S. Ndindeng, E. Twine, G. Mujawamariya, R. Fiamohe, K. Futakuchi
{"title":"Hedonic Pricing of Rice Attributes, Market Sorting, and Gains from Quality Improvement in the Beninese Market","authors":"S. Ndindeng, E. Twine, G. Mujawamariya, R. Fiamohe, K. Futakuchi","doi":"10.1017/age.2020.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2020.24","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Latent class analysis is applied to a hedonic price model to examine the presence of heterogeneity in consumer valuation of quality attributes in the Beninese rice market. Three classes of consumers are found in proportions of 5, 56, and 39 percent. We employ a partial equilibrium model and find modest gains in consumer surplus from an increase in head rice and reduction in chalkiness. The results provide evidence of market sorting, which should be taken into consideration in upgrading rice value chains. Also, it is important to assess potential gains from quality improvement to determine priorities for research and development.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"170 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/age.2020.24","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48100432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Farm Profitability as a Driver of Spatial Spillovers: The Case of Somatic Cell Counts on Wisconsin Dairies","authors":"T. Skevas, Ioannis Skevas, V. Cabrera","doi":"10.1017/age.2020.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2020.22","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We hypothesize that spatial spillovers among neighboring farms are not only driven by spatial proximity, but also by farm profitability considerations. This hypothesis is tested by examining the role of spatial spillovers in shaping somatic cell counts (SCC) on Wisconsin dairy farms. Results show that neighborhood links defined both in terms of geographic proximity and farm profitability give rise to spatial spillovers that affect SCC. Significant differences in the estimated spatial spillovers are observed when defining the neighborhood space in terms of both farm profitability and geographic proximity as opposed to geographic proximity alone, with the data favoring the former specification.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"187 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/age.2020.22","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46799068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elaine F Frey, Jill L Caviglia-Harris, Patrick Walsh
{"title":"Increasing Participation and Access to Economic Associations and Their Services.","authors":"Elaine F Frey, Jill L Caviglia-Harris, Patrick Walsh","doi":"10.1017/age.2020.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2020.21","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Discussions about increasing diversity in economics have ignored the role that associations play in the engagement of underrepresented economists. We continue work on diversity and inclusion in the Northeastern Agriculture and Resource Economics Association (NAREA) and other associations by analyzing membership and meeting attendance to promote diversity in economics. We estimate a vector error correction model (VECM) to identify the determinants of membership and meeting attendance and use member survey data to model membership and meeting attendance behavior. We find inequalities across gender, income, and professional status. Recommendations include locating meetings in accessible cities, increasing networking opportunities, and providing more services supporting underrepresented groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/age.2020.21","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40362108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impacts of Health Services on Agricultural Labor Productivity of Rural Households in Burkina Faso","authors":"Omer S. Combary, S. Traore","doi":"10.1017/age.2020.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2020.19","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article has used the method of instrumental variables to evaluate the impact of health services on the productivity of rural households’ farming labor in Burkina Faso. The distance from the household's homestead to the Health and Social Promotion Center (HSPC) was considered as an instrumental variable. The results revealed that resorting to a HSPC in case of an unexpected illness in the rainy season significantly improves the farm labor productivity by FCFA 3170.5880 per person-day. For improving agricultural productivity, we suggest that public decision-makers should focus on the availability and the quality of HSPC services in rural areas.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"150 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/age.2020.19","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47874657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Milej, Lian He, Androu Abdalmalak, Wesley B Baker, Udunna C Anazodo, Mamadou Diop, Sudipto Dolui, Venkaiah C Kavuri, William Pavlosky, Lin Wang, Ramani Balu, John A Detre, Olivia Amendolia, Francis Quattrone, W Andrew Kofke, Arjun G Yodh, Keith St Lawrence
{"title":"Quantification of cerebral blood flow in adults by contrast-enhanced near-infrared spectroscopy: Validation against MRI.","authors":"Daniel Milej, Lian He, Androu Abdalmalak, Wesley B Baker, Udunna C Anazodo, Mamadou Diop, Sudipto Dolui, Venkaiah C Kavuri, William Pavlosky, Lin Wang, Ramani Balu, John A Detre, Olivia Amendolia, Francis Quattrone, W Andrew Kofke, Arjun G Yodh, Keith St Lawrence","doi":"10.1177/0271678X19872564","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0271678X19872564","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy of absolute cerebral blood flow (CBF) measurements obtained by dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) using indocyanine green as a perfusion contrast agent. For validation, CBF was measured independently using the MRI perfusion method arterial spin labeling (ASL). Data were acquired at two sites and under two flow conditions (normocapnia and hypercapnia). Depth sensitivity was enhanced using time-resolved detection, which was demonstrated in a separate set of experiments using a tourniquet to temporally impede scalp blood flow. A strong correlation between CBF measurements from ASL and DCE-NIRS was observed (slope = 0.99 ± 0.08, y-intercept = -1.7 ± 7.4 mL/100 g/min, and <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.88). Mean difference between the two techniques was 1.9 mL/100 g/min (95% confidence interval ranged from -15 to 19 mL/100g/min and the mean ASL CBF was 75.4 mL/100 g/min). Error analysis showed that structural information and baseline absorption coefficient were needed for optimal CBF reconstruction with DCE-NIRS. This study demonstrated that DCE-NIRS is sensitive to blood flow in the adult brain and can provide accurate CBF measurements with the appropriate modeling techniques.</p>","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"1672-1684"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7370369/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79211027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge Spillover and Positive Environmental Externality in Agricultural Decision Making under Performance-Based Payment Programs","authors":"Hongxing Liu, Christopher S. Ruebeck","doi":"10.1017/age.2020.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2020.18","url":null,"abstract":"Agricultural activities have imposed significant impacts on water resources, leading to hypoxic zones and harmful algal blooms all over the world. Government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and individuals have been making various efforts to reduce this non-point source pollution. Among those efforts, even the more cost-effective examples of performance-based environmental payment programs generally have low participation rates. We investigate the effects of externalities in farmers’ decisions on neighboring farms, incorporating both a knowledge spillover effect and a positive environmental outcome externality of farmers’ best-management practice (BMP) adoption decisions. Our focus is on how these effects may influence the outcome of performance-based payment programs and how policy makers might recognize these effects in the design of cost-effective policies to promote program participation and BMP adoption. Rather than imposing an assumption of profit-maximization or forward-looking behavior, we allow outcomes to emerge from interactions among neighboring farmers. We recommend cost-effective policies across communities depending on their composition. It is more cost-effective to target communities with fewer innovators and/or target the programs towards the least-innovative individuals.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"49 1","pages":"270 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/age.2020.18","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48491061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foreword","authors":"Donna Ramirez Harrington, Martin D. Heintzelman","doi":"10.1017/age.2020.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2020.16","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue on “Environmental Regulation and Innovation in Local Communities” came out of the 2019 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association's Post-Conference Workshop. The workshop sought to invite a conversation among researchers, think tanks, government agencies, and policy makers to enhance our understanding of (1) how local communities innovate when shaping and responding to environmental regulations, and (2) how these environmental regulations affect rural communities’ economic well-being and environmental quality. This resulting special issue includes two invited pieces from the workshop's keynote speakers, both leading scholars in the area of regulation or innovation and five manuscripts that deal with local environmental issues—issues that highlight geographically distinct environmental problems related to land use, water quality, and energy—each of which require different solutions. In various ways, these papers look at the linkages between economic and environmental objectives that define the location-specificity of the environmental issue at hand and the requisite policy solutions.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"49 1","pages":"193 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/age.2020.16","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47256082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethnic Variation in Immigrants' Diets and Food Acculturation – United States 1999–2012","authors":"G. W. Gustavsen, D. Dong, R. Nayga, K. Rickertsen","doi":"10.1017/age.2020.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2020.17","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Immigration has changed the United States from having a predominantly white to a more ethnically diverse population. People who move to the U.S. may initially have diets unlike native-born Americans but gradually adopt eating patterns more like them. Using NHANES data and a censored gamma regression model, this study estimated the daily consumption of major food products among groups of immigrants and the corresponding groups born in the U.S. Results show that immigrants had lower consumption of meat and higher consumption of fruits and vegetables, and immigrants’ consumption converged towards a less healthy American diet after five years in the U.S.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"43 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/age.2020.17","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45153031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}