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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
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Contributions of U.S. Crop Subsidies to Biofuel and Related Markets [PDF]

The U.S. crop subsidies provide incentives for farmers to expand feedstock production, which benefits the biofuel producers by lowering input costs. This study develops a general equilibrium model to analyze the effects of a reduction in the U.S.
Bayham, Jude, Devadoss, Stephen
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Negotiating Socially Optimal Allocations of Resources

, 2011
A multiagent system may be thought of as an artificial society of autonomous software agents and we can apply concepts borrowed from welfare economics and social choice theory to assess the social welfare of such an agent society. In this paper, we study
Endriss, U., Maudet, N., Sadri, F., Toni, F.   +3 more
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Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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To heat or to heal: the uneasy trade-off between energy and healthcare expenditure in Central Asia

Frontiers in Political Science
The influence of housing hazards on healthcare has become a serious problem, considering the past and present implications of international energy laws. In this empirical study, energy poverty was examined to reveal its impact on health-oriented spending
Sevara Tokhtaeva, Obidjon Khakimov, Bahtiyor Eshchanov, Aziz Magrupov   +3 more
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A note on the decentralization of Pareto optima in economies with public projects and nonessential private goods [PDF]

Welfare Economics;Public ...
Diamantaras, D., Gilles, R.P., Scotchmer, S.   +2 more
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Accounting for Substitution: Improving Estimates of GHG Reductions From Cattle‐Based Product Demand Shifts

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Estimates of reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from lower demand for cattle‐based products must account for substitution effects. This study collected data through two surveys—one on ground beef and another on dairy milk—to evaluate substitution effects and potential GHG reductions.
Brandon R. McFadden, Sara Gardner Hedgecock, Lawton L. Nalley, Alvaro Durand‐Morat, Aaron Shew, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

State and market

Ekonomski Vjesnik, 2014
The debate about the relationship between state and market, about their relative importance, does not cease to be topical, and there is no end of it in sight.
Ivan Ferenčak, Boris Crnković, Stjepan Rudan   +2 more
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Impact of NAFTA on U.S. and Mexican Sugar Markets

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2015
When NAFTA became fully implemented for sugar in 2008, Mexico became the leading sugar exporter into the United States, accounting for nearly 70% of U.S. imports in 2013.
Troy G. Schmitz, Karen E. Lewis
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An Overview of Welfare-to-Work Efforts [PDF]

Workfare, Wohlfahrtstheorie, Vereinigte Staaten, Welfare economics, United ...
Rebecca M. Blank
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