G. Signorini, David L. Ortega, R. Ross, H. C. Peterson
{"title":"Heterogeneity in farmers’ willingness to produce bioenergy crops in the Midwest USA","authors":"G. Signorini, David L. Ortega, R. Ross, H. C. Peterson","doi":"10.1017/AGE.2021.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/AGE.2021.8","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Previous studies indicate that “hesitation” and “skepticism” are important barriers to the development of renewable energy industries in the United States. We examine whether key pecuniary and nonpecuniary characteristics of bioenergy crops underlie the hesitation argument. Based on a stated choice experiment, we find that Midwestern producers appreciate certain crop attributes that are found in switchgrass, but not in conventional crops. We also find that producers would be willing to grow switchgrass-like crops for net margins between $222/acre/year and $247/acre/year in marginal counties. We argue that farmers’ hesitation and skepticism toward bioenergy crops can be overcome.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-27"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/AGE.2021.8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45349318","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":"Consumer willingness-to-pay for restaurant surcharges to reduce carbon emissions: default and information effects","authors":"Dede Long, G. West, R. Nayga","doi":"10.1017/AGE.2021.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/AGE.2021.7","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The agriculture and food sectors contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. About 15 percent of food-related carbon emissions are channeled through restaurants. Using a contingent valuation (CV) method with double-bounded dichotomous choice (DBDC) questions, this article investigates U.S. consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for an optional restaurant surcharge in support of carbon emission reduction programs. The mean estimated WTP for a surcharge is 6.05 percent of an average restaurant check, while the median WTP is 3.64 percent. Our results show that individuals have a higher WTP when the surcharge is automatically added to restaurant checks. We also find that an information nudge—a short climate change script—significantly increases WTP. Additionally, our results demonstrate that there is heterogeneity in treatment effects across consumers’ age, environmental awareness, and economic views. Our findings suggest that a surcharge program could transfer a meaningful amount of the agricultural carbon reduction burden to consumers that farmers currently shoulder.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-29"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/AGE.2021.7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46095974","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":"Local brand entry and incumbent variety response: evidence from the ice cream market","authors":"Xiao Dong, H. Klaiber, Dong and Klaiber","doi":"10.1017/AGE.2021.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/AGE.2021.5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We investigate incumbent brands’ response to entry and increased competition in a large retail setting. We extend the nonprice competition and manufacturer stocking literatures by examining if incumbent brands increase quality, specifically increasing the number of varieties (product-line length), in response to entry of a new local brand in the ice cream market. We use the entry of a new, local, super-premium ice cream brand in a large supermarket chain as a quasi-natural experiment and empirically examine if incumbent ice cream brands increased the product-line length in stores carrying the new brand. Using Poisson difference-in-differences estimators, we find that incumbent brands increased the number of varieties offered by 0.9 (3 percent) after the new brand's entry, with most of the responses coming from super-premium ice cream, which increased the number of varieties offered by 2.9 (12 percent) product choices. These findings contribute new insights into quality changes, manufacturer stocking decisions, and nonprice competition associated with entry of a local brand into the food retail sector.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/AGE.2021.5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46150540","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}
Shang Wu, J. Fooks, Tongzhe Li, K. Messer, D. Delaney
{"title":"Bidding behavior in auctions versus posted prices: comparisons of mean and marginal effects","authors":"Shang Wu, J. Fooks, Tongzhe Li, K. Messer, D. Delaney","doi":"10.1017/AGE.2021.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/AGE.2021.6","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Economic experiments have been widely used to elicit individuals' evaluation for various commodities. Common elicitation methods include auction and posted price mechanisms. A field experiment is designed to compare willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates between these two mechanisms. Despite both of these formats being theoretically incentive compatible and demand revealing, results from 115 adult consumers indicate that WTP estimates obtained from an auction are 32–39 percent smaller than those from a posted price mechanism. A comparison in statistical significance shows that auctions require a smaller sample size than posted price mechanisms in order to detect the same preference change. Nevertheless, the signs of marginal effects for different product characteristics are consistent in both mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/AGE.2021.6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46782852","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":"Lessons from long-run (1975–2017) structural change in Colombia's coffee production","authors":"Mariana Saenz, Diego R. Alvarez, G. Brock","doi":"10.1017/AGE.2021.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/AGE.2021.1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Although coffee is still an important agricultural commodity in Colombia, the coffee share of GDP has significantly declined over the past 40 years. Controlling for changes in relative prices, factor endowments, and technological change, we analyze the coffee share decline in conjunction with other agricultural output by applying a Vector Error Correction model. The results indicate that while market liberalization policies contributed to the declining coffee share of GDP, the decline was partly offset by the end of coffee export quotas. Our results support policies in favor of assistance for farmers to compete in international markets.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/AGE.2021.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44106175","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":"Gendered access to land and household food insecurity: Evidence from Nigeria","authors":"A. Nnaji, N. Ratna, A. Renwick","doi":"10.1017/age.2021.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2021.13","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article, we examine the joint influence of land access and gender of household head on household food insecurity by employing a logit model and using data from the 2015/2016 Nigerian General Household Survey. Our results show that female-headed households (FHHs) are more food insecure than male-headed households. However, with a 1-acre increase in their access to land, FHHs are 16 percent less likely to be food insecure. This finding provides policy insights into how improving access to arable land for land-poor FHHs can enhance food security in Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"45 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42776408","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":"Chronic sources of low cocoa production in Ghana: new insights from meta-analysis of old survey data","authors":"Francis Tsiboe","doi":"10.1017/AGE.2021.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/AGE.2021.3","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Several studies have tried to estimate the productivity and input use efficiency of cocoa farmers in Ghana, but they shed limited light on their chronic nature and other sources of low production. This study extends the literature by analyzing a unique nationally representative sample that constitutes 30 years of production. The results showed that pure farmer technical inefficiency is not only 8 percent points larger than the regional technology gap, but also consistently dominated the overall performance of farmers from 1987-2017. The policy implication of this finding at face value suggests that improving farmer managerial skills could increase output.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/AGE.2021.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44783707","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 Producers' Household Consumption and Individual Risk Behavior after Natural Disasters","authors":"A. Wahdat, M. Gunderson, J. Lusk","doi":"10.1017/age.2021.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2021.2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Understanding how farm household consumption responds to adverse income shocks can provide insight into household well-being and appropriate agricultural policy. Using a split-sample survey of Indiana specialty producers, where we randomly assign respondents to treatments that vary the size of a hypothetical income shock, we estimate the relationship between income loss and household consumption. Given that postdisaster producers' risk preferences are important for business decisions, we elicit producers' risk preferences. We find that food and miscellaneous expenses are the most sensitive to income losses. We also find evidence for decreasing absolute risk aversion among producers after the income loss shock.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"127 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/age.2021.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48609501","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":"Tariff Elimination and the Competitiveness of Wine-Exporting Countries in Japan","authors":"Emily K. Greear, A. Muhammad","doi":"10.1017/age.2020.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2020.25","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Bilateral trade agreements between Japan and major wine-exporting countries have resulted in tariff eliminations in Japan. This raises questions about how tariffs affect the competitiveness of wine-exporting countries. The generalized dynamic Rotterdam model was used in estimating Japanese wine demand by source. Estimates were then used to project the impact of tariffs on imports of Australian, Chilean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and U.S. wine. Tariff reductions primarily benefit affected countries, with limited adverse effects on competing countries. The elimination of tariffs on U.S. wine should offset any losses from competing trade agreements.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"76 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/age.2020.25","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46883191","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}