This work introduces two novel methods in measuring income inequality. The first uses publicly available tax summary data to improve estimates of top-coded income in the Current Population Survey. The second is a time-period agnostic and income-level agnostic measure of inequality that relates...

According to the USDA, there were 52.7 million marketings of cattle through live and internet auction markets and other venues in 2005. With the national average herd size at 43 head, most producers have limited bargaining power when it comes to marketing and auctioning their cattle. This has...

The Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC) at Texas A&M University develops and maintains data to simulate 91 representative crop, dairy, and livestock operations in major production areas in 28 states. The chief purpose of this analysis is to project the economic viability of those farms by...