This study estimates a hedonic price model for Louisiana rough rice to evaluate the USDA grading system. The parameter estimates suggest that chalky kernel and red rice are significant quality factors that affect prices in the bid/acceptance regional rough rice market. Results also show that...

Poverty is a major threat to the coastal communities specially the estuarine set-beg net fishermen in Bangladesh. This study covers the poverty profiling of this community through traditional approaches as well as sustainable livelihoods approach. The headcount ratio of the investigated villages...

Hedonic pricing models use property value differentials to value changes in environmental quality. If unmeasured quality attributes of residential properties are correlated with an environmental quality measure of interest, conventional methods for estimating implicit prices will be biased....