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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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The objective of this study is to test the widely‐held belief that the effect of education has a positive impact on … marginal effect of education on technology adoption is significantly larger for large farms for both GM crops and precision … farming and it is unexpectedly negative for GM crops at all levels of farm size. These results suggest that formal education …
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the traditional economic model for ordered data. Results indicate that higher education and an individual's perceived diet … include incorporating valid health education into the formal education system. …
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World grains prices dramatically increased between 2007 and 2008, but rice prices especially surged. Utilizing the much larger spike in rice prices than in wheat, this article compares the response of Indian households consuming rice as the staple grain to households consuming wheat. Households...
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to local charities and a Community Entrepreneurship Education fund that has been established to assist future students … Enterprise has generated more than $3,000 for the Entrepreneurship Education fund. Total donations to charities exceeded $27 …
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education, particularly higher education. It is vital that college graduates can question assumptions, synthesize information …
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understand the causes of these problems. The purpose of this paper is to examine what effect education has on household … step model that addresses endogenous selection into different levels of education. We find that investments made in … education can increase expenditure on fresh fruits and vegetables among food insecure households. Therefore policies that …
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Replaced with revised version of paper 07/26/07.
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characteristics, we examine gender differences in the wages of the graduates of the agribusiness department. The regression analysis … women still remain present. This study provides new empirical evidence on the gender wage gap in the labor market for the …
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