Economists broadly recognize that the U.S. rural economy is no longer a farm economy, yet policy makers often justify support for agriculture by stressing the sector’s importance to the rural economy. We use the historically high crop prices in the late 2000s to estimate the marginal effect of...

This paper estimates the elasticity of labor productivity with respect to employment density, a widely used measure of the agglomeration effect, in the Yangtze River Delta, China. A spatial Durbin model is presented that makes explicit the influences of spatial dependence and endogeneity bias in...

The aim of this study was to identify some trends in the functioning of public utilities under the new legislation in the field of waste management. The empirical data were derived from own surveys conducted in the municipalities. Amendments to the Act on maintaining cleanliness and order in...