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Influence of Course Delivery Method and Proctoring on Performance in Introductory Economics

Wachenheim, Cheryl J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

This work was published in the Review of Agricultural Economics. See Wachenheim, C.J. 2009. Final Exam Scores in … Introductory Economics Courses: Effect of Course Delivery Method and Proctoring. Review of Agricultural Economics 31(3), pp. 640-652. …

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Economics of controlling invasive species: a stochastic optimisation model for a spatial-dynamic process

Chalak, Morteza; Pannell, David J.; Polyakov, Maksym - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

Invasive species are significant threats to biodiversity, natural ecosystems and agriculture leading to large worldwide economic and environmental damage. Spread and control of invasive species are stochastic processes with important spatial dimensions. Most economic studies of invasive species...

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The Potential Effects of Climate Change on the Productivity, Costs, and Returns of U.S. Dairy Production

Key, Nigel D.; Sneeringer, Stacy E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

Climate change could affect the costs and returns of livestock production by altering the thermal environment of animals thereby affecting animal health, reproduction, and the efficiency by which livestock convert feed into retained products (especially meat and milk). In the United States,...

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Identifying the Impact of Weather Variation on Crop Yield in the Northern Plains

Jiang, Yong; Koo, Won W. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

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Producer Preference for Land-Based Biological Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture: An Economic Inquiry

Jiang, Yong; Koo, Won W. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

This study was intended to develop an understanding of producer preference for land-based carbon sequestration in agriculture. We conducted a mail survey to elicit producer choice to provide marketable carbon offsets by participating in different carbon credit programs characterized by varying...

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Gender Differences in Agricultural Economics

Lim, Siew; Wachenheim, Cheryl; Burbidge, Linda; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

Nationally, females account for less than one-third of the students in agricultural economics undergraduate programs …. We identified a gender gap in test performance between genders with women in general economics and agricultural economics … to expectations, interest in economics was not higher among women within business and economic majors than other women …

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Managing Weather Risk for Cotton in Texas High Plains with Optimal Temporal Allocation of Irrigation Water

Nair, Shyam; Wang, Chenggang; Knight, Thomas; Segarra, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

Texas High Plains (THP) is a major cotton producing region in the US with low rainfall and decreasing irrigation water availability. Hence stochastic rainfall poses considerable production risk in the region and developing strategies to maximize the average profit and minimize the year to year...

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Enhancing Critical Thinking in Economics Using Team-Based Learning

Espey, Molly - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

While critical thinking may be difficult to define, development of critical thinking skills is a principle goal of education, particularly higher education. It is vital that college graduates can question assumptions, synthesize information, evaluate evidence, draw inferences, and make reasoned...

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Economics of controlling invasive species: optimal control and stability of ecological-economic system

Chalak, Morteza; Ruijs, Arjan; Hemerik, Lia; van der … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

Natural enemies such as herbivores that are introduced to reduce invasive plants can spill over into nature, threaten indigenous species and impose significant costs. We develop a bioeconomic model to analyse the optimal control management strategy of an introduced herbivore that has spilled...

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Optimal control of a stochastic biological invasion

Chalak, Morteza; Pannell, David J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

Although there have been numerous studies on the economics of weed control, relatively few of these studies have …

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