We address the impacts of regulations designed to reduce pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm laborers. Attention is concentrated on pre-harvest interval regulations that impose a time interval between pesticide application and harvest. The incidence of poisoning is determined by aggregate...

The paper combines health risk generation and economic models to compare the efficiency of the two main types of policies to reduce worker injury from toxic substances: occupational safety regulations designed to limit exposure to toxic substances and taxes and bans that are intended to reduce...

The paper examines the influence of factor price risk on factor-use efficiency through the adoption of conservation technology. The effect of a mean-preserving increase in factor price risk on optimal input-use efficiency is shown to be conditional on the own-price elasticity of factor use...