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De-Fizzing Schools: The Effect on Student Behavior of Having Vending Machines in Schools

Price, Joshua - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 41 (2012) 1

suspected link with childhood obesity and other negative health outcomes. While most studies in the existing literature have … focused on physical health outcomes, the current study seeks to analyze how providing soft drinks in vending machines affects …

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Environmental Risk Factors, Health and the Labor Market Response of Married Men and Women in the United States

Veronesi, Marcella - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2007

Cost-benefit analyses of health and safety regulations require estimates of the benefits of reducing pollution, and …. This paper examines the impact of married men and women’s health conditions potentially caused or exacerbated by …

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Assessing the economic costs of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease on Brittany: A dynamic computable general equilibrium analysis

Rault, Arnaud; Gohin, Alexandre - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

Visual presentation for the 2012 IAAE triennal conference.

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Pesticide or Wastewater, Which One is Bigger Culprit for Acute Health Symptoms among Vegetable Growers in Pakistan’s Punjab

Abedullah; Ali, Haseeb; Kouser, Shahzad - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

Past studies highlight harmful effects of using pesticides and untreated wastewater on farmers’ health in agriculture …. However, none of the studies explore these sources to determine the magnitude of deleterious health effects simultaneously … quantify pesticide and untreated wastewater induced health symptoms among vegetable growers. A sample of 830 vegetable growers …

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Body Weight and Labour Market Outcomes in Post-Soviet Russia

Huffman, Sonya Kostova; Rizov, Marian - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

. However, having a BMI above 28.3 increases the number of days missing work due to health problems for men. Overall, we find …

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The U.S. Tobacco Buyout: A Partial and General Equilibrium Analysis

Schmitz, Andrew; Haynes, D.J.; Schmitz, Troy G.; … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 45 (2013) 03

This article analyzes the impact of removing the U.S. tobacco program in both a partial and general welfare economics framework. In a partial-equilibrium framework, a consumer taxfunded quota buyout can result in producer gains, consumer losses, net losses resulting from higher prices, and...

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Theoretical conception of the qualitative analysis about care farming in Austria and the Netherlands

Renner, Renate - In: Rural Areas and Development 6

The aim of this paper is to describe the conception of the research especially the theoretical conception. Furthermore, the research focus will be exemplifi ed through the description of fi rst empirical results. Care farming can be named innovation because taking on social duties is...

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Ensuring Adequate Early Childhood Development for Uganda’s Children

Kasirye, Ibrahim - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2012

availability; poor child nutritional health status; and the limited enrolment of children in Early Childhood Development Centres. …

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Off-Farm Employment in Agribusiness: A Policy Perspective For Child Care And Family Support Programs

Stegelin, Forrest E.; Stegelin, Dolores - Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky - 1990

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Hazardous Agrochemicals, Smoking, and Farmers’ Differences in Wage-Risk Tradeoffs

Nastis, Stefanos A.; Michailidis, Anastasios - 2010

is self-reportedjob risk of low back pain, the most recurring health risk faced by farmers. The job-relatedrisky activity ….e., individualdifferences in other health-related activities are influential determinants of the observedwage-risk tradeoff.Keywords: …

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