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This paper examines the linkages among agricultural total factor productivity, farm size, and farm household participation in the off-farm labor market for the Southeastern states for the period 1960-1996. We find evidence of a simultaneous relationship between productivity and measures of farm...
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We design an experiment to simulate how people make agricultural production decisions under three policy scenarios, each incorporating direct payments (DPs): (a) price uncertainty without countercyclical payments (CCPs); (b) price uncertainty with CCPs; and (c) price uncertainty, CCPs, and...
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liquidity constraints benefit from negative income shocks because they reduce land values, so these farms expand while liquidity …
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analysis uses models both allowing for and not allowing for village dummies(as cluster controls), the ratio of irrigated land … (as proxy for land quality), and other socio-economic variables such as households, belonging to caste groups, and family …
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This study presents evidence that contracting is positively associated with the scale of production for six major U.S. agricultural commodities. Specifically, contract producers tend to operate at a larger scale than do independent producers, and the likelihood of an operation contracting...
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This study estimates the determinants of the exit behavior in a concentrating industry that encounters industrial restructuring. The swine industry has experienced the dramatic change in many perspectives, especially farm size and operation numbers, in the United States in past decades and the...
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In dieser Arbeit werden demografische Determinanten der Energienachfrage der Haushalte in Deutschland untersucht, der Fokus liegt dabei auf der Nachfrage nach Energie im Bereich Raumwärme und im motorisierten Individualverkehr. Verwendet wird die Modelliermethode System Dynamics; Ergebnis der...
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The paper develops a large-scale overlapping generations model with production and a stochastic asset market. The role of a pension system and the impact of demographic change on real and financial markets are analyzed. In the absence of demographic change a reduction in contribution rates...
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Die Arbeit stellt eine quantitative Untersuchung der regionalen Spillover-Effekte f?r einen sowohl sachlich als auch regional abgegrenzten Bereich - n?mlich die Gymnasien am Beispiel der Region Augsburg - dar. Dieses Ph?nomen spielt in der ?konomischen Theorie des F?deralismus und der damit...
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Mit Einf?hrung der Riester-Rente im Jahr 2001 wurde in Deutschland der Weg in eine private, staatlich gef?rderte Altersvorsorge geebnet. Die Determinanten, die den Ab-schluss einer Riester-Rente beeinflussen, sind allerding nur rudiment?r erforscht. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde mit Daten des...
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