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SPATIAL EFFECTS OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS ON ILLEGAL DEFORESTATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
(2019)Deforestation worldwide is a major concern. In developing countries, it is a merciless and devastating reality. My thesis addresses how local governance institutions' strength influences this phenomenon, focusing on the ... -
State Review of Environmental Impacts Could Result in Mineral Leasing Opportunities in Maryland
(2014-05)Starting in 2007, many western Maryland landowners saw increased oil and gas leasing as gas companies further developed the Marcellus Shale which contains one of the largest known natural gas reserves in the world. The ... -
Stated Preference Methods and Models: Analyzing Recreational Angling in New England Groundfisheries
(2011)Policy analysis of nonmarket goods requires accurate knowledge about the behavior of economic agents. This dissertation explores several facets of behavior models in recreational angling for three New England groundfish ... -
A STRUCTURAL MODEL OF INSECT CONTROL DECISIONS: ROOTWORM RESISTANCE IN US CORN FIELDS
(2014)Recent evidence from field tests and laboratory studies suggest that rootworms are adapting to the toxins produced by genetically modified, insect resistant (Bt) seeds. Given that rootworms cause over 1 billion dollars in ... -
Supplemental Coverage Option Expanding as Part of the Farm Safety Net
(2016-09-08)The 2014 Farm Bill created Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO), a new add-on crop insurance option which provides supplemental coverage on a producer’s underlying crop insurance policy. SCO operates by mimicking a producer’s ... -
Supplemental Coverage Option Now a Part of the Federal Crop Insurance Program
(2015-01)The 2014 Farm Bill created Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO), a new add-on crop insurance option which provides supplemental coverage on a producer’s underlying crop insurance policy. SCO operates by mimicking a producer’s ... -
Taxes and Land Preservation: Computing the Capital Gains Tax
(2014-12)Selling development rights or easements has tax implications for landowners, especially those who have owned their farms for a long period of time and seen land values escalate. This fact sheet discusses some of the ... -
Tenure Security, Land Markets, and Household Income: Procede and the Impact of the 1992 Reform in Mexico
(2004-04-27)In 1992, the Salinas administration launched a major reform liberalizing several aspects of Mexico's ejido sector. The reform is to be understood as a major effort at introducing and enforcing clearly defined property ... -
Three Empirical Studies in Market Design
(2009)Market design is the development of mechanisms that improve market efficiency and build on an understanding of the interaction between human behavior and market rules. The first chapter considers the sale of a charitable ... -
THREE ESSAYS IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2014)The first chapter derives an empirically testable set of propositions on the determinants of environmental aid as a non-market solution for trans-border pollution. The donor country balances environmental benefits against ... -
Three Essays on Coffee Markets
(2008-01-11)Among the most prominent contributions of agricultural economists to the development field is the analysis of issues in commodity marketing. The topics include the role of competition among market intermediaries in determining ... -
Three Essays on Non-Balanced Economic Growth, Economic Geography, and the Regulation of Public Land in the United States
(2014)This dissertation is comprised of three essays. The first essay, "The Spatial Consequences of Non-Balanced Growth," develops a theoretical model of regional development to analyze the consequences of non-balanced growth ... -
Three Quasi-Experimental and Experimental Papers in Environmental Economics
(2011)This dissertation utilizes quasi-experimental and experimental techniques to contribute to the literature on environmental and resource economics in three distinct ways but with the overarching goal of demonstrating the ... -
To bid or not to bid: An investigation into economic incentives underling auction participation
(2012)This dissertation investigates the individual characteristics correlated with auction participation decisions using data from two commercial fishing license buybacks. I use the joint empirical analysis of stated and revealed ... -
Trend-Adjusted Yield Option Introduced for Crop Insurance
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Trend-Adjusted Yield Option Introduced for Crop Insurance
(2014-08)Fact sheet has been updated to reflect wheat trend adjustments for 2015 crop year.