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| Huang, Ju-Chin; Haab, Timothy C.; Whitehead, John C.. |
| We attempt to value health risks by combining traditional demand impact analysis with direct elicitation of individuals’ risk perceptions of food safety. We examine the impact of multiple risks of related goods on consumption of a risky good. We argue that the consumption of a risky good depends on both its absolute risk level and its relative risks to other risky goods. Seafood consumption in eastern North Carolina was studied. We elicited, in a survey, individual perceived risks as reference points to derive the economic value of reducing health risk in seafood consumption. Revealed and stated data were combined to trace out demand changes in response to absolute and relative risk reductions. Our results show that seafood consumption is affected by the... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Absolute and Relative Risks; Food Borne Health Risk; Revealed and Stated Data; Risk Substitutes; D1; D8; I12; Q21. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42938 |
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| Hendriks, Sheryl L.; Msaki, Mark M.. |
| The impact of smallholder commercialisation on food consumption patterns in a rural community of South Africa was investigated. The consumption patterns, dietary diversity and nutrient intakes of certified and partially certified members of an organic farmers' organisation were compared to data from a random sample of non-member households. Two consecutive survey rounds (n = 200) conducted in November 2004 and March 2005 enabled comparison of dietary diversity, nutrient adequacy (in terms of per household adult female equivalents for energy, iron, and vitamin A) and expenditure elasticities between seasons. Households with members engaged in certified comm ercial organic farming enjoyed greater dietary diversity, improved nutrient intakes com pared to... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food consumption; Nutrition; Farm households; Small holder; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D1; Q12. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25304 |
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| Larochelle, Catherine; Dalton, Timothy J.. |
| Malaria and other transient illnesses have been recognized as factors constraining economic development in tropical countries. The purpose of this paper is to determine the direct and the indirect impact of transient illness shocks, caused primarily by malaria but also including other tropical illness, on family labor use in irrigated rice production in Mali. Family labor is the most important factor of production used in rice production in Mali and transient illness shocks may negatively impact labor supply, production and hence household welfare derived from agricultural income and consumption. Two labor demand models are estimated to determine whether illness does indeed reduce labor supply: one where the dependent variable only includes family labor... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: D1; I0; Q12; Crop Production/Industries; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25314 |
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| Lu, Wencong C.; Xi, Aiqin; Ye, Jian. |
| This paper analyzed Chinese small-scale farmer's response to agricultural risks by using MOTAD model. Based on the household's data from the two villages Wangjia and Damao in Zhejiang province, we established "representative rural household" for each of the sampling villages. The results show that farmers in Zhejiang are quite sensitive to agricultural risks. However, different farming systems, the ratio of agricultural income to total family income, as well as the size of arable land, differentiates their risk response. The decision maker's risk preference not only affects the type of agricultural activities and corresponding scales they selected, but also have further effects on the micro agricultural production structure and stable growth of household's... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farming household; Agricultural risks; Risk response; MOTAD Model; Farm Management; Risk and Uncertainty; D1; C6; D2. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25656 |
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| Harris, James Michael; Williams, Robert P.; Morehart, Mitchell J.; Erickson, Kenneth W.; Mishra, Ashok K.. |
| The financial health of the agricultural economy has been excellent for the past few years, especially with farm income reaching record levels. However, the U.S. economy has experienced a recession and a credit crisis. Although the U.S. farm sector has been mostly shielded from the economic downturn, farm financial stress is still possible under current conditions. Are some U.S. farm businesses, especially those with term debt, poised to experience significant financial stress in 2010? We use the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS), sponsored jointly by USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Agricultural Statistical Service, to help answer this question. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Off-farm income; Farm investment; Double hurdle; Agricultural Finance; Financial Economics; D1; J2. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61528 |
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| Ashraf, Nava; Karlan, Dean S.; Yin, Wesley. |
| Informal lending and savings institutions exist around the world, and often include regular door-to-door deposit collection of cash. Some banks have adopted similar services in order to expand access to banking services in areas that lack physical branches. Using a randomized control trial, we investigate determinants of participation in a deposit collection service and evaluate the impact of offering the service for micro-savers of a rural bank in the Philippines. Of 137 individuals offered the service in the treatment group, 38 agreed to sign-up, and 20 regularly used the service. Take-up is predicted by distance to the bank (a measure of transaction costs of depositing without the service) as well as being married (a suggestion that household bargaining... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Savings behavior; Microfinance; Field experiment; Savings mobilization; Deposit collector; Financial Economics; D1; D9; G1; G2; O1. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28502 |
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| Miyata, Sachiko; Sawada, Yasuyuki. |
| This study examines the factors that influenced poor Indonesian farmers to invest in floating net aquaculture after being relocated due to a reservoir construction project. To compare three primary decision factors, credit accessibility, risk attitudes, and social learning, (i.e., learning effects from others experience), we analyze 16 years of socio-economic retrospective data collected in the field interviews exclusively for this study. Our analysis reveals that credit accessibility and risk attitudes are the most important factors that influence the rate of aquaculture investment. Social learning as well as household education also influences the investment decision significantly. Our results suggest that developmen t projects that involve voluntary... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Household investment decision; Credit constraints; Risk attitudes; Social learning; Panel data; Farm Management; D1; D8; D12; Q22. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25669 |
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| Lybbert, Travis J.; Barrett, Christopher B.; McPeak, John G.; Luseno, Winnie K.. |
| Temporal climate risk weighs heavily on many of the world's poor. Recent advances in model-based climate forecasting have expanded the range, timeliness and accuracy of forecasts available to decision-makers whose welfare depends on stochastic climate outcomes. There has consequently been considerable recent investment in improved climate forecasting for the developing world. Yet, in cultures that have long used indigenous climate forecasting methods, forecasts generated and disseminated by outsiders using unfamiliar methods may not readily gain the acceptance necessary to induce behavioral change. The value of model-based climate forecasts depends critically on the premise that forecast recipients actually use external forecast information to update... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; O1; D1; Q12. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14762 |
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| Rodriguez, Elsa M.; Lupin, Beatriz; Lacaze, Maria Victoria. |
| There is an increasing consumers' concern for food safety and quality and, at the same time, there has been a significant market increment in differentiated or high value products consumption, including organic products. The lack of empirical research in Argentina regarding consumers' awareness of food safety brought our attention. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to analyse consumers' perceptions about the risk and quality attributes of food consumption; and to evaluate the incidence of these factors when buying organic products in Argentina. The Lancaster model (1966) provided the theoretical basis for the use of products attributes and characteristics to analyse the incidence of these attributes in consumers' choices. The data used in this... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food safety; Quality attributes; Consumers; Organics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q18; D1. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25791 |
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| Goodwin, Barry K.; Harper, Daniel C.; Schnepf, Randall D.. |
| Fats and oils play a prominent role in U.S. dietary patterns. Recent concerns over the negative health consequences associated with fats and oils have led many to suspect structural change in demand conditions. Our analysis considers short run (monthly) demand relationships for edible fats and oils. In that monthly quantities of fats and oils are likely to be relatively fixed, an inverse almost ideal demand system specification is used. A smooth transition function is used to model a switching inverse almost ideal demand system that assesses short-run demand conditions for edible fats and oils in the United States. The results suggest that short-run demand conditions for fats and oils experienced a gradual structural shift that began in the late 1980s... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Fats and oils; Inverse demand system; Structural change; Q0; D1. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37858 |
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