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Sample Farmer Resume
(2015-01)Sample resume that a producer could use to help demonstrate to a landlord how the producer operates his/her farm. -
Seafood Safety Regulations: Do They Make Our Food Safer?
(CANRP, 2012-01-06)How do new federal guidelines for food safety affect the behavior of seafood processors? How well are they working? Could they be improved? Dr. Anna Alberini and Dr. Erik Lichtenberg at the University of Maryland take a ... -
Self-regulation, productivity, and nonlinear pricing. Three essays on quality production in agricultural markets
(2006-05-16)In this dissertation I analyze the quality choices of a group of producers. In the first essay I use mechanism design to study the interaction of asymmetric information and the democratic process in the quality choices of ... -
SERVICE QUALITY AND ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION IN THE REGULATION OF MONOPOLIES: THE CHILEAN ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION INDUSTRY
(2008-01-03)This study is an enquiry about the role that service quality, asymmetric information, scope of regulation and regulator's preferences play in the regulation of monopolies, with an application to the case of the Chilean ... -
Simulated Trading for Maryland’s Nitrogen Loadings in the Chesapeake Bay: A Policy Overlook
(CANRP, 2012-04-13)Jim Hanson and Ted McConnell looked at whether decreasing nutrients into the Bay could cost less if trading is permitted. Rather than having the sewage treatment plants install new technology (high cost), these sewage ... -
Social Preferences Among Clinicians in Tanzania: Evidence from the Lab and the Field
(2011)Health worker effort can have a dramatic influence on patient outcomes. This is especially true in developing countries, where poor overall quality of healthcare systems is the norm. There is evidence, however, that despite ... -
Soil - From Texture to Structure to Sustainability
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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 ...