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Careers in Farming: Evidence from the Chilean Wine-grape Market

Jano, Pilar; Hueth, Brent - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

potential future hold-up, we hypothesize that long-term contracts represent the final stage in the farmers' "careers" after a …

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Factors Influencing Selection of Information Sources by Cotton Producers Considering Adoption of Precision Agriculture Technologies

Velandia, Margarita M.; Lambert, Dayton M.; Jenkins, Amanda - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009

Acknowledgements: The authors thank Cotton Incorporated and the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station for financial support

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Impact of Changes in Dietary Preferences on U.S. Retail Demand for Beef: Health Concerns and the Role of Media

Miljkovic, Dragan; Mostad, Daniel - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

dietary preferences, the retail demand for beef in the United States and to establish if media coverage of popular diets … (media frenzy) causes the change in retail demand for beef, or if it simply reports the facts about the changes in consumer … shifter for beef in the long run. In the short run, media serves as a trigger that will swing people to become followers of a …

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The Determination of National Retail and Wholesale Prices of Infant Formula

Levedahl, J. William; Reed, Albert J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

Changes in both retail and wholesale infant formula prices can affect the ability of WIC to supply infant formula to participants. This paper constructs a joint relationship that links national wholesale and retail infant formula prices to economic and policy variables. This joint framework...

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Gender Impacts of U.S. Immigration Policies

Richter, Susan M.; Taylor, J. Edward; Yunez-Naude, Antonio - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

Using Mexican survey data, a dynamic econometric model is estimated to test the effect of IRCA, NAFTA and border control expenditures on the flow of female and male migrant farm and non-farm labor from rural Mexico to the United States. We test for differential effects on male and female migration.

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SEASONAL LABOR CONSTRAINTS AND INTRA-HOUSEHOLD DYNAMICS IN THE FEMALE FIELDS OF SOUTHERN CAMEROON

Elad, Renata L.; Houston, Jack E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 1999

Women's agricultural production is modeled as a sequential switching regression process determined by men's clearing … labor capacity and women's harvest labor capacity. Results show that output was more often constrained by husband's clearing … labor. However, men's economic contribution to household consumption is inversely related to women's agricultural output. …

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Who Should be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income?

Fisher, Monica; Reimer, Jeffrey J.; Carr, Edward R. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

This study tests the null hypothesis that it is sufficient to interview only the household head to obtain accurate information on household income. Results show that using a husband’s estimate of his wife’s income does not produce statistically reliable results for poverty analysis....

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Bargaining-Power and Biofortification: The Role of Gender in Adoption of Orange Sweet Potato in Uganda

Gilligan, Daniel O.; Kumar, Neha; McNiven, Scott; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

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Gender, Farmer Attitudes and Adoption of Biofortified Food Crops in Sub Saharan Africa: The Case of Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato in Tanzania

Shikuku, Kelvin M.; Okello, Julius J.; Sindi, Kirimi; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

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The Sustainable Choice: How Gendered Difference in the Importance of Ecological Benefits Affect Production Decisions of Smallholder Cacao Producing Households in Ecuador

Useche, Pilar; Blare, Trent - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

Our research examines how the changing cultural norms and legal status in Ecuador have impacted women’s empowerment in … empowering Ecuadorian women (Suarez 2013). Thus, women’s involvement in cacao production would be an important indicator of women …’s status in rural Ecuador. To determine the value that men on women place on these nonmarket benefits and ability of women to …

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