Many studies of food demand do not use actual prices but unit values, obtained by dividing expenditures by the quantity consumed. This can bias empirical analyses because unit values are not exogenous market prices; they reflect household food quality choices within each food category. This...

Many studies of food demand do not use actual prices but unit values, obtained by dividing expenditures by the quantity consumed. This can bias empirical analyses because unit values are not exogenous market prices; they reflect household food quality choices within each food category. This...

Contractual breaches are very prevalent in developing countries, such as in China. In order to prevent breaches of contracts, the contractual designs between farmers and agricultural processors (Dragon-Heads Firms) in China, innovate in two ways: organizational innovations and contractual...

Based on decision theory, this paper suggests a four-hurdle model to deal with zero and missing responses in the contingent valuation method with open-ended bidding, which is used to analyze the willingness to pay for blue skies in Beijing where air pollution is known to be very serious. The...

A large number of studies have tested whether per capita incomes are converging, either conditionally or unconditionally, across countries or across regions within countries. However, none of them has investigated the determinants of the speed of convergence when this speed can vary across...

Within the context of significant economic and educational changes, the objective of this paper is to investigate tendencies since the 1980s in the allocation of children’s time between school and work in Mexico and Peru. As measured by school enrollment rates, which have been rising in both...

Books Reviewed include: Management of Shared Groundwater Resources: The Israeli-Palestinian Case with an International Perspective by Eran Peitelson and Marwan Haddad; Rural planning and management by Joe Morris, Alison Bailey, R. Kerry Turner and Ian J. Bateman; Rural Financial Markets in Asia:...

ABSTRACT We conduct a meta‐analysis of studies of consumer demand for animal products in the BRIIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, and China) to gauge how future demands are likely to evolve. The BRIIC countries accounted for more than one‐fourth of global GDP in purchasing...