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Adaptation to climate change: The irrigation technology mix of Italian farmers 适应气候变化：意大利农民的灌溉技术组合
IF 5.8 2区 经济学
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-16 DOI: 10.1002/aepp.13411
Charlotte Fabri, Michail Tsagris, Michele Moretti, Steven Van Passel
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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 国家食品与农业研究所竞争性研究补助金的分配情况：1862 年赠地大学、1890 年赠地大学和其他机构的比较
IF 5.8 2区 经济学
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-15 DOI: 10.1002/aepp.13413
Norbert L. W. Wilson, Lurleen M. Walters, Tara Wade, Kenesha Reynolds
{"title":"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","authors":"Norbert L. W. Wilson,&nbsp;Lurleen M. Walters,&nbsp;Tara Wade,&nbsp;Kenesha Reynolds","doi":"10.1002/aepp.13413","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aepp.13413","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 the 1862 LGUs, 1890 LGUs, and non-land grant institutions. We discuss the implications for academic and community stakeholders. Results show that, on average, 1890 LGUs and non-land grant institutions receive less competitive grant funding than 1862 LGUs for the same award programs. We show that the disparity falls from 2010 to 2019.</p>","PeriodicalId":8004,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy","volume":"46 1","pages":"76-94"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138691075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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What do we know about the value and market impact of the US Department of Agriculture reports? 我们对美国农业部报告的价值和市场影响了解多少？
IF 5.8 2区 经济学
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1002/aepp.13409
Olga Isengildina Massa, Berna Karali, Scott H. Irwin
{"title":"What do we know about the value and market impact of the US Department of Agriculture reports?","authors":"Olga Isengildina Massa,&nbsp;Berna Karali,&nbsp;Scott H. Irwin","doi":"10.1002/aepp.13409","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aepp.13409","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 of welfare benefits associated with market response to USDA information. These studies include examinations of the impacts of USDA report releases on cash and futures price volatility and other market dynamics, impacts of report releases on options implied volatility, impacts of unanticipated information in USDA reports, as well as informational value, returns, and survey-based studies. We discuss the methodological and empirical contributions of these studies as well as their shortcomings and potential opportunities for future work.</p>","PeriodicalId":8004,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy","volume":"46 2","pages":"698-736"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aepp.13409","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138691005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Cover crops, farm economics, and policy 覆盖作物、农业经济和政策
IF 5.8 2区 经济学
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Pub Date : 2023-11-22 DOI: 10.1002/aepp.13404
Gary D. Schnitkey, Sarah C. Sellars, Laura F. Gentry
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The farmer and the fates: Locus of control and investment in rainfed agriculture 农民与命运：雨水灌溉农业的控制权与投资
IF 5.8 2区 经济学
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI: 10.1002/aepp.13403
J. G. Malacarne
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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 增加中小型企业生产的营养食品的供应量是否会增加其消费量？来自肯尼亚实地实验的证据
IF 5.8 2区 经济学
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Pub Date : 2023-10-28 DOI: 10.1002/aepp.13402
Mywish K. Maredia, Maria Porter, Eduardo Nakasone, David L. Ortega, Vincenzina Caputo
{"title":"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","authors":"Mywish K. Maredia,&nbsp;Maria Porter,&nbsp;Eduardo Nakasone,&nbsp;David L. Ortega,&nbsp;Vincenzina Caputo","doi":"10.1002/aepp.13402","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aepp.13402","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 in treated markets purchased and consumed more of this product and less of competing brands with added sugar and fat. However, overall consumption for the product category was not increased and there was no change in the consumption of other related but potentially less nutritious foods. Our findings suggest the need for alternative policies to increase consumption of nutritious foods.</p>","PeriodicalId":8004,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy","volume":"46 2","pages":"414-434"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aepp.13402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136233628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Loan survival: Are Black farmers more likely to default? 贷款生存：黑人农民是否更容易违约？
IF 5.8 2区 经济学
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Pub Date : 2023-10-24 DOI: 10.1002/aepp.13400
Marie-Cécile Vekemans, Gianna Short, Charles B. Dodson, Bruce L. Ahrendsen
{"title":"Loan survival: Are Black farmers more likely to default?","authors":"Marie-Cécile Vekemans,&nbsp;Gianna Short,&nbsp;Charles B. Dodson,&nbsp;Bruce L. Ahrendsen","doi":"10.1002/aepp.13400","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aepp.13400","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 of different racial/ethnic minority groups, revealing heterogeneity in the likelihood of default that indicates using a single grouping for all minorities obscures important differences. There could be multiple contributing factors to higher rates of default among Black borrowers that deserve future attention and study, though it is beyond the scope of this paper to identify a causal mechanism.</p>","PeriodicalId":8004,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy","volume":"46 1","pages":"137-153"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135265948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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African Americans and federal land policy: Exploring the Homestead Acts of 1862 and 1866 非裔美国人与联邦土地政策：探索 1862 年和 1866 年的《宅地法
IF 5.8 2区 经济学
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI: 10.1002/aepp.13401
Andrew Muhammad, Christopher Sichko, Tore C. Olsson
{"title":"African Americans and federal land policy: Exploring the Homestead Acts of 1862 and 1866","authors":"Andrew Muhammad,&nbsp;Christopher Sichko,&nbsp;Tore C. Olsson","doi":"10.1002/aepp.13401","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aepp.13401","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 of the agricultural and applied economics profession. We believe that the applied economics discipline is especially suited for empirically examining the influence of federal land policies on past and present disparities and racial makeup of American agriculture.</p>","PeriodicalId":8004,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy","volume":"46 1","pages":"95-110"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aepp.13401","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135918038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Dollar store expansion and independent grocery retailer contraction 一元店扩张和独立杂货零售商收缩
IF 5.8 2区 经济学
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI: 10.1002/aepp.13398
Rigoberto Lopez, Keenan Marchesi, Sandro Steinbach
{"title":"Dollar store expansion and independent grocery retailer contraction","authors":"Rigoberto Lopez,&nbsp;Keenan Marchesi,&nbsp;Sandro Steinbach","doi":"10.1002/aepp.13398","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aepp.13398","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 independent grocery retailers quitting the business. These adverse entry effects are three times larger in rural than urban areas. Event studies indicate that the negative impact on sales and employment disappears gradually in urban areas but persists in rural communities. We document differences in treatment effects of dollar store entry across regions, retail formats, and time.</p>","PeriodicalId":8004,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy","volume":"46 2","pages":"514-533"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135644134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Global container shipping disruptions, pop-up ports, and US agricultural exports 全球集装箱运输中断、新兴港口和美国农产品出口
IF 5.8 2区 经济学
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Pub Date : 2023-09-29 DOI: 10.1002/aepp.13399
Sandro Steinbach, Xiting Zhuang
{"title":"Global container shipping disruptions, pop-up ports, and US agricultural exports","authors":"Sandro Steinbach,&nbsp;Xiting Zhuang","doi":"10.1002/aepp.13399","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aepp.13399","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 implementation. The average post-event trade effect is 1.0%, leading to limited agricultural export gains of about $18.6 million per month between March and September 2022. These findings suggest that while the program was cost-effective, it had limited success in facilitating US containerized agricultural exports.</p>","PeriodicalId":8004,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy","volume":"46 2","pages":"553-571"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135199084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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