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Three essays on food security, food assistance, and migration

Creator:: Lewin, Paul A.
Abstract:: This dissertation's three essays explore the determinants of food insecurity for rural farm households, the influence of rainfall variability and long-run changes in rainfall levels on the migration decisions of working-age household heads, and the distributional impacts in core and periphery regions of food assistance to households in the hinterland....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : ____________________________________________________ Bruce A. Weber This dissertation’s three essays explore the determinants of food insecurity

Farm and non-farm impact of migration to USA on rural Mexico

Creator:: Vásquez Caballero, Smit
Abstract:: Migration of labor out of rural areas in Mexico is an increasingly important feature of rural development in Mexico. New literature on migration and development suggests that migrants play a role of financial intermediaries, making it possible for households to overcome credit constraints in their capability to attain the transition...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Bruce A. Weber Migration of labor out of rural areas in Mexico is an increasingly important feature

Tax and budget policy in Oregon : a computable general equilibrium perspectives

Creator:: Waters, Edward C
Abstract:: In November 1990, Oregon voters approved Ballot Measure 5, placing an ultimate ceiling on local property tax rates of 1.5% of market value (excluding specific levies for capital expenditure). Any resulting shortfalls in local education revenues are to be made up by transfers from state funds, at the expense of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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An economic and socio-cultural analysis of new farm technology : the case of stabling in Senegal

Creator:: Fisher, Monica Grace
Abstract:: A study is conducted to provide information useful to the future development of agro-pastoralists in the Kolda Region through an economic and socio-cultural analysis of the practice of stabling. Two main issues are addressed: the generation and distribution of profits and the factors related to adoption of stabling. A partial...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: Bruce Weber A study is conducted to provide information usethi to the future development of

Building Economically Resilient Rural Communities

Creator:: Sorte, Bruce Michael
Abstract:: Rural communities will continue to be disproportionately shocked by economic fluctuations. Market forces are likely to lead to the decline of many rural communities and they will need to be economically resilient to survive. This thesis draws on several social sciences and the natural sciences to develop ideas that communities...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Communities. Abstract approved Bruce A. Weber Rural communities will continue to be disproportionately

Out-migration, income and poverty in nonmetropolitan America

Creator:: Marre, Alexander
Abstract:: Why do rural households leave for urban places? And how does this decision affect their economic well-being? Rural places in the United States have higher poverty and unemployment rates and lower levels of educational attainment relative to urban places. Does leaving a rural place for a city offer a pathway...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Abstract approved: Bruce A. Weber Why do rural households leave for urban places? And how does

Retirees and local governments in Oregon : an empirical study of the Tiebout sorting hypotheses

Creator:: Hill, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Brian), 1964-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: Bruce A. Weber Six Oregon counties have been classified as retirement economies by the USDA

Did the Great Recession change SNAP participation behavior? A panel analysis of two Oregon SNAP participant cohorts

Creator:: Carroll, Joanna M.
Abstract:: This analysis explores potential changes in the behavior of Oregon's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants after the 2008 recession. I examine this using individual-level administrative data from the State of Oregon in a linear probability model and a duration model. After controlling for a standard set of factors known...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Cohorts Abstract approved:_________________________________________________ Bruce A. Weber

Employment growth, social capital, and spatial determinants of poverty change

Creator:: Crandall, Mindy S.
Abstract:: This study models poverty changes across the United States between 1990 and 2000 as a function of spatial poverty variables (variables that attempt to capture the spatial effects of poverty and poverty changes), social capital, local employment growth, and demographic controls. Newly available decennial census data at the tract level...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: First, I am greatly indebted to my major professor, Dr. Bruce Weber. He has advised me through the

The relationship of absentee ownership of manufacturing plants to income growth, income inequality and employment instability in Oregon

Creator:: Mandelbaum, Thomas B.
Abstract:: Absentee-owned manufacturing plants made up a significant portion of the manufacturing sector in Oregon. In both 1969 and 1979, more than a quarter of the state's wage and salary manufacturing workers were employed by manufacturers whose home offices were located in other states or nations. Although the orthodox economic view...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: worked with Bruce Weber. His insightful comments, and patient assistance allowed me to complete this

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Three essays on food security, food assistance, and migration

Farm and non-farm impact of migration to USA on rural Mexico

Tax and budget policy in Oregon : a computable general equilibrium perspectives

An economic and socio-cultural analysis of new farm technology : the case of stabling in Senegal

Building Economically Resilient Rural Communities

Out-migration, income and poverty in nonmetropolitan America

Retirees and local governments in Oregon : an empirical study of the Tiebout sorting hypotheses

Did the Great Recession change SNAP participation behavior? A panel analysis of two Oregon SNAP participant cohorts

Employment growth, social capital, and spatial determinants of poverty change

The relationship of absentee ownership of manufacturing plants to income growth, income inequality and employment instability in Oregon

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