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Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association's 2012 AAEA Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, August 12-14, 2012. This research was supported by a cooperative agreement with U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Economic Research Service. We thank...
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analyse the effect of farmer innovation on household welfare, measured by farm and household income, consumption expenditure …, and non-innovators had they innovated. We find that farmer innovation significantly improves both household income and … households by increasing household food consumption expenditure, reducing the length of food shortages, and decreasing the …
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-stage technology adoption framework as a basis for analyzing two key decisions made by the household regarding the production of ragi … these mills affect household‟s decision to adopt the milling services? In analyzing these questions, we pay attention to …
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according to the type of crop that the household sells and the position of children in the nutritional distribution. The results … provide insight into the eects of policies that pursue agricultural diversication and commercialization on the household well-being. …
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Despite extensive research and policy initiatives to increase the technical, financial, and managerial capacity of small drinking water systems, there has been little research focusing on understanding how consolidation can increase the overall capacity of the drinking water industry....
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In this paper a method to infer the value for consumers of the quality of supplied water is presented and applied. It uses concepts developed in the literature of environmental good valuation and the literature of equivalence scale measurement. It is applied to French data.
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The objective of this research was to estimate adults' willingness to pay to reduce health risks to their or other families's infants, the latter to test for altruism. A choice experiment was conducted by having adults pay for bottled water for infants to reduce infants' exposure to nitrates in...
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The present study advocates a simulation approach to analyze quantitatively the impact of having locally-based markets for price derivatives. A major result is that market outcomes do not appear to be sensitive to most of the underlying parameters of the model other than demand elasticity and...
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I consider a variation of Coasian bargaining as a policy instrument for internalizing intergenerational externalities. The variation involves appointing a contemporary party to represent the interests of the affected parties who are currently unable to represent themselves, either because they...
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Vaccines against several common foodborne pathogens are being developed and could substantially alter the policy tools available to address foodborne illness. However, little analysis is available to suggest how social welfare would be affected by these new vaccines. To address this void, we use...
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