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Xi Chen acknowledges generous Doctoral Research Grant from the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell University and precious data set provided by the Development Strategy and Governance Division at IFPRI. Conference Travel Grant provided by the Department of Applied Economics and...
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PV-optimality in a capital-resource economy can imply decreasing utility over some portion of the time horizon. Various criteria have been proposed to maintain intergenerational equity defined as nondeclining utility, but these have some limitations and problems. This paper proposes a new...
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Migrant farmworkers are among the poorest members of the working class served by the U.S. public workforce investment system. The National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) provides job training and employment assistance to migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents. While stated goals...
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Replaced with revised version of paper on July 5, 2007.
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payments that go to large farms and high-income farm households. Farm commodity program payment limits were first introduced in … payment limits with a cap on the income farmers could earn and still receive farm program payments. The 2008 Farm Act … tightened payment limitations on some producers and replaced the total adjusted gross income (AGI) limit with separate lower …
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In the past 20 years the average scale of hog operations has expanded more than fourfold, and some of the new large-scale hog feeding operations have been opposed by residents in some communities. While the environmental effects of such production have been relatively well studied, less examined...
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We study how carbon dioxide (CO2) emission cuts affect income for 23 OECD countries over the 1980-2004 period. The … and the 2010 State of the Union Address by United States President Barack Obama. We start by deriving an income-CO2 … relationship based on a structural production function, which is a natural way to model the relationship among income, energy …
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of participation in land rental markets and to quantify the impact of renting land on households’ crop income and total … income. We find that land rental markets in Kenya enhance productivity and are equitable. The results are consistent across … participation on households’ crop income and total income. After controlling for the endogeneity of rental market participation and …
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, poverty severity, and the probability of household income falling below the US$2 and US$1.25/capita/day poverty lines. Results …
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