The primary objective of this paper was to determine key factors impacting the frequency of consumer visits to Texas farmers’ markets measured in number of visits per month. Data obtained from in-person surveys administered in two farmers’ markets locations were used to determine consumer,...

The main objective of this research was to study what stimulates repeat buying behavior for ornamental plants by segmenting consumer demographics and other important variables in the purchasing decision for ornamental plants. Specifically, we looked at the number of transactions per month as a...

This paper aims to evaluate consumer’s awareness and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for two ornamental brands in Texas: Texas Superstar® and Earth-Kind®, after a Promotion on Place (POP) Program was developed by the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA). Consumer’s characteristics that are more...

For many decades, fresh fruits and vegetables enjoyed a reputation as the healthiest products full of essential vitamins, minerals, and other beneficial substances for a balanced diet. However, numerous recent food outbreaks associated with fresh produce have raised concerns on the mind of the...

This article is a unique attempt to discover the impact of exile on the most basic human necessity, food entitlement. We argue that exile from society followed by reintegration attempts cause mental and physical trauma, emotional distress, cultural shock, depletion of technical skills, political...

Most observed institutional arrangements, observed in governments, firms, and other organizations, acknowledge the effectiveness of imposing sanctioning institutions and monitoring policies to achieve particular goals. Nevertheless, less attention has been paid to the influences of the...

From the seminal work of Fehr and Gächter (2002), a consensus rises about the effectiveness of sanctioning institutions in promoting collective action. Most observed institutional arrangements, widespread in governments, firms and other organizations, acknowledge this feature and impose...

The long-term effects of recurrent natural disasters on economic development remain an open question in the existing literature. It is partly because recurrent disasters, unlike one-off catastrophic events, repeatedly strike the same geographic region and have cumulative effects in the long run....

As a measure of welfare, the growth of subjective well-being (SWB) is among the most critical aims in human society. However, self-reported well-being is potentially subject to significant misclassification errors. We employ a novel method from the measurement error literature, which relaxes the...

Although existing literature documents the negative impacts of ethnic diversity on charitable giving, whether and how religious diversity affect giving behaviors remain vague. Combing the religious diversity index and a nationwide survey in China, our analysis suggests that religious diversity...