The U.S. organic food market recently experienced a rapid expansion, and yet this industry's potential to promote economic development remains largely unexplored. This paper proposes the introduction of organic-food agritourism as a sustainable development strategy for a distressed rural...

This paper extends the Becker-Tomes model of intergenerational educational mobility to a rural economy characterized by farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a micro-foundation for the widely used linear-in-levels...

This paper extends the Becker-Tomes model of intergenerational educational mobility to a rural economy characterized by farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a micro-foundation for the widely used linear-in-levels...