Social cost of smoking has created much controversy regarding tobacco consumption. Information on distributional implications of legislations that restrict cigarette consumption are important for assessing new policies. Estimates of the benefits of tobacco to alternative sectors of the South...

Reservations on technical and theoretical grounds in the use of the consumer surplus approach to measure benefits of government programs have often appeared in the literature. Therefore, this paper uses an alternative approach in a case study to estimate the annual economic surplus created in...

Previous studies have consistently indicated the anomalous result of a price inflexible demand for pecans. However, these efforts did not have an adequate measure of pecan stocks available and, as a result, stocks were either excluded from consideration or a proxy variable was introduced. A time...