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Nonlinear effects of conservation reserve program rental rates on land enrollment under varying crop price regimes Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Eugene Adjei, Jingfang Zhang, Wendiam Sawadgo, Wenying Li
We use a panel smooth transition regression model to investigate the influence of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) rental rates on land enrollment under different crop price regimes. We employ a flexible estimation technique, allowing the CRP rental rate incentives to vary with crop prices, and construct a Hausman‐type instrumental variable to address endogeneity. Simulations are conducted to assess
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A mixed methods assessment of technical and financial assistance to small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises in Kenya's food sector Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Eduardo Nakasone, Maria Porter, Mywish K. Maredia, Andrew Jones, David Tschirley
We study the impact of providing consulting services and major capital infusions to small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in the food sector in Kenya. We exploit a quasi‐experimental design that matches treated firms with comparable firms that applied for the same support but were just short of scoring sufficient points to receive this support. Using mixed methods, this quantitative analysis is
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Adapting the USDA Food Security Survey Module for use with college students: Can we improve model fit? Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Brenna Ellison, Cassandra J. Nguyen, Matthew P. Rabbitt, Brian French, Meg Bruening
The USDA Food Security Survey Module (FSSM) is the gold standard for measuring food security; however, research suggests that college students may respond to FSSM items differently than the general population. Students may have a varied portfolio of food and financial resources (thus, complicating interpretations of “money”) to acquire food. We conducted a randomized control trial to test whether a
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An analysis of tax benefits by race and ethnicity for farm households Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Tia M. McDonald, Ron Durst
This research simulates the impact on tax liabilities of five tax provisions that provide benefits to farm households by race and ethnicity. Using pooled data from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (2017–2021), we find that, relative to White non‐Hispanic principal operator farm households, certain business tax benefits are less prevalent and of lower value for Hispanic, African American
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Household resilience and coping strategies to food insecurity: An empirical analysis from Tajikistan Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Bekhzod Egamberdiev, Ihtiyor Bobojonov, Lena Kuhn, Thomas Glauben, Kamiljon Akramov
By applying Resilience Index Measurement Analysis to data from Tajikistan, this paper measures food insecurity resilience capacity. Another objective of this paper is to construct and integrate coping strategies into resilience discussions. The final objective is to analyze the role of resilience capacity and coping strategy in food security with an Instrumental Variable approach. Our results generally
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A comparison of operator and financial characteristics of U.S. beef cow-calf producers by race Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Christopher G. Davis, LaPorchia A. Collins, Gailda Pitre Davis
This study compares financial characteristics of U.S. beef cow-calf farms by race and highlights potential challenges faced by minority farms based on the historical context in which they operate. We find that, in 2018, factors related to farm size and inefficiencies in generating returns contributed to racial disparities in the profitability of beef cow-calf farms. Relative to White cow-calf farms
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Does the reference period matter when evaluating the effect of SNAP on food insecurity? Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Colleen Heflin, James P. Ziliak
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the cornerstone food assistance program in the United States and has been shown to reduce the risk of food insecurity. Most research on the causal effect of SNAP on food insecurity relies on the 12-month food insecurity scale along with usage of SNAP at any point during the year. However, recent social surveys ask about experiences with food insecurity
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Improving nutrition through blended finance and impact investing in small and medium enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Travis J. Lybbert, Stella Nordhagen, Stephen A. Vosti, Lynnette M. Neufeld
Persistent malnutrition and food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa demand creative experimentation beyond conventional financing and interventions. Impact investing merits consideration. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) shape diets and health outcomes in Africa and may present an investment opportunity. The Nutritious Food Financing Facility (N3F) aims to harness blended impact investing for improved
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The co-occurrence of food insecurity and other hardships in Australia Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Ferdi Botha, David C. Ribar, Chandana Maitra, Roger Wilkins
Food insecurity has many causes, including insufficient incomes, competing expenditure needs, and inadequate facilities to store and prepare food. The characteristics that contribute to food insecurity may also contribute to other co-occurring hardships. This article examines people's experiences of food insecurity, poor financial wellbeing, poor physical health and long-term disability, low social
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Women farmers and community well-being under modeling uncertainty Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Claudia Schmidt, Steven C. Deller, Stephan J. Goetz
We examine the association between woman farmers and community well-being using U.S. county-level data. We address modeling uncertainty around three measures of community well-being by using a spatial Bayesian model averaging approach and find that a higher share of farms operated or owned by women in a county is associated with higher rates of new business formation, longer life expectancies, and
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Farm heterogeneity and leveraging federal crop insurance for conservation practice adoption Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Jennifer Ifft, Margaret Jodlowski
Current and proposed policies aim to leverage the Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP) to promote conservation practices. This study uses corn farm-level survey data to inform the effectiveness of targeting FCIP participants. We implement an unsupervised machine learning algorithm to assess what conservation practices are most common among participants. We find that farms that use crop insurance have
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Navigating the challenges of building a more resilient infant formula industry Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Jackie Yenerall, Andrew Muhammad, Karen DeLong, Trey Malone
In 2022, U.S. consumers experienced an infant formula shortage that resulted in historic out-of-stock rates and brought renewed attention to market concentration in the infant formula market. FDA regulation, tariffs, and limiting WIC benefit redemption to a state's contract brand of infant formula, all potential barriers to competition, were temporarily relaxed to mitigate the impact of the shortage
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Do regional trade agreements affect agri-food trade? Evidence from a meta-analysis Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor, Dela-Dem Doe Fiankor, Binyam Afewerk Demena
Regional trade agreements (RTAs) have experienced significant growth worldwide, leading to an increase in studies assessing their impact on bilateral trade flows. With the availability of disaggregated trade data, numerous studies have examined the influence of these agreements specifically on agri-food trade. However, the results of these studies exhibit heterogeneity, posing challenges for policymakers
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Decent and equal work in agri-food systems: Evidence from Peru Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Anna Fabry, Monica Schuster, Miet Maertens
Agri-food systems are important sources of rural off-farm employment, but insights on job quality are limited. We study job quality in the Peruvian horticultural sector and explore the driving forces of decent and equal work, using survey data and econometric methods. We find structural disparities in wages and job quality between men and women and between local and migrant workers, trade-offs between
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A meta-analysis of U.S. food demand elasticities to detect the impacts of scanner data Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Younghyeon Jeon, Hoa Hoang, Wyatt Thompson, David Abler
This paper investigates how scanner data affect demand elasticity estimates and develops methods for scientists to adapt estimated elasticities to analyses of specific policies. We conduct a meta-analysis of U.S. demand elasticities and find evidence that scanner data generate statistically different elasticities, with more elastic demand than other data types. Own-price elasticity estimates from household
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A reconsideration of food insecurity trends in the United States Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Craig Gundersen
The food insecurity status of a household in the United States is generally put into the categories of food secure, low food secure, or very low food secure. Substantial differences in the level of need within categories are then ignored. In response, I establish a class of food insecurity measure using the binary measure of food insecurity combined with a measure of “dollars needed to be food secure
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Estimating the impact of cover crop adoption on ambient nitrogen concentration in the upper Mississippi River drainage Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Hsin-Chieh Hsieh, Benjamin M. Gramig
We examine cover crop (CC) adoption to determine how this soil health practice has influenced agricultural non-point source pollution. We use remotely sensed data on practice adoption, and control for hydrological flow direction, weather, and land use to estimate the ex post impact of CC on total Nitrogen concentrations in surface water while controlling for pollutant spillovers from upstream. At the
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Sales performance of direct food marketers: African American-led operations Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Timothy Park, Steve Martinez, Mohammed Ibrahim
This paper examines the impact of participation in direct marketing on the entire distribution of farm sales for African American (AA) operations using the unconditional quantile regression (UQR) estimator. Our analysis yields unbiased estimates of the unconditional impact of direct marketing on farm sales and reveals the heterogeneous effects that occur across the distribution of farm sales. The sales
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Adaptation to climate change: The irrigation technology mix of Italian farmers Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Charlotte Fabri, Michail Tsagris, Michele Moretti, Steven Van Passel
Farmers should increasingly adopt more water-efficient irrigation technologies—such as drip irrigation—as a result of climate warming and aggravating water scarcity. We analyze how Italian farmers adapt to climate change by changing their irrigation technology mix. We apply a two-stage econometric model to data from 5876 Italian farms. We find that farmers' initial reaction to increasing temperatures
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What do we know about the value and market impact of the US Department of Agriculture reports? Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Olga Isengildina Massa, Berna Karali, Scott H. Irwin
The purpose of this paper is to comprehensively review the literature on the value and impact of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports and discuss theoretical issues and empirical evidence. Only a handful of studies provide direct estimates of the welfare benefits of USDA information using a rational expectations framework in storable commodity markets. Most studies examine partial evidence
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The distribution of competitive research grants from the National Institute for Food and Agriculture: A comparison of 1862 land grant universities, 1890 land grant universities, and other institutions Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Norbert L. W. Wilson, Lurleen M. Walters, Tara Wade, Kenesha Reynolds
This article evaluates the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) competitive grant funding awarded to predominately White 1862 land grant institutions (LGUs), historically Black 1890 LGUs, and non-land grant institutions. We present the historical distribution of funding for agricultural research. Much of the inquiry centers on the differential funding of
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Cover crops, farm economics, and policy Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Gary D. Schnitkey, Sarah C. Sellars, Laura F. Gentry
Cover crops have many environmental benefits, including nutrient sequestering, soil health improvements, carbon dioxide removal, and biodiversity increases. Yet, farmers often do not receive enough benefits to warrant planting cover crops, particularly when they have no prior experience with managing cover crops. Therefore, public policies supporting cover crop use may be justified because of the positive
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The farmer and the fates: Locus of control and investment in rainfed agriculture Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 J. G. Malacarne
Vulnerable households, often the target for efforts to increase resilience, likely hold beliefs about their ability to control outcomes that make them less likely to invest in new technologies. Locus of control provides one way to elicit these beliefs and can help identify populations requiring additional support prior to widespread adoption of new technologies. This paper presents evidence from a
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Does increasing the availability of a nutritious food produced by a small- and medium-sized enterprise increase its consumption? Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Mywish K. Maredia, Maria Porter, Eduardo Nakasone, David L. Ortega, Vincenzina Caputo
Many development programs rely on the idea that increasing profitability of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) could increase availability of nutritious foods among low-income consumers. We designed a randomized controlled trial in which we made a specific nutritious product produced by an SME exhaustively available in low-income local markets. We find that compared to control markets, consumers
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Loan survival: Are Black farmers more likely to default? Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Marie-Cécile Vekemans, Gianna Short, Charles B. Dodson, Bruce L. Ahrendsen
This paper discusses differences in the likelihood of loan default between Black and other farmers who took out USDA direct operating loans from 2011 to 2020. By controlling for financial, demographic, and other factors using a Cox proportional hazards model, we found that Black farmers have a higher incidence of default than other farmers. We advanced the research on the relative loan performance
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African Americans and federal land policy: Exploring the Homestead Acts of 1862 and 1866 Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Andrew Muhammad, Christopher Sichko, Tore C. Olsson
We examine the history of US land policy, with a focus on the Homestead Acts, underscoring the precarious position of African Americans during the homesteading period. We discuss the historical context and the shifting political landscape of the Civil War and Reconstruction era, providing the context for research on federal land policies and problems of race. Past research is almost entirely outside
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Dollar store expansion and independent grocery retailer contraction Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Rigoberto Lopez, Keenan Marchesi, Sandro Steinbach
This paper examines the effects of dollar store entry on independent grocery retailers in the United States between 2000 and 2019. We utilized an establishment-level dataset comprising all grocery retailers and dollar stores in the country. Our findings indicate that dollar store entry is associated with a 5.7% decrease in sales, a 3.7% reduction in employment, and a 2.3% rise in the likelihood of
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Global container shipping disruptions, pop-up ports, and US agricultural exports Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Sandro Steinbach, Xiting Zhuang
This paper evaluates the impact of the Commodity Container Assistance Program on containerized agricultural exports from US ports. The program responded to logistical disruptions related to agricultural shipments from the ports of Oakland, Seattle, and Tacoma. Relying on counterfactual event study methods and detailed trade data, we find limited evidence of positive treatment effects after the program
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Race and premium misrating in the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Program Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Jim Teal, Andrew W. Stevens
USDA farm support programs have an established history of racial discrimination. Today, the Federal Crop Insurance Program is among the largest and most important programs available to U.S. farmers. Previous research has documented systematic misrating of crop insurance premiums with sizable welfare implications. In this paper, we explore whether producer race measured at the county level has explanatory
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Pollution and fatal traffic accidents in California counties Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Mark Braun, Sofia B. Villas-Boas
We estimate pollution's causal effect on fatal traffic accidents using instrumental variables. Using variation in fine particulate matter of 2.5 micrometers in diameter or less (PM2.5) because of air temperature inversions and eastward wind, we find that of PM2.5 positively affects fatal traffic accidents. Fatalities increase on average by 1.3% when PM2.5 increases by 1 μ g/m3. This increase corresponds
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Reconsidering the economics of identity: Position, power, and property Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 William A. Darity
The origin of inequality between social identity groups is anchored in acts of violent dispossession of freedom and property by the group seeking the advantages of dominance. The beginning of contemporary disparities in income and especially wealth between Black and White Americans follow the same pattern. Of particular significance is the racialized character of U.S. land distribution policies in
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A new look at agricultural fires and health: A replication of Rangel and Vogl (2019) Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Matthew Gammans, Ariel Ortiz-Bobea
Globally, over 400 million tons of biomass are burned in agricultural fires for management purposes each year, substantially affecting air quality (Korontzi et al., Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2006; 20; Yevich & Logan, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2003; 17). Rangel and Vogl (Review of Economics and Statistics 2019; 101:616–630) provide evidence that agricultural fires in Brazil cause large declines
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Small farms in North Carolina, United States: Analyzing farm and operator characteristics in the pursuit of economic resilience and sustainability Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Obed Quaicoe, Fafanyo Asiseh, Anthony Baffoe-Bonnie, John N. Ng'ombe
Ensuring the sustainability of small farms relies on understanding farm economics, a crucial yet often overlooked aspect. In North Carolina, many small farms are confronted with financial challenges and the risk of collapse. This study examines the factors that influence farm profitability while considering the intersectionality of race and gender. The findings reveal significant disparities in farm
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Halving mineral nitrogen use in European agriculture: Insights from multi-scale land-use models Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Anna Lungarska, Thierry Brunelle, Raja Chakir, Pierre-Alain Jayet, Rémi Prudhomme, Stéphane De Cara, Jean-Christophe Bureau
This paper explores the effects of a public policy that reduces by 50% the use of mineral nitrogen in European agriculture. Our results show that, for the European Union, halving mineral fertilizer use leads to: a decrease in agricultural production, a substantial increase in nitrogen use efficiency, lower use of organic fertilizer and a loss of agricultural competitiveness. At the global level, it
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Crop insurance's impact on commercial bank loan volumes: Theory and evidence Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Jennifer Ifft, Todd H. Kuethe, Gregory Lyons, Alexander Schultz, John Y. Zhu
Crop insurance protects lenders by increasing the likelihood of loan repayment when revenue declines. We develop a theoretical mode that explains the role of crop insurance in agricultural lending and how impacts may be different for lenders that are not specialized in agricultural lending. We then test whether the total volume of production credit extended by commercial banks at the county level increases
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Double jeopardy: COVID-19, coup d'état and poverty in Myanmar Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Duncan Boughton, Derek Headey, Kristi Mahrt, Ame Cho, Xinshen Diao, Isabel Lambrecht, Bart Minten, Joey Goeb, Ian Masias, Ben Belton, Nilar Aung, Cho Cho San
Myanmar experienced multiple COVID shocks as well as a military takeover in February 2021. Impacts on household poverty remain uncertain, however, because large-scale in-person surveys were impossible during the pandemic and heightened internal conflict. We use ex ante simulation models and phone survey evidence to estimate the poverty effects of these shocks and identify factors correlated with them
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Racial disparities in farm loan application processing: Are Black farmers disadvantaged? Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Ashok K. Mishra, Gianna Short, Charles B. Dodson
Black farmers have historically been discriminated against in services from the federal government, including access to credit. Discrimination can take the form of delayed loan processing requests, which can affect timely planting, harvesting, feeding of livestock, and farm performance. This study uses nationwide, farm-level data from 2009 to 2021 from the Farm Service Agency's direct farm loan program
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Factors affecting recent food price inflation in the United States Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Michael K. Adjemian, Shawn Arita, Seth Meyer, Delmy Salin
Beginning in mid-2021, U.S. food prices surged at the fastest pace in decades, due to pandemic-related supply chain and labor shortages, rising transportation costs and wages, food commodity and fertilizer shocks resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and perhaps demand-side effects of recent monetary and fiscal stimulus. We decompose the path of domestic food prices into explanatory factors
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Covid-19 and caste inequalities in India: The critical role of social identity in pandemic-induced job losses Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Ashwini Deshpande, Rajesh Ramachandran
Using panel data for the period between April 2019 and September 2021, this paper investigates how the Covid-19 pandemic-induced lockdowns imposed differential labor market shocks on different social identity groups. We find that while all caste groups lost jobs in the first 2 months of the lockdown, the job losses for lowest-ranked caste are greater by factor of more than two. The data shows that
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Replications in agricultural economics Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Robert Finger, Carola Grebitus, Arne Henningsen
Replicability is a cornerstone of all scientific disciplines. While agricultural economists often provide recommendations to stakeholders that inform, among others policymaking, we currently lack replication papers published in leading agricultural economics journals. This increases the risk that published results are not replicable, which potentially can lead to inefficient resource allocation. In
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Perspectives on stakeholder participation in the design of economic experiments for agricultural policymaking: Pros, cons, and twelve recommendations for researchers Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Julia Höhler, Jesús Barreiro-Hurlé, Mikołaj Czajkowski, François J. Dessart, Paul J. Ferraro, Tongzhe Li, Kent D. Messer, Leah Palm-Forster, Mette Termansen, Fabian Thomas, Katarzyna Zagórska, Kahsay Haile Zemo, Jens Rommel
Economic experiments have emerged as a powerful tool for agricultural policy evaluations. In this perspective, we argue that involving stakeholders in the design of economic experiments is critical to satisfy mandates for evidence-based policies and encourage policymakers' usage of experimental results. To identify advantages and disadvantages of involving stakeholders when designing experiments, we
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Hypothetical bias mitigation in representative and convenience samples Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Jerrod M. Penn, Daniel R. Petrolia, J. Matthew Fannin
This is a case study comparing outcomes for a probability-based representative sample versus a non-probability convenience sample for the valuation of beach condition information among Gulf of Mexico residents. We test the efficacy of several techniques used to adjust for hypothetical bias and sample weighting to reduce hypothetical willingness to pay (WTP). Weighting makes the WTP between the two
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Action- versus results-based policy designs for agricultural climate change mitigation Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Cordelia Kreft, Robert Finger, Robert Huber
Reducing agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is key to achieve overall climate policy goals. Effective and efficient policy instruments are needed to incentivize farmers' adoption of on-farm climate change mitigation practices. We compare action- and results-based policy designs for GHG reduction in agriculture and account for farmers' heterogeneous behavioral characteristics such as individual
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Components of agricultural productivity change: Replication of US evidence and extension to the EU Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Stefan Wimmer, K Hervé Dakpo
Increasing agricultural productivity is a policy priority in many countries. O'Donnell (Am. J. Agric. Econ. 94(4): 873–890, 2012) decomposed productivity change in US agriculture using a Lowe total factor productivity (TFP) index. We replicate the original study, assess its robustness to alternative TFP indices, and extend the analysis to EU agriculture. We consistently find that productivity growth
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Coping with COVID-19 shocks in rural Nepal Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Kierstin Ekstrom, Sarah Janzen, Nicholas Magnan
We examine shocks experienced by rural Nepali households during the COVID-19 pandemic. Households primarily experienced income and price shocks during a government-imposed lockdown. During this time, households managed to effectively protect consumption, and mostly relied on credit (26%), asset sales (10%) and savings (8%). Debt levels nearly doubled, with limited changes to savings. We then leverage
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Comparing water quality valuation across probability and non-probability samples Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Kaitlynn Sandstrom-Mistry, Frank Lupi, Hyunjung Kim, Joseph A. Herriges
We compare water quality valuation results from a probability sample and two opt-in non-probability samples, MTurk and Qualtrics. The samples differ in some key demographics, but measured attitudes are strikingly similar. For valuation models, most parameters were significantly different across samples, yet many of the marginal willingness to pay were similar across samples. Notably, for non-marginal
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Assessing the impact of COVID-19 and related interventions on poverty and economic growth in Pakistan: A structural path analysis Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Stephen Davies, Tehseen Quershi, Abdul Wajid Rana, Zeeshan Haider, Sehrish Raja
This study uses social accounting matrix multipliers and structural path analyses to estimate effects of COVID-19 and related fiscal stimuli on five household groups. The COVID-19 lockdown increased poverty in Pakistan by 15%, which was addressed using a $1.5 billion, digitally implemented Ehsaas Emergency Cash (EEC) program that reached 14.8 million poor households. The study's models show that the
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Why don't low-income households purchase fruits and vegetables? Findings from African American communities in Nashville metro areas of Tennessee Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Aditya R. Khanal, Sudip Adhikari, Fisseha Tegegne
Low-income households and minority communities in the US are considered highly vulnerable to diet-and nutrition-related adverse health effects. Households' food-related decisions may entail real or perceived tradeoffs among price, preference, access and availability, and other factors. We use a sample of low-income households, mostly from African American communities, from the Nashville metropolitan
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Private transfers, public transfers, and food insecurity during the time of COVID-19: Evidence from Bangladesh Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Akhter Ahmed, M. Mehrab Bakhtiar, Daniel O. Gilligan, John Hoddinott, Shalini Roy
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, interest has grown in what kinds of assistance protect household food security during shocks. We study rural and urban Bangladesh from 2018 to 2019 to late 2021, assessing how pre-pandemic access to social safety net programs and private remittances relate to household food insecurity during the pandemic. Using longitudinal data and estimating differences-in-differences
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On the robustness/replication of econometric analyses from nonlinear models using various commonplace software packages Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Oral Capps
Because replicability is an important part of every scientific endeavor, this research deals with comparing and contrasting parameter estimates, standard errors, and p-values from the estimation of five commonly encountered nonlinear models in applied econometrics. Commonplace software packages indigenous to econometrics and statistics are used, namely EVIEWS 11.0, SAS 9.4, Stata 17, and R 4.1.2 in
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Employment effects of an emergency assistance package for migrants displaced by COVID-19 in India Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Deepak Varshney, J. V. Meenakshi
This paper examines the employment effects of an emergency assistance package by the Indian government, the Garib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyaan that had the sole objective of providing employment to returning migrants. It was targeted to 116 districts that had seen returning migrants in excess of 25,000, was limited in duration to 4 months, and was directed at top-up funding to public works and 25 other target
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Examining the role of the excess shelter deduction in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit formula Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Mehreen S. Ismail, Michele Ver Ploeg, Virginia Chomitz, Parke Wilde
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program's (SNAP) excess shelter deduction acknowledges that high shelter expenses can compete with food spending. We examined whether the deduction facilitates benefit targeting. We estimated that 48%–67% of SNAP households received the deduction, with the likelihood varying by region, household composition, and housing tenure. Households living in the Northeast
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COVID-19 lockdown and collective activities: Evidence from the world's largest self-help group program Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Garima Siwach, Thomas de Hoop, Chinmaya Holla Udayakumar, Sapna Desai
We study the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 on the monthly savings of self-help groups (SHGs) in India, and the role of SHGs in mitigating the economic effects of the lockdown. Administrative data suggest that monthly savings of SHGs declined by 66% between March and July of 2020, with larger declines in areas with more stringent lockdowns. Survey data revealed that SHG and non-SHG households
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New insights on regional differences of the farmland price structure: An extended replication study on the parcel size–price relationship Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Henning Schaak, Luise Meissner, Oliver Musshoff
This study adds insights about the nonlinear effect of parcel sizes on farmland prices. Therefore, replications of Ritter et al. (2020, Land Use Policy, DOI: j.landusepol.2020.104771) are performed in four ways. The study contributes to the literature within two dimensions: (i) the geographical scope, which allows insights into regional differences in the price structure for farmland and (ii) the role
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Food supply chains and resilience to shocks: Evidence from India's COVID-19 lockdown Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Nikita Gupta, Vidya Vemireddy, Abhishek Shaw
We study the disruption of food supply to households and reduced farm-to-market arrivals in India's food supply chain during the COVID-19 lockdown. We focus on the relationship between logistics quality (and performance) and the intensity of disruptions across India's states. We find four policy-relevant findings: (1) Food consumption expenditure was higher in states with better logistics quality;
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Locking down adolescent hunger: COVID-19 and food security in Bangladesh Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Jennifer Seager, Sarah Baird, Jared Kalow, Salauddin Tauseef
Policy responses to slow the spread of COVID-19 have increased economic insecurity globally. We use panel data collected immediately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic with adolescents in Bangladesh to assess the association between COVID-19-related restrictions and adolescent hunger. One year into the pandemic, adolescents were three-fold more likely to report hunger, and households were twice
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The economic impacts of Russia–Ukraine War export disruptions of grain commodities Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Adam Rose, Zhenhua Chen, Dan Wei
Using the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) computable general equilibrium model, we analyze the economic impacts of grain export disruptions caused by the Russia–Ukraine War during the first year of hostilities. The simulation results indicate that these disruptions not only affect Ukraine and Russia but also generate significant economic impacts across other world regions. Ukraine is projected
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Consumer demand for food at home and food away from home: Understanding economic linkages during the pandemic Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Joseph V. Balagtas, Joseph Cooper, Patrick McLaughlin, Fei Qin
Household food expenditure has shifted away from Food at Home (FAH) and towards Food Away from Home (FAFH). Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, FAFH's share of food expenditure surpassed that of FAH, reaching 55% in 2019. Yet economic research on FAFH and the interaction of FAFH and FAH has been limited. Combining scanner data for meat sales in grocery stores with data for FAFH expenditure, we estimate
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Of women and land: How gender affects successions and transfers of Iowa farms Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Qing Liu, Beatrice Maule, Wendong Zhang
Using 589 responses to the 2019 Iowa Farm Transfer Survey, we examine factors in farm successor choices among Iowa farmers with a focus on female successors and landowners. Among those with identified successors, 57% chose sons and 8% chose daughters. We find a 12.4% probability a female farmer will choose a daughter, but only 5.9% for a male farmer. Agriculture experience increases the probability
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Stocking up and stocking out: Food retail stock-outs, consumer demand, and prices during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 Appl. Econ. Perspect. Policy (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Patrick W. McLaughlin, Alexander Stevens, Shawn Arita, Xiao Dong
Monitoring food retail stock-outs or the unplanned unavailability of certain food items for purchase assists policymakers in responding to food supply chain disruptions. This study focuses on identifying food stock-outs using store-level scanner data on US grocery store sales during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The total median stock-out rates of fixed-weight items increased by approximately 130%