Statistical analysis of rainfall insurance payouts in southern
India.
Exposure to drought among rural households in India and other
countries should, at least in principle, be largely diversifiable. This
is because rainfall is exogenus to the household and not likely . . .
Weather index insurance for agriculture and rural areas in
lower-income countries.
Innovations in risk transfer for natural disasters in lower-income
countries, in particular weather index insurance products, can be used
to shift various weather-related risks. This article . . .
Economic incentives for managing infectious animal disease:
discussion.
Concern for animal disease is as old as humans' domestication
of animals to provide food and power for farming and transportation. For
most of human history, this concern arose largely from the . . .
Economics and ecology of managing emerging infectious animal
diseases.
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) greatly concern wildlife
conservationists and livestock producers, with pathogen transmission
between wildlife and livestock of particular concern (Dobson . . .
Biosecurity and spread of an infectious animal disease.
Diminishing infectious animal disease prevalence amounts to a
global public good. This has in part motivated the long tradition of
public involvement in infectious animal disease control. . . .
Estimating within-herd preventive spillovers in livestock disease
management.
Farm managers take biosecurity precautions against diseases that
are not present and mitigate the effects of diseases that are present.
In doing so, managers weigh the costs of prevention, illness, . . .
The effects of moratoria on residential development: evidence
from a matching approach.(Adequate Public Facility Ordinance )
During the last decade, the state of Maryland was one of the
fastest growing states in the United States. As a consequence, the state
has implemented an aggressive and comprehensive "smart . . .
Impact of designated preservation areas on rate of preservation
and rate of conversion: preliminary evidence.
Concerns about farmland loss and suburban sprawl motivated 124
government entities to institute preservation programs at an overall
cost of $3.723 billion (American Farmland Trust 2005a, 2005b). . . .
Open space, forest conservation, and urban sprawl in Maryland
suburban subdivisions.(Maryland. Forest Conservation Act)
Rapidly urbanizing jurisdictions face substantial challenges in
maintaining the provision of public goods like preservation of open
space and other scenic amenities. Numerous empirical studies . . .
The trade-off between private lots and public open space in
subdivisions at the urban-rural fringe.
In many communities, particularly those on the urban-rural fringe,
most housing is located in subdivisions. Increasingly, those
developments are subject to "clustering" rules, in which
houses must . . .
New estimates of the demand for food safety: discussion.
Information on demand for food safety is needed to determine
whether the benefit of safety regulations exceed the costs, and it is in
this area that the papers in this session make an . . .
WTP estimates of the societal costs of U.S. food-borne
illness.
The U.S. federal government has a prominent role in regulating food
safety. Estimates of the societal costs of food-borne illness are an
important input for regulators setting risk-reduction . . .
Valuing lives saved from safer food--a cautionary tale
revisited.
Prioritizing risk-reduction strategies to maximize net benefits
requires information on the monetary value people assign to safer food
(Roberts 1986). The challenge is that individual behavior . . .
Willingness to pay for food safety: sensitivity to duration and
severity of illness.
There is a mismatch between the incidence and economic valuation of
food-borne illness. The vast majority of cases result from exposure to
microbial pathogens (e.g., E. coli O157, Salmonella) and . . .
Causes of and constraints to agricultural and economic
development: discussion.(VERS )(Conference news)
This session revisits some of the most well-known propositions of
the agricultural development literature, such as
* Agricultural productivity growth must precede or accompany
economic . . .
Consistency or conflict in OECD agricultural trade and aid
policies.(Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)
In advance of the Cancun meeting of trade ministers convened in
September 2004 to further the Doha Development Agenda (DDA), the heads
of the IMF, OECD, and World Bank declared, "We need a . . .
Food aid and poverty.
One of the primary objectives of food aid is poverty alleviation.
This is true independent of the type of food aid (see Barrett 2007 for
an excellent overview of the various types of U.S. food . . .
Agriculture in economic development: primary engine of growth or
chicken and egg?(Principal Paper Sessions)
Two polar views regarding the centrality of agriculture's role
in the process of economic growth are prominent in the literature of
economic development. At one pole, a substantial literature . . .
Economics of spatial-dynamic processes.
I am honored to have the opportunity to give the AAEA Fellows
Address this year. I would like to talk about a class of problems that
are becoming more prevalent and yet have not received much . . .
The political economy of public goods: why economists should
care.(General Sessions)
The intent of this article is to encourage economists to analyze
questions of public involvement in the array of public and private
activities where public participation is an issue. The scope . . .
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