This paper assesses consumers’ acceptance of nutritionally enhanced vegetables using a series of auction experiments administered to a random sample of adult consumers. Evidence suggests that consumers are willing to pay significantly more for fresh produce with labels signaling enhanced...

This paper examines women’s and men’s decisions to participate in physical activity and to attain a healthy weight. These outcomes are hypothesized to be related to prices of food, drink and health care services and products, the respondent’s personal characteristics (such as education,...

Environmental groups have be- food products other than those that norcome the chief antagonists toward agricultural bio- mally carry allergens (See Friends of the technology innovations. They demonstrate and dis- Earth 2001; Greenpeace International 2001). seminate private information with the...

Most studies utilizing experimental auction mechanisms to elicit consumers’ willingness to pay are designed to avoid potential substitution or demand-curve effects that may influence bid prices. However, previous research and auction designs have not considered the potential impact on bid...

Huffman, W. E. "Changes in the Labour Intensity of Agriculture: A Comparison of California, Florida and the USA," in J.L. Findeis, A.M. Vandeman, J.M. Larson and J.L. Runyan, The Dynamics of Hired Farm Labour: Constraints and Community Responses, New York, NY: CABI Publishing, 2002, pp. 25-40.

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In this paper we fit stochastic frontier production functions to data of Chinese farms grouped into each of four regions--North, Northeast, East, and Southwest--over 1995-1999. These frontier production functions are shown to have statistically different structures, and the elasticities provide...

The environment in which universities in the United States and some other countries operate has been changing, creating discussion of privatization of public universities. This paper examines the implications for US universities of greater access to royalties for federally funded, private-goods...

The paper presents an econometric model of dynamic agricultural input demand functions that includes research based technical change and autoregressive disturbances and fits the model to data for a set of state aggregates pooled over 1950-82. The methodological approach is one of developing a...