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Effects of U.S. Public Agricultural R&D on U.S. Obesity and its Social Costs

Alston, Julian M.; Okrent, Abigail M.; Parks, Joanna - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013

How much has food abundance, attributable to U.S. public agricultural R&D, contributed to the high and rising U ….S. obesity rates? In this paper we investigate the effects of public investment in agricultural R&D on food prices, per capita … implied changes in prices and quantities consumed of nine categories of food for given changes in research expenditures …

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AI and its Impact on the Indonesian Economy: a CGE Approach

Oktaviani, Rina - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006

Virus H5N1 is confirmed as the cause of AI in Indonesia as well as in other Asia countries. A possible human pandemic from AI has economic implications and may affect consumer behavior as well as other sectors such as tourist, trade and transportation. A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE)...

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Conceptualizing Informality: Regulation and Enforcement

Kanbur, Ravi - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2009

The informality discourse is large, vibrant and expanding fast. But there is a certain conceptual incoherence to the literature. New definitions of informality compete with old definitions leading to a plethora of alternative conceptualisations. While some individual studies may apply a tight...

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Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Infant Health: Evidence from Pennsylvania

Hill, Elaine L. - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2012

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CONSUMERS’ PREFERENCES, CREDENCE GOODS AND THE WTO SPS AGREEMENT

MacLaren, Donald - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2003

consumers’ preferences for food safety or for other information about food, play no part in the Agreement. The purpose in this … paper is to argue that consumers’ preferences should be taken into account for food products which possess the credence …

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Groundwater Quality Policy under Uncertainty

Lichtenberg, Erik; Penn, Tony - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 1996

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Do Participants in Well Water Testing Programs Update Their Exposure and Health Risk Perceptions?

Poe, Gregory L.; van Es, Harold; VandenBerg, Timothy P.; … - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 1996

Using data from two studies that elicited nitrate health risk and exposure perceptions before and after a well testing program, this paper investigates whether participants update their risk perceptions with new infonnation. Graphical analyses demonstrate that, in the aggregate, updating occurs...

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The Dynamics of Poverty in Urban Ethiopia

Gebremedhin, Tesfaye A. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006

The paper examines poverty in urban Ethiopia using household survey data for 1994 and 2000. Consumption poverty is found to be high, with an overall head count of 47 per cent, in 1994, and 40 per cent, in 2000. As monetary measures may not appropriately capture welfare in non-monetary dimensions...

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'Local Milk for Local Schools?': Children Dairy Consumption Behaviours, Willingness to Pay and Health in Indonesia

Permani, Risti; Nuryartono, Nunung; Wardani, Fikria Ulfa; … - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2015

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Intergenerationalities: Some Educational Questions on Quality, Quantity and Opportunity

Kanbur, Ravi - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2009

This paper raises a number of issues in thinking about and addressing the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. Starting with choice subject to constraints by parents as determining outcomes for children, the paper identifies sequences of interventions to relieve “binding...

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