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Publikováno v:
Agricultural Economics. 51:623-638
We examine how competition among crop insurance agents affects coverage choice in the federal crop insurance program. Agents may influence producers’ insurance decisions to maximize their total compensation. We develop a theoretical model of produc
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Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol 37, Iss 2, Pp 301-320 (2012)
Government programs that help agricultural producers manage risk may have environmental consequences. In recent years, premium subsidies for crop insurance have been increased substantially to encourage greater producer participation. Using detailed,
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https://doaj.org/article/bd635b348abc46529ec00a3d32aa6931
Autor:
Philip R. Wandschneider, S. Karuaihe
Publikováno v:
Development Southern Africa. 35:466-479
The majority of the population living in the informal settlements of Windhoek, Namibia, have limited access to public municipal services. This paper integrates results from a sample of 97 randomly ...
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Ecological Economics. 122:71-78
Current behavioral research in conservation adoption has been unable to clearly identify the key characteristics of successful adoption. Most conservation studies employ a theory which focuses on one feature (e.g., profits, attitudes, information, no
Publikováno v:
Economic Inquiry. 54:819-834
I. INTRODUCTION In the United States, over 90,000 trade and professional associations existed in 2009 (American Society of Association Executives [ASAE] 2014). The association members contribute time, expertise, financial support, and other resources
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 37(1):107-129
Excess returns to producers insured by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation can arise due to asymmetric information or from the design of the insurance programs themselves. Using unique, unit-level crop insurance contract data for major crops such
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South African Journal of Economics. 80:264-286
For water policy to be effective, policy makers must know how water users perceive and respond to changes in water prices. However, it is not uncommon for water prices faced by consumers to be unclear. In Windhoek, Namibia, the marginal and average w
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Food Policy. 36:239-249
This paper places the modern spread of diet-related chronic disease in the United States within the context of more than a century of innovation in food processing technology, discovery in nutrition science, and corrective policy measures aimed at im
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The Journal of Socio-Economics. 40:43-52
Life expectancy, literacy rates, per capita income, mortality and morbidity statistics have been widely employed in empirical analyses to construct various indices of quality of life (QOL). The reason why so many indices of well-being exist in the li
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Land Economics. 86:585-608
Anaerobic digestion technology addresses environmental issues of waste disposal and greenhouse gas emission reduction. This paper examines attitudes toward adoption of this conservation technology on dairy farms. To specify an appropriate dependent v