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

    Creator:
    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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    of the sufficient statistics approach is to derive an equation from structural economic models

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

    Creator:
    Lim, Youngah
    Abstract:
    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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    . Because NZMS economic damages and related management cost are not yet fully identified in the literature

  • Recreational Boating and the Spread of Eurasian Watermilfoil - Determinants of Boater Demand and the Costs of Prevention Efforts in Wisconsin

    Creator:
    Kovski, Nicole
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    In the case of lake management for recreational use, policy makers often face a balancing act. They must maintain both the ecological quality of sites and the welfare of recreationists. In Wisconsin's Northern Highland Lake District, recreational boaters inadvertently transport aquatic invasive species between lakes. Economic models of boater demand...
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     transport aquatic invasive species between lakes. Economic models of boater demand for lake recreation

  • Spatial heterogeneity, meta-analysis and spatial dependence : three essays on environmental valuation and spatial land management decisions

    Creator:
    Bu, Meidan
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    This dissertation consists of three essays that collectively address the importance of accounting for spatial heterogeneity and spatial dependence of environmental assets and natural resources in policy making. The first essay examines the value of different wetland ecosystem services using an expanded meta-dataset of valuation studies in North America. The...
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    functions, and site-specific geographic, demographic and socio-economic characteristics. This essay used

  • The relationship between vehicle miles traveled and economic activity

    Creator:
    Eckstein, Nathan
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    Vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the U.S. have exhibited an upward trend over time similar to that observed for GDP and personal income. While conventional wisdom suggests that economic growth leads to more driving and thus higher VMT, it is theoretically possible that the causation could also be the other...
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    Relationship Between Vehicle Miles Traveled and Economic Activity Abstract approved

  • Determinants of household vehicle miles traveled in Oregon

    Creator:
    Holder, Daniel R.
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    This study models the household demand for vehicle miles traveled with a focus on the effects from bicycle ridership and transit ridership. Through the use of data from the Oregon Household Activity Survey collected on behalf of the Oregon Department of Transportation, evidence is found that households participating in bicycle...
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    uses household level socio-economic data, as well as the households’ vehicle and travel patterns, to

  • Essays on ethanol-driven corn demand and crop choice

    Creator:
    Marshall, Kandice Kleiber
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    Two essays are focused on crop choice and the growth of corn production in the Corn Belt and surrounding areas. The first essay develops a partially degenerate nested logit model to examine the effect of price islands and local ethanol capacity on corn production and crop mix. The primary data...
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    hope to encourage other people the way that you have encouraged me. I would like to thank Economic

  • Land use policy and property value

    Creator:
    Grout, Cyrus A.
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    A plethora of land use policies are implemented at the local, state, and federal levels to influence the manner in which land is utilized. The distribution of the costs and benefits associated with implementing such land use policies always has been, and will continue to be, a source of contention....
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    of land and incentives for voluntary conservation. The first essay addresses the economic issues

  • An exploration of water quality in the United States using an Environmental Kuznets Curve framework

    Creator:
    Latané, Annah M.
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    This study seeks to explore the determinants of the relationship of economic growth and water quality in the United States using an Environmental Kuznets Curve framework. Specifically this study seeks to determine whether there is evidence of improvement in water quality since passage of the 1972 amendments to the Clean...
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    study seeks to explore the determinants of the relationship of economic growth and water quality in

  • Maximizing urban property values through open space conservation

    Creator:
    Oakley, Winston
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    This study investigates the share of open space that maximizes total private property values in urban areas. Open space poses a number of trade-offs to city managers. On the one hand, previous studies have shown that certain kinds of open space can increase property values, which tends to increase tax...
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    subject to the same economic forces that influence nearby residential values. To investigate this