Labor supervision and institutional conditions: evidence from
Bicol rice farms.
Labor markets in all economies are subject to transaction costs
associated with recruiting and monitoring workers. These transaction
costs typically arise due to information problems of two types: . . .
The dynamics of individuals' fat consumption.(composition of
fat intake from meat products to dairy and fish products)
In the past few decades, consumers have become increasingly aware
of the link between their lifestyle choices and the risk of
noncommunicable diseases such as heart ailments and cancer . . .
Dynamic random utility modeling: a Monte Carlo analysis.
Recently, fisheries management has undergone a paradigm shift as
fisheries are no longer viewed as homogeneously distributed resources,
but rather as heterogeneously distributed metapopulations . . .
Land market imperfections and agricultural policy impacts in the
new EU Member States: a partial equilibrium analysis.
In 2004, eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs),
which fifteen years ago were still under tight Communist rule, joined
the European Union (EU). At least two more CEECs are expected to . . .
Do formula or competitive grant funds have greater impacts on
state agricultural productivity?(State Agricultural Experiment
Sta
The federal government in 1887 established the State Agricultural
Experiment Station (SAES) system to conduct original research and verify
experiments bearing directly on the U.S. agricultural . . .
Ph.D. recipients by institution, 2005.
University of Alberta
Getu Hailu Ross Mitchell Jeji Varghese
The University of Arizona
Sam Abdoul
Auburn University
Andres Jauregui Mostafa Malki Yuqing Zheng
University of California . . .
Ph.D. recipients by subject, 2005.
Agricultural and Food Policy: regulation, taxation, welfare
Gillaume, Gruere, University of California, Davis, "Labeling
Policies and International Trade of Genetically Modified Food."
Hao, . . .
Duram, Leslie A. Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works.
Duram, Leslie A. Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works. Lincoln,
NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005, 250 pp.
The book provides a comprehensive discussion of the organic farming
paradigm . . .
Just, Richard E., Darrell L. Hueth, and Andrew Schmitz. The
Welfare Economics of Public Policy: A Practical Approach to Project
Just, Richard E., Darrell L. Hueth, and Andrew Schmitz. The Welfare
Economics of Public Policy: A Practical Approach to Project and Policy
Evaluation. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Pub. Co., 2004, . . .
Driesen, David M. The Economic Dynamics of Environmental
Law.(Book review)
Driesen, David M. The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003, 268 pp.
We have here an effort to bring some fresh insights to the field of
environmental policy and . . .
Hayami, Yujiro. Development Economics, 2nd ed.(Book
review)
Hayami, Yujiro. Development Economics, 2nd ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press, 2001, 339 pp. Paperback, ISBN 0-19-924397-2.
This book is the second edition of Hayami's comprehensive
treatise . . .
Kirp, David I. Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The
Marketing of Higher Education.(Book review)
Kirp, David I. Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The
Marketing of Higher Education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
2004, 328 pp., $17.95.
It is certainly true that with the . . .
Better technology, better plots, or better farmers? Identifying
changes in productivity and risk among Malagasy rice farms: a
co
In a recent article, Barrett, Moser, McHugh, and Barison (2004)
(BMMB) shed light on the decision to adopt a new system of rice
intensification (SRI) on Malagasy rice farms. It was concluded that . . .
Factors associated with students' academic motivation in
agricultural economics classes.(Report)
A study of undergraduates at Texas A&M University, Purdue
University, and the University of Florida reveals that students viewing
grades as a contributor to career success tend to be more . . .
A sample selection approach to censored demand systems.
The multivariate sample selection model is extended to a nonlinear
equation system with partial selection and applied to household meat
consumption in China. Elasticity estimates differ from those . . .
No news is good news: stochastic parameters versus media coverage
indices in demand models after food scares.
We develop a stochastic parameter approach to model the
time-varying impacts of food scares on consumption, as an alternative to
the inclusion of news coverage indices in the demand function. . . .
Rivalry in price and variety among supermarket retailers.
Recent theoretical models of retail competition suggest that
product heterogeneity is critical to retail price and variety
strategies. This article provides empirical evidence on . . .
Pricing weather insurance with a random strike price: the Ontario
ice-wine harvest.
Weather insurance within the agricultural sector has been limited
by the difficulty in defining the appropriate weather event and in
pricing the product. We develop a new pricing method for . . .
Livestock in China: commodity-specific total factor productivity
decomposition using new panel data.
Studies of total factor productivity (TFP) in livestock production
are rare, but when available provide useful information especially in
the context of developing countries such as China where . . .
The potential impact of tobacco biopharming: the case of human
serum albumin.
Biopharming stands to significantly expand the uses of many
agricultural crops. This article examines the potential size and
distribution of welfare gains from biopharming transgenic tobacco as . . .
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