{"title":"Consumer acceptance of genetically engineered potatoes: The role of information and agreement","authors":"Katherine Lacy, Jonathan McFadden","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.80","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.80","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many foods cooked at high temperatures produce acrylamide, a probable carcinogen, and neurotoxin. We evaluate how consumers' purchase intentions for potato products and subjective knowledge about conventional foods, genetically engineered (G.E.) foods, and acrylamide respond to information treatments. Information and prior purchases positively influence intentions to purchase potatoes but negatively influence purchase intentions for potato chips and French fries. Value-of-information calculations suggest industry-focused and private-company perspectives are worth $0.01-$0.02/person per month. Our results have practical implications for food system actors seeking to better understand the broader determinants of consumer acceptance behaviors as they relate to G.E. foods that reduce health concerns.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"2 4","pages":"634-652"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.80","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135291324","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}
Jason S. Bergtold, Jerrod Penn, Kathryn A. Boys, Kristin Kiesel, Mariah D. Ehmke, Bhagyashree Katare
{"title":"Undergraduate enrollment intentions and willingness-to-pay for online to in-person teaching modalities: Capturing heterogeneity across and within universities in the United States during the pandemic","authors":"Jason S. Bergtold, Jerrod Penn, Kathryn A. Boys, Kristin Kiesel, Mariah D. Ehmke, Bhagyashree Katare","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.87","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.87","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study analyzes undergraduate students' enrollment intentions and preferences for alternate teaching modalities during the pandemic under a range of reopening scenarios and flexible teaching modalities to investigate the value of flexible learning options and campus life offerings for students. Using primary survey data from six land-grant universities, our findings suggest that there is no one-size-fits-all policy for tackling significant shocks like the pandemic. Business-as-usual was the most divisive, with wide differences in preferences both within and across universities. These results have important implications for future responses to major disruptions in higher education.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"2 4","pages":"718-736"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.87","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135679484","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":"Analyzing behavioral factors of willingness to pay for sustainability","authors":"Mariam Ishaq, Deepthi Kolady, Carola Grebitus","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.86","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.86","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Consumption of sustainably produced food enables consumers to contribute to greenhouse gas emission reduction. Using choice experiment data, this study analyzes the effect of socio-demographics and behavioral factors on consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for sustainably produced beefsteak. Results show increased WTP for traceable beefsteak raised carbon-friendly and humanely. Behavioral factors, such as, lifestyle is affecting this WTP more than socio-demographics and psychographic characteristics. Findings highlight the importance of labeling standards and policies in promoting green consumer behavior targeting lifestyle characteristics.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"2 4","pages":"703-717"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.86","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135814196","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":"Unintended effects of preferential tax assessment on farmland protection: Evidence from Utah's farmland assessment act","authors":"Wai Yan Siu, Man Li, Arthur J. Caplan","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.88","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.88","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines the effect of Utah's Greenbelt program, the state's preferential tax-assessment effort to protect farmland, using an instrumental variable-fixed effects strategy. We find that an unintended effect of the program leads to more conversion of agricultural land to development than the protection it provides. The protection effect is concentrated on parcels with smaller agricultural areas, while conversion occurs on parcels with larger agricultural areas. Our findings shed light on the rationale of a proposed amendment to the policy—Utah House Bill 25—which did not pass during the 2016 legislative session.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"2 4","pages":"737-752"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.88","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136103164","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":"Farm-level evaluation of area- and agroclimatic-based index insurance","authors":"Francis Tsiboe, Jesse Tack, Jisang Yu","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.77","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.77","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We utilize over 190,000 historical farm-level dryland row-crop yield observations (corn, sorghum, soybeans, and winter wheat) spanning over 7000 Kansas farms from 1973 to 2018 coupled with agroclimatic variables to assess the performance of a broad range of weather- and area-based insurance products. Results showed substantial levels of basis risk across agroclimatic-based indices, limited ability to reduce income variability under fair pricing, and underperformance relative to area-based yield products. Growth-stage specific heat indices for corn and soybeans may offer an effective risk management tool. Implications in the context of current agricultural policy initiatives and climate change adaptation are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"2 4","pages":"616-633"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.77","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135618001","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":"An experiment on the link between risk preferences and the willingness to become a farmer","authors":"Lukas B. Nainggolan, Jens Rommel","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.85","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.85","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates the link between risk preferences of agricultural students and their willingness to become a farmer. We conducted an incentivized experiment with 577 students of an agricultural university in Indonesia. Discriminating between alternative theories of decision-making under risk, we find that students' risk preferences behave in accordance with cumulative prospect theory, but risk preferences are not predictive of students' willingness to become a farmer. Framing the experimental lottery task in either an agricultural or a general entrepreneurship context does not alter the predictive power for the willingness to become a farmer. Our results contribute to the debates on risk and farm generational renewal, as well as the (lack of) parallelism in behavioral field experiments.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"2 4","pages":"686-702"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.85","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136359655","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":"Food inflation, agri-food trade, and COVID-19: Evidence from South Asia","authors":"Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor, Sunghun Lim","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.83","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.83","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected food security by disrupting supply chains through border closures Our study concentrates on South Asia and examines the interplay between COVID-19, agri-food trade, and inflation using monthly panel data spanning 2018–2021. Our findings demonstrate that the pandemic notably escalated food inflation in the region. Nevertheless, the robust interaction of agri-food trade with COVID-19 helped alleviate this effect. This underscores the significance of trade policies in controlling food inflation during the pandemic in South Asia.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"2 4","pages":"653-667"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.83","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816045","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}
Thies Petersen, Milan Tatic, Monika Hartmann, Stefan Hirsch
{"title":"Meat and meat substitutes—A hedonic-pricing model for the German market","authors":"Thies Petersen, Milan Tatic, Monika Hartmann, Stefan Hirsch","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.84","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.84","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, a hedonic pricing model with a stochastic frontier is applied to a sample of 183,717 observations of product sales of sausages in Germany to determine the valuation of attributes in the market. The average price of sausages is 1.14€/100 g, with meat substitutes valued at 1.53€/100 g and meat sausages at 1.01€/100 g. Our results show that credence attributes can induce a price premium, but that the effect strongly depends on the type of attribute. This may be important for deriving marketing strategies, as uniform measures may not be effective for both markets.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"2 4","pages":"668-685"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.84","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816614","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":"An empirical analysis of US land-use change under multiple climate change scenarios","authors":"Christopher M. Mihiar, David J. Lewis","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.82","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.82","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study empirically estimates the effects of climate on land-use change across the conterminous United States and uses the empirical model to simulate the effects of a range of future climate change scenarios on the allocation of land to forestry, agriculture, and development. Ricardian estimation linking climate with the net returns to land production is integrated with a discrete-choice estimation of plot-level land-use change. Comparing projected land-use changes across scenarios, we find that drier and warmer climate scenarios favor forest land, wetter and cooler climate scenarios favor developed land, and wetter and warmer climate scenarios favor crop lands.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"2 3","pages":"597-611"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.82","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45011884","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":"Impact of macroeconomic assumptions on United States Department of Agriculture's baseline farm income projections","authors":"Hari P. Regmi, Todd H. Kuethe","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.81","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.81","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) agricultural baseline projections are important in shaping US agricultural policy. We investigate the degree to which previous findings of bias and inefficiency of USDA baseline projections of farm income and its components are driven by underlying macroeconomic assumptions. Once we control for the deviation of underlying macroeconomic assumptions from their observed path, we find that USDA projections of net cash income and its components are optimal for 73.3% of the projection horizons and the length of informative horizons improves. These findings may help USDA projection users, adjust their expectations when making plans and decisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"2 3","pages":"551-566"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.81","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48807924","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}