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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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Security Returns and Idiosyncratic Volatility in the Indian Stock Market [PDF]
International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management SciencesThe study explores the possibility of rewards for holding undiversified portfolios by investors and examines the impacts of idiosyncratic volatility on expected cross-sectional returns for the Indian stock market. For the analysis, the study utilized the
Priya Sawaliya, Sandeep Vodwal
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Does default risk matter for investors in REITs
International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 2020 We investigate the relationship between default risk and REIT stock returns. A default risk long-short investment strategy generates a return of 15% per annum.
Yezhou Sha +3 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 +1 more
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Exploring Consumer Willingness to Pay for Food Safety in Produce: A Focus on Small vs. Large Farms
Journal of Food ProtectionMultiple studies have investigated consumers’ willingness to pay premium prices for produce grown under conditions that are more regulated and safer than those of conventionally grown crops.
Autumn Stoll +3 more
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Assessing Government Subsidies for Reducing Pesticide Use: A Meta‐Analysis
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the efforts being made by governments to reduce pesticide use, subsidies are an important instrument to encourage farmers to adopt more sustainable practices. Yet, their effectiveness remains uncertain due to diverse designs and contexts.
Gaëlle Leduc +3 more
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On the Size Distribution of Macroeconomic Disasters [PDF]
In the rare-disasters setting, a key determinant of the equity premium is the size distribution of macroeconomic disasters, gauged by proportionate declines in per capita consumption or GDP.
Robert J. Barro, Tao Jin
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Return to Training and Establishment Size: A Reexamination of the Size-Wage Puzzle [PDF]
The paper reexamines the employer size-wage puzzle using NLSY79 data. The empirical results show that even for those who never receive any training from their employers, size-wage premium still exists and is quantitatively important.
Feng, Shuaizhang
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Is there a premium in the size of nations?
, 2013 This paper examines the size premium of nations. Using panel data for more than 200 countries over 50 years we estimate a size premium (in terms of being small) in a variety of key economic and socio-economic indicators of performance of countries. We find that small countries are richer, have larger governments, but are also more prudent in terms of ...
Damijan, Joze +2 more
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