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Publikováno v:
Evaluation. 26:541-561
Policy research concerning developing countries must compete for scarce resources with alternative development investments, many of which are amenable to quantitative assessment of their impact and economic efficiency. This is especially true for pol
THE IMPACTS OF THE USDA BROADBAND LOAN AND GRANT PROGRAMS: MOVING TOWARD ESTIMATING A RATE OF RETURN
Autor:
Mitch Renkow, Ivan T. Kandilov
Publikováno v:
Economic Inquiry. 58:1129-1145
In this article, we evaluate the rate of return to government efforts to promote broadband. Specifically, we estimate the impact of USDA's broadband loan and grant programs on the average payroll per worker using zip code level data from the Zip Code
Publikováno v:
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 39:635-661
We evaluate the impact that the USDA’s low-cost broadband loan programs have on the U.S. agricultural sector. The broadband loan programs increase access to high-speed Internet in recipient communities, which can raise farm sales by increasing both
Autor:
Mitch Renkow, Robert Dinterman
Publikováno v:
Telecommunications Policy. 41:140-153
Since 2002 the USDA's Broadband Loan Program has directed more than $1.8 billion in subsidized loans to help expand broadband access in under-served rural communities. Program eligibility criteria included having a population of 20,000 or fewer, havi
Autor:
Oscar Pérez, Luis Colcombet, Gregory E. Frey, A. Nahuel Pachas, Santiago M. Lacorte, Hugo Enrique Fassola, Frederick W. Cubbage, Mitch Renkow
Publikováno v:
Land Economics. 88:639-657
Agroforestry, which has multiple inputs and outputs, would benefit from scrutiny of economic efficiency because levels of adoption have not met expectations. Previous literature estimated the efficiency of agricultural systems using data envelopment
Autor:
Gregory E. Frey, Sarah T. Warren, Mitch Renkow, Luis Colcombet, Oscar Pérez, Santiago M. Lacorte, A. Nahuel Pachas, Hugo Enrique Fassola, Frederick W. Cubbage
Publikováno v:
Agricultural Systems. 105:21-32
Farmers’ perceptions over time of an agroforestry technology can have an important impact on adoption and disadoption. Their perceptions, in turn, may be influenced by the type and scale of farm they own and the social networks they create. We exam
Autor:
Mitch Renkow
Publikováno v:
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. 40:145-157
I analyze the determinants of county-level broadband availability to gauge the extent to which the rural-urban broadband gap has narrowed and the factors that underlie that narrowing. Using data that have been collected by organizations tracking and
Autor:
Mitch Renkow, Derek Byerlee
Publikováno v:
Food Policy. 35:391-402
We review evidence on the impacts of CGIAR research published since 2000 in order to provide insight into how successfully the CGIAR Centers have been in pursuing the System’s core missions. Our review suggests that CGIAR research contributions in
Autor:
Mitch Renkow, Ivan T. Kandilov
Publikováno v:
Growth and Change. 41:165-191
We empirically evaluate whether participation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Broadband Loan Program, which began making loans in 2002, has had measurable positive impacts on zip code-level economic outcomes. Using difference in differences a
Publikováno v:
Journal of Agricultural Economics. 59:329-349
We propose an approach to model the derived demand for crop varieties among semi-subsistence farmers in a developing economy, and apply it to smallholder banana producers in Uganda. We model variety planting decisions as being composed of an extensiv