This paper investigates the motivations for local right-to-farm protection ordinances by estimating a logit model relating the adoption these ordinances to various political, economic and demographic factors previously found to affect the likelihood of passage of farmland preservation policies....

In this paper, we review published studies to assess the influence of time preferences on human health behaviour. Our review indicates that elicited discount rates for health have been found to be higher than those for money in both the social and private context. We discuss the importance of...