{"title":"Preferences and willingness to pay for a novel carbon label: A choice experiment in the United States","authors":"Wen Lin, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr., Wei Yang","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.116","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.116","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates how US consumers respond to and value a new technology-based carbon label on food products. Results indicate that individual valuation of the carbon-labeled bread is $4/20 oz, marginally lower than the valuation of the conventional and organic bread products. Moreover, individuals belonging to certain market segments, such as non-White, liberal, and well-educated consumers, and those having a high level of knowledge about the causes of climate change, exhibit a higher valuation for the novel carbon label.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 2","pages":"346-357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.116","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140366494","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":"Efficiency and productivity growth in US food manufacturing industries: Exporters, ownership changes, and firm characteristics","authors":"Pinar Celikkol Geylani","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.113","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.113","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study employs a stochastic production frontier framework to measure productivity growth among exporters, non-exporters, and firms experiencing ownership changes through mergers and acquisitions in US food manufacturing. Analyzing a panel data set that integrates Economic Censuses and transaction-level exports, the results reveal the coexistence of more productive exporters, driven by technical efficiency, alongside less productive non-exporters. Exporters in arm's length transactions show productivity growth driven by technical efficiency change, while those in related party transactions benefit mainly from technological change. Firms undergoing ownership changes exhibit positive productivity growth with a greater contribution from technical efficiency compared to those without such changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 2","pages":"311-329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140366422","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":"Intertemporal comparison of cost and technical efficiencies using a base period approach for the Korean rice industry","authors":"Jeongseung Kim, Chanjin Chung","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.117","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.117","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 <p>Objectives of our study are to develop a procedure for intertemporal comparison of both technical and cost efficiency and estimate farm efficiency for the Korean rice industry from 2003 to 2017. The newly developed base-year procedure excludes frontier shift and price effects from the standard procedure for intertemporal comparison. An adjusted central limit theorem for sample T-tests is applied to avoid potential bias from efficiency scores by the Data Envelope Analysis. Our empirical results show that the two procedures yield different scores and trends. The standard approach indicates declining efficiency, while the base-year method shows overall improvement in farm efficiency.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 2","pages":"358-375"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.117","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140248643","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}
Joohun Han, Khondoker A. Mottaleb, John N. Ng'ombe, Alvaro Durand-Morat
{"title":"Does sin tax on the legal market facilitate the illicit market? An ex-ante assessment on the US cannabis market","authors":"Joohun Han, Khondoker A. Mottaleb, John N. Ng'ombe, Alvaro Durand-Morat","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.114","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.114","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sin tax is essential to reduce the harm caused by products like cannabis. However, excessive taxation may facilitate illicit markets. We examine sin tax policies' impact on legal and illicit cannabis markets in the selected US states. Using a Constant Elasticity of Substitution utility framework, we assess scenarios like sin tax increase and anti-illicit cannabis policies. Our findings indicate high sin taxes may drive consumers to illicit markets, but anti-illicit market policies could control its extent. However, there is a trade-off between market size, tax revenue, consumers' utility, and illicit market control. Thus, optimizing sin tax policies is challenging, necessitating a second-best approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 2","pages":"330-345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140258830","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}
Paul Mwebaze, Sarina Macfadyen, Paul De Barro, Anton Bua, Andrew Kalyebi, Irene Bayiyana, Fred Tairo, John Colvin
{"title":"Adoption determinants of improved cassava varieties and intercropping among East and Central African smallholder farmers","authors":"Paul Mwebaze, Sarina Macfadyen, Paul De Barro, Anton Bua, Andrew Kalyebi, Irene Bayiyana, Fred Tairo, John Colvin","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.112","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.112","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A key constraint to cassava productivity in Africa is the lack of adoption of improved cassava varieties tolerant to pests and diseases. To understand the drivers of adoption behavior, we examine the simultaneous adoption of improved cassava varieties and intercropping by 1200 smallholder farmers in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda. Using a linear model, we find that varietal characteristics, such as yield and early maturity, are critical drivers of adoption. Access to extension and credit is associated with an increase in the attractiveness of yield-improving characteristics. We conclude that a more targeted extension approach would increase technology adoption in these countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 2","pages":"292-310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.112","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140079518","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":"Bias in economic evaluation of variable rate application based on geographically weighted regression models with misspecified functional form","authors":"Taro Mieno, Xiaofei Li, David S. Bullock","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.102","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.102","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Geographically weighted regression (GWR) has been presented as a valuable tool for estimating site-specific yield response functions to derive recommendations of variable rate input. This study employs Monte Carlo simulations to illustrate that if GWR assumes a quadratic yield response functional form while the actual yield-input relationship is quadratic-plateau, it can significantly overestimate the economic value of variable rate application compared to its true value. Practitioners in precision agriculture should exercise caution when utilizing GWR for site-specific input recommendations. Statistical community is also encouraged to develop tools in software packages providing GWR that allow more flexibility in functional form assumptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"135-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140080198","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}
Daemyung Lee, Le Chen, Roderick M. Rejesus, Serkan Aglasan, Robert Dinterman, Lawson Connor
{"title":"The effect of crop insurance on agricultural loan delinquencies","authors":"Daemyung Lee, Le Chen, Roderick M. Rejesus, Serkan Aglasan, Robert Dinterman, Lawson Connor","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.109","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.109","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study addresses how participation in the Federal crop insurance program influences agricultural loan delinquencies. To achieve this objective, we use 1994–2015 county-level panel data for corn production in the Midwestern United States (US). Traditional linear fixed effect (FE) models, instrumental variable-based FE estimation, and several robustness checks are used in the empirical analysis. Estimation results suggest that counties with higher levels of crop insurance participation tend to have statistically lower rates of agricultural loan delinquency. This is evidence that the US crop insurance program helps reduce financial stress and facilitates the continued viability of the agricultural credit system.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"256-274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140080271","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":"Economywide impacts of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program","authors":"Jessica Osanya, Jeffrey J. Reimer","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.115","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Most Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) research focuses on individuals who receive SNAP without examining the effects on the broader economy. We develop a general equilibrium model of the US economy to quantify SNAP's broader fiscal consequences. We find that SNAP expands the agricultural and food sectors by about 1% while slightly shrinking service sectors favored by higher income households. Effects on goods and factor prices are modest, with virtually no deadweight losses associated with the taxation needed to fund SNAP. SNAP improves the welfare of low-income recipient households by 4.9%, while having a negligible adverse effect on high-income households.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"275-288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.115","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140135353","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":"Recovering from natural disaster through exports: The case of 2010 Pakistan flood and EU tariff waiver on Pakistan textile exports","authors":"Arusha Ijaz, Jisang Yu","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.108","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The objective of this study is to estimate the impact of a unilateral tariff waiver to Pakistan from the EU, intended as a relief package after the 2010 floods, on cotton exports and production in the country. We use the Synthetic Control Method and the Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator to assess the impact of the 2010 flood and the 2012 tariff waiver. Our findings suggest that the 2010 flood in Pakistan and the subsequent 2012 tariff waiver had limited impacts on cotton exports and production in Pakistan.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"242-255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.108","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140135470","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}
Chanheung Cho, Zachary Brown, Kevin Gross, Daniel Tregeagle
{"title":"Developing practical measures of the price of pesticide resistance: A flexible computational framework with global sensitivity analysis","authors":"Chanheung Cho, Zachary Brown, Kevin Gross, Daniel Tregeagle","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.107","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Pesticide resistance poses an increasing challenge for agricultural sustainability. Pesticide susceptibility is a depletable biological resource, but resistance management rarely quantifies marginal, forward-looking economic costs to users of depletion. To facilitate the development of such costs, we use a generic stochastic bioeconomic model of resistance evolution in a crop pest population, stochastic dynamic programming, and global sensitivity analysis to analyze the “marginal user costs” of resistance. The most impactful parameters are population density dependence and pesticide prices. The least impactful is the fitness cost of resistance, which is noteworthy because of prior emphasis on this parameter in the resistance management literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"212-227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140135350","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}