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| Carter, Michael R.; Maluccio, John A.. |
| South African households live in an environment characterized by risks, and many face a significant probability of experiencing economic losses that threaten their daily subsistence. Using household panel data that include directly solicited information on economic shocks and employing household fixed-effects estimation, we explore how well households cope with shocks by examining the effects of shocks on child nutritional status. Unlike in the idealized village community, some households appear unable to insure against risk, particularly when others in their communities simultaneously suffer large losses. Households in communities with more social capital, however, seem better able to weather shocks. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Health Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16401 |
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| Gilmour, Brad; Gurung, Rajendra Kumar. |
| With a population of about 1.1 billion, India is expected to overtake China as the world's most populous country by 2030. India's economy ranks as Asia's third largest, after Japan and China, and is now one of the world's fastest growing. While growth has led to significant reductions in poverty, India still ranks among the world's low income countries in terms of income per capita. Nevertheless, economic growth has resulted in a burgeoning middle-class. India's agriculture sector accounts for 18% of GDP, and employs around 60% of the workforce. Rice, wheat, cotton, oilseeds, jute, tea, sugarcane, milk and potatoes are India's major agricultural commodities. With its growing urban middle-class and increasing influence in global affairs, India's policies... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: India; Economic growth; Agricultural policy; Water scarcity; Market regulations; Agriculture; Water; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Land Economics/Use; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46456 |
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| Levesque, Benoit; Mendell, Marguerite. |
| This document provides an overview of selected theoretical and empirical approaches to define a research proposal for a new CURA (Community- University Research Alliance) on the social economy to be launched in 2005. The authors’ goal is also to spark the interest of researchers in the social economy. With this in mind, the first section represents an attempt to provide a theoretical and empirical framework for the social economy, drawing on complementary concepts such as the third sector, where appropriate. In the second section, we emphasize the need for an inventory of innovative practices in the field and for statistics to quantify the activities of the social economy and the resources involved. In the third section, we identify the main research... |
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Palavras-chave: Institutional and Behavioral Economics. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59959 |
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| Knox, Anna; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela. |
| Policies to devolve responsibility for natural resource management to local bodies have become widespread in the past 20 years. Although the theoretical advantages of user management have been convincing and the impetus for devolution policies strong, the actual outcomes of devolution programs in various sectors and countries have been mixed. This paper summarizes key research findings on factors that contribute to effective devolution programs in the forestry, fisheries, irrigation, and rangelands sectors, which were presented and discussed at an international Policy Workshop on Property Rights, Collective Action and Devolution of Natural Resource Management, June 21-25, 1999, in Puerto Azul, the Philippines. We begin by addressing the language of... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55437 |
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| Moore, Rebecca. |
| This paper compares three approaches to using attitudinal data to describe heterogeneous preferences for non-market goods. Two latent class models and one random parameter logit model are included. Each model makes different assumptions about the role of attitudes in the decision process. Specifically, each model assumes a different relationship between attitudes and preferences and these differences are discussed in terms of economic and social psychology theory. The three models are then used to examine individual preferences for water clarity improvements in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The results suggest that the choice of models has important implications on the quantitative results and on the nature of the preference heterogeneity, but does not affect the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Public Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6488 |
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| Charry, Al A.; Parton, Kevin A.; Murray-Prior, Roy B.; Crockett, Judith; Gardner, M.W.; Johnson, Sue; Livingstone, S.. |
| Under the sponsorship of the University of Sydney, on 5-6th December 2002 the future of farm management in Australia was discussed. The fundamental conclusion achieved by key primary industry representatives, corporate executives, academics, consultants and researchers is that farm management will have a more significant role to play in the future than previously in servicing the primary sector. The idea of farm management as a profession was proposed. Its basis would be business management supported by farming systems and technology, and using an holistic approach to action (i.e. finance, people and environment). The new profession of Farm Business Management would seek to influence education, research, consultancy and extension in Australia. Interested... |
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Palavras-chave: Institutional and Behavioral Economics. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24390 |
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| Jungcurt, Stefan. |
| Functional overlap in the jurisdiction and competencies of international agreements can lead to incomplete and contradicting regulation, which erodes benefits form international cooperation. The framework developed in this paper seeks to further the theoretical analysis of the domestic and international determinants for the origin and the persistence of such incoherence. Using international regulation on the conservation of plant genetic resources as an illustrative example I address two theoretical challenges the problem of cross-level inference in theories of international cooperation and the differentiation of processes of substantial bargaining from those of negotiated institutional change. Substantial bargains can be formally analyzed as two-level... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18841 |
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| Pereira, Claudia Maria Miranda de Araujo; Raimundo Melo, Mario; Dias, Pedro Bernardo. |
| The objective of this paper is to characterize the production of roses at the region of Barbacena and to identify its transaction attributes, that is, asset specificity, transaction frequency, and uncertainty. The research is based on the theoretical framework of the New Institutions Economy which allows the use of qualitative methods in order to understand in depth the study object. The results have shown that rose producers in the region of Barbacena seek to demand the requirements of their customers, but they perceive the need of improvement in the productive chain through associations and contractual relations, informal ones included, among the agents involved in the agribusiness of roses. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Rosas; Nova economia das Instituições e especificidade; Roses; New economics of Institutions; Specificity; Crop Production/Industries; Institutional and Behavioral Economics. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/102005 |
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| Poray, Michael C.; Foster, Kenneth A.; Dorfman, Jeffrey H.. |
| Structural change in meat consumption has been the focus of many researchers during the last two decades. In this paper we develop a dynamic linear Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) model from a cost function that allows for time varying parameters. This model is consistent with inertia in the parameters of the cost and indirect utility functions. It allows for persistent preferences which may arise from cultural biases, lifestyles, peer pressure, etc. An empirical application is conducted with US meat consumption and price data using a generalized system of flexible least squares, Generalized Flexible Least Squares (GFLS). GFLS allows parameters to evolve slowly over time through incorporating of penalties in fluctuations. Estimated quarterly... |
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Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; Institutional and Behavioral Economics. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21796 |
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| Medicamento, Umberto; Wilson, Paul N.; Rahman, Tauhidur; Thompson, Gary D.. |
| Social Network Capital and Academic Careers: The Case of a College of Agriculture ABSTRACT The relationship between economic performance and various forms of capital anchors a significant portion of mainstream economic theory and applied economics. Human, physical and financial capital represent important factors in the production of goods and services. The label “capital” implies characteristics such as investment, accumulation, maintenance, depreciation, and transfer. Recently, social capital or social network capital (SNC) has received increased scholarly attention in the literature of sociology, business, and economics. Limited analysis, however, has been directed at the role of SNC in the academy. We hypothesize that academic success at the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Social capital; Academic networks; Human capital; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Labor and Human Capital; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61072 |
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