Published November 1929. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
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component of Home Economics since the early 1900s. It is,
however, an enigmatic behavior that has not yielded easily
to research. Recognizing that meal provision and food
consumption by families incorporate management processes
and occur on a regular and frequent basis,...
Economic methodology is revisited to address issues in
fishery management, and survival analysis is suggested as an
analytical tool to solve the uncertainty problem in
evolutionary economics. Survival analysis can clarify in
statistical terms the impacts of fishery regulation and
economic and biological changes on the fisherman's final
decisions of...