Scholarly Work - Agricultural Economics & Economics
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The Spatial-Dynamic Benefits from Cooperative Disease Control in a Perennial Crop
(2017-06)Introduction Diseases that damage productive agricultural crops impose significant costs both through foregone revenue from losses in yield, quality, and production and through expenditures undertaken to mitigate those ... -
Aspirations Failure and Formation in Rural Nepal
(2017-04)Aspirations, or a lack thereof, have recently gained the attention of economists as a behavioral constraint to future-oriented behavior and investment. In this paper we empirically test the theories of aspirations failure ... -
Revisiting the determinants of futures contracts success: the role of market participants
(2017-03)The Chicago Mercantile Exchange introduced a futures contract for distillers' dried grains (DDGs) in early 2010, but the market became inactive only four months after its inception. While many new futures contracts do not ... -
Booster Seat Effectiveness Among Older Children: Evidence From Washington State
(2017-08)Introduction The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that children as old as 12 years use a booster seat when riding in motor vehicles, yet little is known about booster seat effectiveness when used by older ... -
Targeted social protection in a pastoralist economy: case study from Kenya
(2016-08)"Social protection programmes are designed to help vulnerable populations-including pastoralists maintain a basic level of well-being, manage risk, and cope with negative shocks. Theory suggests that differential targeting ... -
Measuring the Effects of Natural Gas Pipeline Constraints on Regional Pricing and Market Integration
(2016-11)Natural gas pipeline capacity sets physical limits on the quantity of gas that can be moved between regions, with attendant price effects. We find support for the hypothesis of integrated regional markets. Using data on ... -
You Can't Drag Them Away: An Economic Analysis of the Wild Horse and Burro Program
(2016-01)Since 1971 wild horses and burros living on federal land have been legally protected, limiting removal from the range and stipulating restrictive conditions for transfer to private ownership. Periodic gathers prevent ... -
Forecasting a Moving Target: The Roles of Quality and Timing for Determining Northern US Wheat Basis
(2016-01)While nearly instantaneous commodity futures price information provides price forecasts for national markets, many market participants are interested in forecasts of local cash prices. Expected basis estimates are often ... -
On understanding inconsistent disciplinary behaviour in schools
(2015)Inconsistent disciplinary administration across schools can inequitably impact students' education access opportunities by separating certain students from familiar learning environments, especially in misconduct cases ... -
Why has for-profit colleges' share of higher education expanded so rapidly? Estimating the responsiveness to labor market changes
(2015-04)Over the last two decades, for-profit colleges (FPCs) have substantially increased their share of the higher education market. One potential explanation is that FPC sector may be more responsive to labor market changes ... -
Substance-abuse treatment and mortality
(2015-02)Drug-overdose deaths, which have more than doubled over the past decade, represent a growing public-health concern. Though substance-abuse treatment may be effective in reducing drug abuse, evidence for a causal effect of ... -
The Impacts of the Canadian Wheat Board Ruling on the North American Malt Barley Markets
(2014-07)The 2011 Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act deregulated Canadian grain markets and removed the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) as the sole buyer and seller of Canadian grain. We develop a rational expectations contract ... -
Pea in Rotation with Wheat Reduced Uncertainty of Economic Returns in Southwest Montana
(2015-01)Pea (Pisum sativum L.) is increasingly being rotated with wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in Montana. Our objective was to compare economic net returns among wheat-only and pea–wheat systems during an established 4-yr crop ... -
Evaluation of Crop Insurance Yield Guarantees and Producer Welfare with Upward Trending Yields
(2012-12)Actual Production History (APH) yields play a critical role in determining the coverage offered to producers by the Risk Management Agency’s yield-based crop insurance products. Using both county and individual insured ... -
Using a Finite Mixture Model of Heterogeneous Households to Delineate Housing Submarkets
(2012)We use a finite mixture model to identify latent submarkets from household demographics that estimates a separate hedonic regression equation for each submarket. The method is a relatively robust empirical tool to extract ... -
Using Quantile Regression to Measure the Differential Impact of Economic and Demographic Variables on Obesity
(2012-09)The fight against obesity in the U.S. has become a pressing priority for policy makers due to many undesirable outcomes including escalating health care costs, reduced quality of life and increased mortality. This analysis ... -
Yield Guarantee Determination and the Producer Welfare Benefits of Crop Insurance
(2013)Farm-level crop insurance guarantees are based on a small sample of historical yields. Two measures enacted by Congress, yield substitution and yield floors, are intended to mitigate the erratic nature of small samples in ... -
High Tunnels Are My Crop Insurance: An Assessment of Risk Management Tools for Small-Scale Specialty Crop Producers
(2013-08)High tunnels are being used by specialty crop producers to enhance production yields and quality, extend growing seasons, and protect crops from extreme weather. The tunnels are unheated, plastic-covered structures under ... -
The role of simulations in econometrics pedagogy
(2014-12)This article assesses the role of simulation methods in econometrics pedagogy. Technological advances have increased researchers' abilities to use simulation methods and have contributed to a greater presence of simulation-based ... -
Wet Laws, Drinking Establishments, and Violent Crime
(2014)Drawing on county-level data from Kansas for the period 1977-2011, we examine whether plausibly exogenous increases in the number of establishments licensed to sell alcohol by the drink are related to violent crime. During ...
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