Native American obesity: an economic model of the "thrifty
gene" theory.
Native American obesity is hypothesized to result from three
potential causes: (1) a genetic predisposition, or the "thrifty
gene," (2) a rational addiction to nutrients, and (3) dietary
adjustment . . .
Are household production decisions cooperative? Evidence on
pastoral migration and milk sales from northern Kenya.
Market-based development efforts frequently create opportunities to
generate income from goods previously produced and consumed within the
household. Production within the household is often . . .
Wolf, Martin. Why Globalization Works.(Book review)
Wolf, Martin. Why Globalization Works. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 2004, 416 pp., $30.00.
The word "globalization" emerged into the vocabulary of
the 1990s as an all-encompassing . . .
Jasanoff, Sheila and Marybeth Long Martello, eds. Earthly
Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance.(Book
review)
Jasanoff, Sheila and Marybeth Long Martello, eds. Earthly Politics:
Local and Global in Environmental Governance. Cambridge, MA and London,
UK: The MIT Press, 2004, 356 pp., $27.00, paperback.
. . .
Barrett, Scott. Environment and Statecraft.(Book review)
Barrett, Scott. Environment & Statecraft. Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press, 2003, 427 pp., $45.00 hardback.
The political economy of international environmental agreements
revolves around . . .
Aditya, Mattoo and Robert M. Stern, eds. India and the WTO.(Book
review)
Aditya, Mattoo and Robert M. Stern, eds. India and the WTO.
Washington DC: A Copublication of the World Bank and Oxford University
Press, 2003 388 pp., $35.00.
After four decades of following a . . .
Lele, U., ed. Managing a Global Resource: Challenges of Forest
Conservation and Development.(Book review)
Lele, U., ed. Managing a Global Resource: Challenges of Forest
Conservation and Development. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers,
2002, 312 pp., $29.95.
This book is an edited piece of six . . .
Slippage in the Conservation Reserve Program or spurious
correlation? A rejoinder.
Recently in this journal, Wu (2000) reported empirical findings
that slippage offsets some of the Conservation Reserve Program's
(CRP) environmental benefits. That is, he reported that farmers . . .
Specification and estimation of production functions involving
damage control inputs: a two-stage, semiparametric approach.
The appropriate model specification for the productivity assessment
of damage control inputs such as chemical pesticides or insect-resistant
crops is a subject of lively debate in agricultural . . .
Show me the money! the value of college graduate attributes as
expressed by employers and perceived by students.
A college graduate is anything but a homogeneous item. A college
graduate is best described as a collection of attributes; such as their
degree, grades, academic awards, internship experience, and . . .
Is site-specific yield response consistent over time? Does it
pay?
U.S. farmers have been slow to adopt variable rate applied (VRA)
fertilizers in cereal grain crops (Daberkow and McBride). This would
seem surprising, given that a majority of published studies . . .
Factors influencing Illinois farmland values.
Farmland accounts for approximately 80% of the value of all assets
in the farm sector (USDA, 2005) and thus, it is critically important to
understand factors influencing its value. Previous studies . . .
The effect of initial endowments in experimental
auctions.
When consumers purchase products at a store or in a conventional
auction outside of an experimental setting, the market usually consists
of a nonbarter exchange, where consumers pay money for a . . .
Rejecting new technology: the case of genetically modified
wheat.
Prior to the early 1920s, there was free trade in crop seeds
between the United States and Canada. This changed when Canadian policy
makers became concerned that devious wheat seed distributors . . .
A political economic analysis of U.S. rice export programs to
Japan and South Korea: a game-theoretic approach.
The Uruguay Round (UR) Agreement on agriculture has helped increase
United States and world rice trade since 1994 (Wailes, 2000). A major
benefit of the UR agreement for the U.S. rice industry has . . .
Developing experience-based premium rate discounts in crop
insurance.
The issue of providing premium rate discounts based on favorable
insurance experience has been in the economic literature since the early
1980s. (1) These premium rate discounts are usually . . .
The impact of coupled and decoupled government subsidies on
off-farm labor participation or U.S. farm operators.
International and domestic discussions about agricultural policy
are centered on concerns about the distortions that agricultural
subsidies can cause in agricultural markets (e.g., Boschwitz, . . .
Government payments and farm business survival.
Economists and policy makers have long been interested in how
government payments influence the growth and survival of farm businesses
(e.g., Leathers, 1992; Tweeten, 1993; Atwood, Watts, and . . .
Estimating the prevalence and cost of yield-switching fraud in
the federal crop insurance program.
Federal crop insurance is a core component of U.S. agricultural
policy. From its inception, however, policy makers have struggled with
two persistent problems: (1) higher than desired loss ratios . . .
Short- and long-run credit constraints in French agriculture: a
directional distance function framework using expenditure-constr
Production theory and finance developed along separate paths as if
production and financial decisions and their associated risks could be
neatly separated. Few production models directly integrate . . .
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