Since the late 1980s, agriculture in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) has been under considerable adjustment pressure due to changing political, economic and institutional environments. These changes have been linked to the transition process, as well as the ongoing integration...

Experiments are often used to study individual decision‐making under controlled circumstances. Due to their low opportunity costs and high availability, university students are frequently recruited as the study population. Even though they are rather untypical with regard to many...

Obwohl regelmäßig 50% der Absolventen der Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften in Deutschland weiblich sind, wird nur ca. jedes zehnte landwirtschaftliche Unternehmen von einer Frau geleitet. Dies wirft zwei zentrale Fragen auf: Werden qualifizierte Frauen von den derzeitigen...

In the past decades, a great interest has emerged in understanding the nature of people's well-being beyond consumption opportunities. It is widely believed that happiness research based on self-reports on people's satisfaction with life has made a significant contribution to this understanding....

Replacements for corporate farm managers are increasingly hard to find. At the same time, a large pool of potential managers is hardly exploited: young female professionals. Focusing on the supply side of the labour market for managers, we investigate how gender-specific life aspirations impact...

In the past decades, a great interest has emerged in understanding the nature of people’s well-being beyond consumption opportunities. It is widely believed that happiness research based on self-reports on people’s satisfaction with life has made a significant contribution to this...

Most of the studies based on the New Empirical Industrial Organization (NEIO) approach use the industry data to estimate the degree of market power at the national level. Yet, only a few empirical studies presented the results that measure the degree of market power at the regional level and...