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Consumer Evaluation of Organic, Local, and Controlled-Environment Grown Lettuce: Evidence From an Experimental Auction in Two Study Sites 消费者对有机、本地和受控环境种植生菜的评价：来自两个研究地点的实验拍卖的证据

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-11-11 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70077

Elena Krasovskaia, Jie Li, Miguel I. Gómez, Charles F. Nicholson, Christine M. Sauer

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Decentralization and Spatial (Mis-)Allocation of Irrigation Water 灌溉用水的分散与空间（错）配置

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-11-11 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70074

Sabyasachi Das, Souvik Dutta

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Integrating Soil Natural Capital Into Production Frontiers of Ecosystem Services in Agriculture 将土壤自然资本纳入农业生态系统服务生产前沿

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-11-06 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70076

Toho Hien, Serge Garcia, Christophe Schwartz

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Farmers’ Risk and Ambiguity Preferences and Fertilizer Use Behaviors: Experimental Evidence From Taihu Basin in China 农民风险、模糊偏好与肥料使用行为：来自太湖流域的实验证据

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70063

Weiwen Zhang, Yingyi Jin, Bin Xu

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Free From the Kitchen Fueled by Clean Energy: Women's Employment and Nutritional Benefits in Rural China 清洁能源助力下的免费厨房：中国农村妇女的就业和营养福利

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-29 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70075

Hao Feng, Zhen Yan, H. Holly Wang

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Impact of Climate Change on Labor Market Dynamics: Evidence From Kazakhstan 气候变化对劳动力市场动态的影响：来自哈萨克斯坦的证据

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70073

Dinara Alpysbayeva, Dana Bazarkulova, Kirsten de Beurs, Galiya Sagyndykova

{"title":"Impact of Climate Change on Labor Market Dynamics: Evidence From Kazakhstan","authors":"Dinara Alpysbayeva, Dana Bazarkulova, Kirsten de Beurs, Galiya Sagyndykova","doi":"10.1111/agec.70073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70073","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines how drought shocks affect formal employment in Kazakhstan. We combine remote sensing data on drought severity—the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI)—with quarterly firm-level administrative employment records from 2012 to 2022. We leverage a recently developed nonparametric difference-in-differences estimator to address treatment heterogeneity in timing and recurrence, a key challenge in studying climate shocks. Despite theoretical predictions of labor reallocation following agricultural productivity shocks, we find no statistically significant average effect of severe drought (PDSI ≤ −3) on formal agricultural employment. Small, short-lived adjustments in job destruction and reallocation are observed, but these effects are not persistent. We attribute this muted response to institutional factors that decouple climatic shocks from labor demand. Importantly, heterogeneity analysis reveals that employment responses depend more on drought duration than its intensity: Sustained multiperiod droughts lead to stronger employment and reallocation effects than shorter episodes.</p>","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/agec.70073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146099447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Weight Loss and Food Spending 减肥和食物消费

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70072

Justin D. Bina, Ujjwol Paudel

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Price and Volatility Transmission From International to Domestic Food and Fertilizer Markets in Central America 中美洲食品和化肥市场从国际到国内的价格和波动传导

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-21 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70071

Manuel A. Hernandez, Francisco Ceballos, Maria Lucia Berrospi, Viviana M. E. Perego, Melissa Brown, Elena Mora Lopez

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Trade-Off Between Accuracy and Cognitive Burden: Influence of Stated Attribute Non-Attendance Questions on Participants' Choice Behaviors 准确性与认知负担的权衡：陈述属性不出席问题对被试选择行为的影响

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70070

Yefan Nian, Zhifeng Gao, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr, Yuning Zhao, Joanna Van Asselt

{"title":"Trade-Off Between Accuracy and Cognitive Burden: Influence of Stated Attribute Non-Attendance Questions on Participants' Choice Behaviors","authors":"Yefan Nian, Zhifeng Gao, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr, Yuning Zhao, Joanna Van Asselt","doi":"10.1111/agec.70070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Past studies have shown that asking stated attribute non-attendance (ANA) questions at the choice task level can improve the accuracy of revealing participants' ANA information in choice experiments (CEs). However, the impact of such questions on CE participants' underlying choice behaviors in subsequent choice tasks remains underexplored. This study assesses whether and to what extent stated ANA questions within CE choice task sequences introduce learning and fatigue effects by influencing participants' behaviors in CEs, including response time, preference elicitation, choice randomness, and willingness-to-pay (WTP). Using a between-subject design by assigning participants to one of three CEs with different types of stated ANA questions, we found that although choice task level stated ANA questions provided more accurate ANA information, they might lead to participants' longer response time, increased choice randomness, and altered WTP estimates with larger standard deviations, possibly due to increased cognitive burden for participants. Meanwhile, a single randomly placed stated ANA question could also influence CE participants' response time and preferences, but have minimal impact on choice randomness. Therefore, CE practitioners should carefully weigh the enhanced accuracy of ANA behavior measurement against potential disruptions to participants' choice behaviors when including stated ANA questions in CEs.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146193530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Influence of Climatic Changes on Farmers’ Participation in Biodiversity-Enhancing Agri-Environmental-Climate Schemes 气候变化对农民参与生物多样性增强农业-环境-气候计划的影响

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Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-06 DOI: 10.1111/agec.70069

Carina Ober, Fabian Frick, Johannes Sauer

{"title":"Influence of Climatic Changes on Farmers’ Participation in Biodiversity-Enhancing Agri-Environmental-Climate Schemes","authors":"Carina Ober, Fabian Frick, Johannes Sauer","doi":"10.1111/agec.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Biodiversity loss on agricultural land is progressing while European farmers’ participation in agri-environmental-climate schemes (AECS) is limited. Meanwhile, weather extremes are increasingly affecting agricultural production and, thus, land management decisions. Using a discrete choice experiment in Southern Germany, we explore determinants of farmer participation in biodiversity AECS. Management flexibility emerged as a key factor for scheme adoption. Farmers who experience negative impacts from climate change or have pessimistic expectations about future climatic conditions tend to invest less in non-productive AECS if they believe they have effective adaptation practices that support continued crop production. To ensure the transition to sustainable food production in the future, our results highlight the need to design and promote sustainable adaptation strategies to climate change in addition to AECS. Our results also highlight the need to consider different farm types, considering that forage farms seem less reactive to climatic changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":50837,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Economics","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/agec.70069","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146096395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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