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Three Essays on the Economics of Crime
(2019-07-30)
This dissertation consists of three essays on economics of crime. The first chapter
investigates the extent to which variations in temperature affect crime rates in the southeastern
states within a typical empirical ...
Alabama & Georgia Media Sources and Their Claims About Alternative Food Networks
(2019-08-16)
The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which the media shapes information about Alternative Food Networks (AFN). This study is embedded in a larger project investigating local beef food safety in the Southeast ...
Food Safety Scandals and Scares: Media Presentation of Local Beef
(2019-07-23)
This study is part of a long-term project examining the attitudes of Southern beef consumers towards red meat food safety associated with Alternative Food Networks (AFNs). Previous work focused on locally produced beef and ...
Sod-Based Rotation Systems: Research for Whom?
(2019-04-17)
Over the last two decades, a Southeastern multi-institutional, multidisciplinary research team developed a low-input sod-based rotational system with integrated cattle (SBRC) to improve sustainability for small- to medium-size ...
Gender and Rural Vitality: Empowerment through Women’s Community Groups
(2019-04-23)
Rural women are often the main supporters of their families and have been involved in improving the quality of life for households and communities. Sustainable rural development and poverty reduction is linked to empowering ...
Three Essays on Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture
(2019-06-12)
In the first chapter, we evaluate the effects of climate change on Vietnam’s rice market. Results suggest that under a low-emission scenario and without interventions, rice production would drop by as much as 18% by 2030 ...
How will changes in Title II of the 2018 Farm Bill affect CRP Acreage?
(2019-11-11)
The 2018 Farm Bill, added new regulations under its conservation title that have made changes to various conservation programs. For the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) rental payments have been lowered to 85% of the ...
The Corporation and the DNA of Farmland Financialization
(2019-04-18)
Although farmland has long been understood to be an investment, policies shaping the economy, intensified by the 2007-2008 food crisis, have given rise to a new paradigm in which, for a set of major investors, farmland is ...
Three Essays in Applied Economics
(2019-08-16)
Since the 1920s Iraq has experienced a prolonged period of war which has adversely affect the country's economic, affecting the political as well as social aspects of the lives of people living in the nation. This dissertation ...
Three Essays on Applied Economics
(2019-07-23)
This dissertation is composed of three chapters examining the wage inequality in developing countries, and the effect of insurance subsidy on land use allocation.
Chapter 1 is about the distributional decomposition of ...