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  • Examining Agricultural Household Welfare through Output Marketing Choices and Land Market Efficiency : Evidence from Rural India

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    Dickson, Caleb
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    Development research and policy aim to improve household welfare by improving access to assets and economic opportunities (Besley & Burgess 2000; Deininger et al. 2003). In rural and agrarian contexts, these goals may be achieved by well-functioning markets for outputs, inputs, off-farm work, and credit. The status of these markets...
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    improving access to assets and economic opportunities (Besley & Burgess 2000; Deininger et al. 2003). In

  • Essays of Land Use Changes, Open Space, and Water Pollution

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    Hagimoto, Toru
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    Land use is one of the leading factors that cause environmental degradation, such as water pollution, open space contraction and habitat loss. This dissertation consists of three essays. First paper investigates the relationship between land use and water pollution. Combining land use choice model and water pollution data, I simulate...
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    the subsidy that promotes eco-friendly agriculture using fixed effect panel. Using budget as

  • The effects of increased supply and emerging technologies in the forest products industry on rural communities in the northwest U.S.

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    Crandall, Mindy S.
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    The development of a market for currently non-merchantable forest material, such as harvest residues of tops and limbs of trees or small diameter trees, has been suggested as a possible win-win solution that could: (i) provide a financial incentive to help motivate treatments to reduce wildfire risk or restore forest...
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    windowless basement of Peavy, and also helped me greatly with your ecological, economic, and mathematical

  • Improved viewshed modelling for estimating effects of neighboring land uses on property values

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    Gjesdahl, Jacob E.
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    The effect of land uses on neighboring property values is of critical interest to urban planners, developers, and citizens. Property values are in part defined by built structure and lot characteristics, locational attributes (e.g., proximity to amenities and disamenities), and other features such as views from a property. The effects...
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    planning that takes into account the actual economic impacts of each proposed project. Literature

  • Multi-product firms' productivity and export behavior

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    Choi, Jangho
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    The objective of this dissertation is to examine multi-product firms' productivity and export behavior. More specifically, this dissertation estimates productivity of firms that produce and sell multiple products, and the role of productivity in such firms' export behavior. In doing so, this dissertation develops a firm-level gravity approach to test...
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    gravity equation where export flows from firms to consumers is proportional to the product of economic

  • Welfare Effects of the Federal Crop Insurance Program : The Sufficient Statistics Approach

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    Yu, Jialing
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    The publicly subsidized Federal Crop Insurance Program has expanded rapidly in recent decades in the United States. With the reform in the 2014 Farm Bill, the Federal Crop Insurance Program has become the most important component of U.S. farm policies. The primary goal of the program is to provide risk...
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    Northwest Agriculture project. Lastly, I would like to thank my parents and friends for their patient

  • Cost-efficient management of aquatic invasive species : application to New Zealand mudsnails in the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Lim, Youngah
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    By affecting the ecological, pecuniary and aesthetic productivity of ecosystems, invasive species (IS) increase production and management costs to business, while straining public agencies' budgets with monitoring, enforcement and management efforts. Understanding invasion pathways or vectors, and identifying costs and benefits of alternative management strategies are critical to public and...
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    to public and private decision making in agriculture, natural resource and recreation industries

  • Three essays on private landowners' response to incentives for carbon sequestration through forest management and afforestation

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    Kim, Taeyoung
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    This dissertation consists of three essays on private landowners' response to incentives for carbon sequestration in forests. The first essay examines private landowner response to incentives for carbon sequestration through various combinations of intermediate management practices. The second essay focuses on agricultural landowners' willingness to participate in an incentive program...
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    Montgomery supported me to rebuild fundamental economic background, and her warm and kind advices allowed

  • Climate change and trade in a globalized world

    Creator:
    Badau, Flavius
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    Environmental sustainability and economic growth is at the forefront of international policy discussions. There is no question that climate change is happening, but also that countries all around the world aspire to continued economic growth. When it comes to climate change, scientists agree that increased carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions in...
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    Munisamy Gopinath Environmental sustainability and economic growth is at the forefront of

  • Economic Analysis of A Road Usage Charge

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    Ke, Yue
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    This study evaluates the distributional impacts of an alternative public roads finance method, a road usage charge (RUC) fee, on lower income households and rural households in Oregon. While previous research has relied on the 2001 and 2009 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), this research will uses the 2011-2013 Oregon...
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    Economic Analysis of a Road Usage Charge AN ABSTRACT