This report summarizes the financial and production records of 16 dairy farms across the Upper Peninsula (UP) of Michigan. To be included, the farms must have produced at least 50 percent of gross cash farm income from milk and dairy animal sales. The records came from Michigan State...

This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...

There are a number of estimation methods available to the econometrician. They range in complexity from least squares, which takes only a few minutes with pencil and paper for a simple problem, to full information maximum likelihood, which requires a large-capacity electronic computer for...

En el presente trabajo se calcula el valor de la cuota para in grupo de productores lecherose en Asturias, Para ello se estima una funcion de costes variables usando datos de panel de 71 explotaciones lechuras en el periodo 1993-1998. Una caracteristica improtante del modelo empleado es que...

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