Abstract Discrete choice experiments are used to collect data that facilitates measurement and understanding of consumer preferences. A sample of 750 respondents was employed to evaluate a new method of best-worst scaling data collection. This new method decreased the number of attributes and questions while discerning preferences for a larger set of attributes through self-stated preference “filter” questions. The new best-worst method resulted in overall equivalent rates of transitivity violations and lower incidences of attribute non-attendance than standard best-worst scaling designs. The new method of best-worst scaling data collection can be successfully employed to efficiently evaluate more attributes while improving data quality.
{"title":"Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a More Efficient Method of Best-Worst Scaling Data Collection","authors":"C. Bir, Michael Delgado, N. Widmar","doi":"10.1017/age.2021.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2021.27","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Discrete choice experiments are used to collect data that facilitates measurement and understanding of consumer preferences. A sample of 750 respondents was employed to evaluate a new method of best-worst scaling data collection. This new method decreased the number of attributes and questions while discerning preferences for a larger set of attributes through self-stated preference “filter” questions. The new best-worst method resulted in overall equivalent rates of transitivity violations and lower incidences of attribute non-attendance than standard best-worst scaling designs. The new method of best-worst scaling data collection can be successfully employed to efficiently evaluate more attributes while improving data quality.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"178 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42795607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Farm diversification is mainly driven by risk mitigation effects and economic gains related to complementarities between production activities. By combining these two aspects, we investigate diversification economies in a sample of French mixed sheep farming systems and rank these systems using stochastic dominance criteria. Partially diversified systems (Sheep-Grass, Sheep-Crop, Sheep-Landless) and fully diversified systems (Sheep-Grass-Crop-Landless) were evaluated. We find a high degree of diversification diseconomies in the sheep farming systems considered. The results also indicate that the fully diversified system is driven by its risk-reducing effects (including downside risk exposure) and that Sheep-Crop is the dominant system in terms of risk-adjusted returns.
{"title":"Economies of diversification and stochastic dominance analysis in French mixed sheep farms","authors":"J. Minviel, M. Benoît","doi":"10.1017/age.2021.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2021.26","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Farm diversification is mainly driven by risk mitigation effects and economic gains related to complementarities between production activities. By combining these two aspects, we investigate diversification economies in a sample of French mixed sheep farming systems and rank these systems using stochastic dominance criteria. Partially diversified systems (Sheep-Grass, Sheep-Crop, Sheep-Landless) and fully diversified systems (Sheep-Grass-Crop-Landless) were evaluated. We find a high degree of diversification diseconomies in the sheep farming systems considered. The results also indicate that the fully diversified system is driven by its risk-reducing effects (including downside risk exposure) and that Sheep-Crop is the dominant system in terms of risk-adjusted returns.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"156 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47212408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tanguy Bernard, Pia Naima Dänzer, M. Frölich, Hiroki Sasaki, Naoki Katayama, Robert D. Mohr, C. Cunningham, Shana McDermott
{"title":"AGE volume 50 issue 3 Cover and Front matter","authors":"Tanguy Bernard, Pia Naima Dänzer, M. Frölich, Hiroki Sasaki, Naoki Katayama, Robert D. Mohr, C. Cunningham, Shana McDermott","doi":"10.1017/age.2021.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2021.29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"f1 - f3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45428359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Whereas, addressing food insecurity sheds light on public health problems in weight control, nutritional monitoring, and chronic and life-threatening illnesses (Campbell, 1991;Gunderson and Ziliak, 2015;Seligman etal., 2007, 2010), which are generally attributable to economic disparities (Coleman-Jenson etal. 2018). [...]food insecurity has increased as a result of labor market pressures, leading to joblessness, income losses, and supply chain disruptions (United Nations 2020;Cardoso etal., 2021;Udmale etal., 2020). [...]varying aspects of agricultural disparities have warranted much attention because of their global implications for food insecurity (O’Hara and Toussaint, 2021;Power etal., 2020;Battersby, 2020;Liverpool-Tasie etal., 2021). [...]behavioral food demands and agricultural supply chains have become important for the social justice perspective in agriculture. If teaching healthy food habits has a limited impact on sustainable demand for healthy food (Janda etal. 2021), then areas where food worries, supplemental assistance, poor access to healthy food options, and environmental health concerns are insurmountable experience institutional barriers to agricultural demand (Clay and Rogus, 2021;Wolfson and Leung CW, 2020 (1 and 2);Niles etal. 2020;Rosas etal. 2022).
{"title":"Introduction to Special Issue on “Social Justice in Agricultural and Environmental Economics”","authors":"A. Viceisza, Miesha J. Williams","doi":"10.1017/age.2021.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2021.28","url":null,"abstract":"Whereas, addressing food insecurity sheds light on public health problems in weight control, nutritional monitoring, and chronic and life-threatening illnesses (Campbell, 1991;Gunderson and Ziliak, 2015;Seligman etal., 2007, 2010), which are generally attributable to economic disparities (Coleman-Jenson etal. 2018). [...]food insecurity has increased as a result of labor market pressures, leading to joblessness, income losses, and supply chain disruptions (United Nations 2020;Cardoso etal., 2021;Udmale etal., 2020). [...]varying aspects of agricultural disparities have warranted much attention because of their global implications for food insecurity (O’Hara and Toussaint, 2021;Power etal., 2020;Battersby, 2020;Liverpool-Tasie etal., 2021). [...]behavioral food demands and agricultural supply chains have become important for the social justice perspective in agriculture. If teaching healthy food habits has a limited impact on sustainable demand for healthy food (Janda etal. 2021), then areas where food worries, supplemental assistance, poor access to healthy food options, and environmental health concerns are insurmountable experience institutional barriers to agricultural demand (Clay and Rogus, 2021;Wolfson and Leung CW, 2020 (1 and 2);Niles etal. 2020;Rosas etal. 2022).","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"395 - 400"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48475102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brandon O. Ware, M. D. Amin, E. Jessup, J. McCluskey
Abstract This article examines whether racial disparities exist in travel distances and travel times to grocery stores in Seattle, WA. In contrast to the findings of studies conducted in other metropolitan cities, Seattle, WA, has few food deserts. We find that disparities in travel distance and travel time to supermarkets vary with the percentage of specific racial and ethnic populations. Greater Asian populations in a census tract are associated with shorter travel distance to the grocery, low income, and low vehicle access. For the Hispanic population, a greater percentage in a census tract increases the predicted travel distances and travel times to grocery stores. Greater income in tracts with more Hispanic population is associated with a shorter distance, and those tracts with more Asian population are associated with a longer distance, possibly due to cultural differences in diet.
{"title":"Neighborhood racial composition, income, and distance to grocery retailers in Seattle","authors":"Brandon O. Ware, M. D. Amin, E. Jessup, J. McCluskey","doi":"10.1017/age.2021.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2021.23","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines whether racial disparities exist in travel distances and travel times to grocery stores in Seattle, WA. In contrast to the findings of studies conducted in other metropolitan cities, Seattle, WA, has few food deserts. We find that disparities in travel distance and travel time to supermarkets vary with the percentage of specific racial and ethnic populations. Greater Asian populations in a census tract are associated with shorter travel distance to the grocery, low income, and low vehicle access. For the Hispanic population, a greater percentage in a census tract increases the predicted travel distances and travel times to grocery stores. Greater income in tracts with more Hispanic population is associated with a shorter distance, and those tracts with more Asian population are associated with a longer distance, possibly due to cultural differences in diet.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"512 - 532"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49347120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Durfee, S. Myers, J. Wolfson, Molly DeMarco, Lisa Harnak, Caitlin E. Caspi
Abstract This article uses baseline data from an observational study to estimate the determinants of racial and gender disparities in obesity. Samples of low-income workers in Minneapolis and Raleigh reveal that respondents in Minneapolis have lower body mass indices (BMIs) than respondents in Raleigh. There are large, statistically significant race and gender effects in estimates of BMI that explain most of the disparity between the two cities. Accounting for intersectionality—the joint impacts of being Black and a woman—reveals that almost all the BMI gaps between Black women in Minneapolis and Raleigh can be explained by age and education differences.
{"title":"The determinants of racial disparities in obesity: baseline evidence from a natural experiment","authors":"T. Durfee, S. Myers, J. Wolfson, Molly DeMarco, Lisa Harnak, Caitlin E. Caspi","doi":"10.1017/age.2021.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2021.21","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article uses baseline data from an observational study to estimate the determinants of racial and gender disparities in obesity. Samples of low-income workers in Minneapolis and Raleigh reveal that respondents in Minneapolis have lower body mass indices (BMIs) than respondents in Raleigh. There are large, statistically significant race and gender effects in estimates of BMI that explain most of the disparity between the two cities. Accounting for intersectionality—the joint impacts of being Black and a woman—reveals that almost all the BMI gaps between Black women in Minneapolis and Raleigh can be explained by age and education differences.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"533 - 558"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43841653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Water supply unreliability in many public water systems stems from aging infrastructure. We measure unreliability by the issuance of boil water notices (BWNs) within one year prior to single-family residential sale observations. Using a spatial quantile regression framework on transactions between 2012 and 2017, we find statistically significant, negative relationships between BWNs and residential properties. The estimated impacts of unreliability on residential housing prices, however, are not uniform across the distribution of prices. Specifically, we find that BWNs have a larger impact on medium- to low-priced houses (at or below the 60 percent quantile) compared with high-priced houses. An aggregate marginal willingness-to-pay value of $4.2 million was computed for a one-day reduction in annual BWN throughout Marion County.
{"title":"Impact of public water supply unreliability on residential property prices in Marion County, West Virginia","authors":"Fahad Alzahrani, A. Collins","doi":"10.1017/age.2021.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2021.24","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Water supply unreliability in many public water systems stems from aging infrastructure. We measure unreliability by the issuance of boil water notices (BWNs) within one year prior to single-family residential sale observations. Using a spatial quantile regression framework on transactions between 2012 and 2017, we find statistically significant, negative relationships between BWNs and residential properties. The estimated impacts of unreliability on residential housing prices, however, are not uniform across the distribution of prices. Specifically, we find that BWNs have a larger impact on medium- to low-priced houses (at or below the 60 percent quantile) compared with high-priced houses. An aggregate marginal willingness-to-pay value of $4.2 million was computed for a one-day reduction in annual BWN throughout Marion County.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"105 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48957643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The dynamics of entry and exit are examined across different categories of farms depending on the timing of entry and/or exit through a detailed panel data set on Canadian agriculture. The decomposition highlights the differences in the groups of farms and provides information affecting entry and exit beyond what can be inferred from net exit numbers. While aggregate values show a gradual fall in farm numbers over time and suggest a sector in decline, the decomposition reveals that approximately one-third of farms in each census are new entrants but only half of these will be in operation by the time of the next census. The results of the analysis suggest that many of the factors that increase the probability of entry also increase the probability of exit; smaller operations, producing vegetable/horticulture goods, located in more densely populated regions, are more likely to enter the sector but also to leave farming. Multigeneration involvement and a possible succession plan also contribute to the longevity of the farm operation after it has been launched. The results also highlight the decline of the mid-size operations and the growing importance of large farms in the overall share of production.
{"title":"Dynamics of farm entry and exit in Canada","authors":"Hongyu Chen, A. Weersink, M. Beaulieu, Y. Lee","doi":"10.1017/age.2021.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2021.22","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The dynamics of entry and exit are examined across different categories of farms depending on the timing of entry and/or exit through a detailed panel data set on Canadian agriculture. The decomposition highlights the differences in the groups of farms and provides information affecting entry and exit beyond what can be inferred from net exit numbers. While aggregate values show a gradual fall in farm numbers over time and suggest a sector in decline, the decomposition reveals that approximately one-third of farms in each census are new entrants but only half of these will be in operation by the time of the next census. The results of the analysis suggest that many of the factors that increase the probability of entry also increase the probability of exit; smaller operations, producing vegetable/horticulture goods, located in more densely populated regions, are more likely to enter the sector but also to leave farming. Multigeneration involvement and a possible succession plan also contribute to the longevity of the farm operation after it has been launched. The results also highlight the decline of the mid-size operations and the growing importance of large farms in the overall share of production.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"86 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45270619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Robert D. Mohr, C. Cunningham, Shrawantee Saha, M. Vincenzi
Abstract We review 1982–1984 articles identifying Superfund sites in three national newspapers. Articles almost never identify the race of nearby residents. Based on sites receiving disproportionate coverage, readers might conclude that Superfund generally affected white, working-class families, but results do not support this narrative. In a pooled sample, neither race nor income predicts the number of times a site gets mentioned. When the sample is partitioned by newspaper or by each newspaper's coverage of nearby sites, a positive relationship emerges between the proportion of Hispanic or nonwhite residents and the number of articles about a site. We discuss this apparent contradiction.
{"title":"Coverage of National Priority List sites by the print media during the implementation of Superfund: the role of race and income","authors":"Robert D. Mohr, C. Cunningham, Shrawantee Saha, M. Vincenzi","doi":"10.1017/age.2021.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2021.20","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We review 1982–1984 articles identifying Superfund sites in three national newspapers. Articles almost never identify the race of nearby residents. Based on sites receiving disproportionate coverage, readers might conclude that Superfund generally affected white, working-class families, but results do not support this narrative. In a pooled sample, neither race nor income predicts the number of times a site gets mentioned. When the sample is partitioned by newspaper or by each newspaper's coverage of nearby sites, a positive relationship emerges between the proportion of Hispanic or nonwhite residents and the number of articles about a site. We discuss this apparent contradiction.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"559 - 582"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41620362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is largely exposed to pervasive market failures, translating into missed opportunities and sub-optimal economic behavior. These failures can partly be traced to the importance of economies of scale in procuring inputs and marketing produce, where smallholders face disproportionately high transaction costs. Producer organizations could help to lessen transaction costs; however, only a few farmers in Uganda sell through them. We introduce two interventions aimed at promoting marketing via producer organizations: cash on delivery, and information on sales, and analyze their impacts in an RCT design: We find that providing cash on delivery increases the probability that a member chooses to sell through the group, and hence the volumes bulked by each group. This increase in volumes appears to have enabled groups to secure higher prices for their produce. No significant effect could be found for providing information on sales.
{"title":"Strengthening producer organizations to increase market access of smallholder farmers in Uganda","authors":"R. Hill, E. Maruyama, M. Olapade, M. Frölich","doi":"10.1017/age.2021.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2021.19","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is largely exposed to pervasive market failures, translating into missed opportunities and sub-optimal economic behavior. These failures can partly be traced to the importance of economies of scale in procuring inputs and marketing produce, where smallholders face disproportionately high transaction costs. Producer organizations could help to lessen transaction costs; however, only a few farmers in Uganda sell through them. We introduce two interventions aimed at promoting marketing via producer organizations: cash on delivery, and information on sales, and analyze their impacts in an RCT design: We find that providing cash on delivery increases the probability that a member chooses to sell through the group, and hence the volumes bulked by each group. This increase in volumes appears to have enabled groups to secure higher prices for their produce. No significant effect could be found for providing information on sales.","PeriodicalId":44443,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural and Resource Economics Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"436 - 464"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46820377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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