.S. Farms Engaged in Multiple Borrowing

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural producers often borrow from multiple lenders, raising concerns about credit risk and monitoring. We construct detailed farm‐level measures of how debt is distributed across lenders and examine how farm financial status and the physical presence of local lenders are linked to this practice.
Sylvanus Gaku, Jennifer Ifft, Brady Brewer, Luke Byers   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public health and economics: a marriage of necessity

Journal of Public Health Research, 2012
With resources always scarce limited resources have to be targeted at those interventions, prevention and cure, that give the greatest population health gain at least cost.
Alan Maynard
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Behavioral Economics and Government Purchases – Some Insights into the Fiscal Psychology of Public Expenditure

International Journal of Public Finance, 2020
Behavioral economics have increased acceptance in public finance, thus challenging the neoclassical approach to human decision-making. However, so far, behavioral economics' fundamental results on cognitive heuristics, illusions, and biases with respect
Thomas Döring, Ruven D. Oehmke
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