This paper conducts several analyses to discuss about consumers' preference of rice brands and suggest a way to reduce the number that currently stands at about 1,700 in the Korean market. With data collected from 358 survey respondents, a conjoint analysis was conducted to identify consumers'...

Traditionally the definition and analysis of household well-being has focused on the main economic measures of income and wealth. However, there is now an increased interest within the wider economic literature in exploring those measures which contribute to household well-being which can extend...

Direct Government payments increase income in the farm sector by redistributing income from nonfarm to farm people. Direet payments arc largest at high income levels. Thus, low-income farm famifies may not benefit greatly from these payments. However, data compiled by the Internal Revenue...

Net farm income has shown a generally downward trend since the postwar highs of 1947 and 1948. Even with allowance for nonfarm sources of income and for declining numbers of farms, average farm family income has lagged behind the steadily rising levels of nonfarm family incomes. But the farmer...

Farm families have historically had lower money incomes and a less equal distribution of money income than nonfarm families. However, when net worth was included in a measure of economic well-being for farm families, the median level increased and inequality in the distribution decreased. The...

Establishment of parity prices by way of the unit of purchasing power approach—the concept on which, the parity formula is now based—may not adequately reflect parity of incomes and living standards for farmers. This is true especially if the norm or base period is far back in the...

The United States Department of Agriculture publishes regularly a variety of estimates that measure the overall income position of farming and farm people. During the last decade and a half, however, the tremendous growth in Federal income taxes has clouded the significance of many of the...