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The paper considers interaction among participation in the Food Stamp Program (FSP), food security status and the composition of food expenditures. A Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System with a bootstrapping twoï¾–step method of estimation is applied to data from the Current Population...

While one of the main agricultural policy objectives of formerly planned economies is the maximization of agricultural output under a variety of domestic and international constraints, the current changes in incentive structures may be having a mitigating impact on environmental degradation....

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At the center of the debates on welfare reform is whether the incentives-based systems help poor families move out of poverty into jobs. Recent data from the first Survey of Program Dynamics longitudinal and the 1998 experimental data files allow evaluation of the interaction among the Food...

Former recipients in nonmetro areas in Iowa were more likely to return to cash assistance in the first two quarters after leaving, but the difference disappears as time passes. Those in metro areas were more dependent on welfare, that is, they were less likely to have earnings or child support.

The use of antimicrobial feed additives (AFAs) in animal rations has come under review recently in Europe and the U.S. A recent evaluation of the economic impact of a ban on AFAs on the U.S. pork industry suggests that on average changes in productivity and fixed costs would result in increased...