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NEP: New Economics Papers
Agricultural Economics
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Edited by: Angelo Zago
Universita degli Studi di Verona
Date: 2005-03-20
Papers: 5
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In this issue we have:
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1. Are Vietnamese Farmers Concerned with their Relative Position
in Society?
Carlsson, Fredrik; Nam, Pham Khanh; Linde-Rahr, Martin;
Martinsson, Peter
2. Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils: Discounting for
Uncertainty
Kurkalova, Lyubov
3. Land Fragmentation and its Implications for Productivity:
Evidence from Southern India
Raghbendra Jha; Hari K. Nagarajan; Subbarayan Prasanna
4. The Labor Market for New Agricultural and Resource Economics
Ph.D.s
Wendy A. Stock; John J. Siegfried
5. An Analysis of the Impact of Multiple Environmental Goods on
House Prices
Katherine Kiel; Michael Williams
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1. Are Vietnamese Farmers Concerned with their Relative Position
in Society?
Carlsson, Fredrik (Department of Economics, School of
Economics and Commercial Law, G?teborg University)
Nam, Pham Khanh (Faculty of Development Economics,
University of Economics)
Linde-Rahr, Martin (Department of Economics, School of
Economics and Commercial Law, G?teborg University)
Martinsson, Peter (Department of Economics, School of
Economics and Commercial Law, G?teborg University)
This paper examines the attitude towards relative position or
status among rural households in Vietnam. On average, the
respondents show weaker preferences for relative position than in
comparable studies in Western countries. Possible explanations
are the emphasis on the importance of equality and that villagers
are very concerned with how the local community perceives their
actions. We also investigate what influences the concern for
relative position and find, among other things, that if anyone
from the household is a member of the Peoples Committee then the
respondent is more concerned with the relative position. <p>
Keywords: Relative income; positionality; experiments; Vietnam;
Asia
JEL: C91 D63
Date: 2005-03-16
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:gunwpe:0165&r=agr
2. Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils: Discounting for
Uncertainty
Kurkalova, Lyubov
The study presents a conceptual model of an aggregator who
selectively pays farmers for altering farming practices in
exchange for carbon offsets that the change in practices
generates. Under the assumption that the offsets are stochastic
and that the aggregator maximizes the sum of the offsets from the
purchase that he/she can rightfully claim with a specified level
of confidence subject to a budget constraint, we investigate the
optimal discounting of expected carbon offsets. We use the model
to estimate empirically the optimal discounting levels and costs
for a hypothetical carbon purchasing project in the Upper Iowa
River Basin.
Date: 2005-03-11
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:isu:genres:12262&r=agr
3. Land Fragmentation and its Implications for Productivity:
Evidence from Southern India
Raghbendra Jha
Hari K. Nagarajan
Subbarayan Prasanna
Keywords: Length (pages): 37
Date: 2005
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pas:asarcc:2005-01&r=agr
4. The Labor Market for New Agricultural and Resource Economics
Ph.D.s
Wendy A. Stock (Department of Agricultural Economics and
Economics, Montana State University)
John J. Siegfried (Vanderbilt University and American
Economic Association)
This paper describes the characteristics and labor market
experiences of new agricultural and natural resource (ANR)
economics Ph.D.s, based on surveys of graduates in 1996-97 and
2001-02. An average of 185 new Ph.D.s in ANR economics were
awarded in each of these years. Among these, an average of 27
percent were earned by women, and 36 percent were earned by U.S.
citizens. The median graduate took 5.2 years to earn the Ph.D.
Ninety-five percent of the graduates were employed. About half of
the jobs were in academe, with the remainder divided roughly
equally among government, international or research organizations,
and business, industry, and consulting. The median salary of new
ANR economics Ph.D.s holding full-time jobs in the U.S. was $62,
500 in 2002, up from $47,500 five years earlier. Ninety-one
percent of the respondents reported that they like their job
fairly well. Those who do less research and more service are more
likely to be dissatisfied with their jobs. Overall, 85 percent of
the new ANR economics Ph.D.s reported that had they known at
matriculation what they know after graduation, they still would
have pursued a Ph.D.
Keywords: Agricultural and natural resource economists, market
for agricultural economists, salaries of agricultural
economists
JEL: A11
Date: 2005-02
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:van:wpaper:0504&r=agr
5. An Analysis of the Impact of Multiple Environmental Goods on
House Prices
Katherine Kiel (Department of Economics, College of the Holy
Cross)
Michael Williams (Department of Economics, College of the
Holy Cross)
It seems an established empirical fact that Superfund sites
lower local property values. Two recent literature reviews (
Farber, 1998, Boyle and Kiel, 2001) report that published
academic papers on the topic verify that point. The EPA?s
approach assumes that all sites negatively impact property values,
and that the impact is similar for all sites. This paper
examines 74 National Priorities List (NPL) sites in 13 U.S.
counties in order to test these two implicit assumptions.
Following the hedonic approach of Kiel (1995) and Kiel and
McClain (1995), we find that some sites have the expected
negative impact, while other sites have either no impact or a
positive impact on local property values. We also consider the
possibility of ?stigma? from sites by looking at those sites
that have been cleaned during our sample period and find that
some sites do appear to suffer from stigma, while others do not.
We then use a meta-analysis approach to examine what factors
affect the likelihood and extent of a decrease in property values
near the sites. We find that larger sites in areas with fewer
blue-collar workers are more likely to have the expected negative
impact on local house prices.
Keywords: Environment, Superfund, Hedonic regressions, meta-
analysis, property values
JEL: Q51 Q53 Q58 R21
Date: 2005-03
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hcx:wpaper:0505&r=agr
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