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-fed agriculture (crops), livestock and use of rangeland (no-crops). Situation of rain-fed agriculture is very bad because of … fluctuation in amount of rainfall year to year. Livestock is sustainable source of income generation and use of rangeland is also …, reform of a farmland, rearing of livestock of better quality, and conservation of rangeland. The study concludes that …
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This paper is the analysis of farming and rangeland of rain-fed area of Tharparkar and it is desert area, but the … source of income due to shortage of rainfall. There is need of awareness of reforming of farmland and rangeland; fencing is …. Rangeland also should be conserved for the natural vegetation providing, fodder. Increase in livestock would lead Thar to agro …
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instrumentalism and realism. Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, represents a milestone in the development, and possibly the …
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This paper evaluates how R&D subsidies to the business sector are typically awarded. We identify two sources of ine_ciency: the selection based on a ranking of individual projects, rather than complete allocations, and the failure to induce competition among applicants in order to extract and...
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The purpose of this paper is, through a system of software, to analyze some theoretical aggregate models. We suggest to build a disaggregated model to compare its results with these of the aggregated one. The disaggregated model uses an analogical mechanism of the individual behaviors so that a...
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There is a substantial literature examining coordination in public goods games. We conducted an experiment to explore how varying patterns of thresholds affect the willingness of subjects to contribute to a public good. We had subjects play a multi-period game where each subject was allocated an...
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We conduct a proper test of the claim that people are overconfident, in the sense that they believe that they are better than others. The results of the experiment we present do not allow us to reject the hypotheses that the data has been generated by perfectly rational, unbiased, and...
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The public finance literature demonstrates the equivalence between consumption and labor income (wage) taxes. We construct an environment in which individuals make real labor-leisure choices and spend their earned income on real goods. We use this experimental framework to test whether a labor...
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This paper is a user's manual of the French software ECHANGE 2.0 - Marché sur réseau. This software organizes transactions between from 2 to 70 individuals connected in the same LAN. There is nine goods (leisure one) that operators can buy or sell according to their inventories of goods and...
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Principals can attempt to get agents to perform certain actions preferable to the principal by using ex post punishments or rewards to align incentives. Field data is mixed on whether, and to what extent, such informal incentive contracting (paradoxically) crowds out efficient solutions to the...
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