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Profitability in Marketing Bred Heifers in Alabama
(2020-07-17)
In 2018, the inventory of cattle in the United States was of 94,298,000, from which almost the 7% (6,260,000) came from the Southeast (Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee) (USDA-NASS). Most cattle producers in ...
Right-to-Farm: Dispossession of Community in Rural America
(2020-05-04)
Practices of industrialization are changing rural landscapes despite oppositional efforts of community members. This thesis explores the themes of power and loss in rural areas impacted by industrial agriculture and how ...
Three Essays Analyzing Microfinance Institutions, Housing Policy and Agricultural Banks.
(2021-03-31)
Chapter 1 evaluates if MFIs can realize cost savings from lending in both rural and urban markets, which would mean that the MFIs would exhibit economies of scale and cost complementarities. The presence of cost complementarities ...
The Durability of Rurality: Connecting Deaths of Despair and Livelihood Characteristics in U.S. Counties
(2021-04-01)
Despite the decrease in overall mortality rate, drug related overdose deaths in the U.S. continue to increase. Factors such as unemployment and the decline of traditional livelihoods have been suggested as potential causes ...
Extension Support for Cassava (Manihot esculenta) Production and Processing in Nigeria: Impact on Farm Practice Adoption
(2021-04-22)
Many factors have been found to affect farmers’ adoption of new technologies by different authors, which include farmers’ interaction with extension services and socio-economic characteristics of farmers. This study ...
Analysis of Gender Participation in the Marketing and Processing Phases of the Cassava Value Chain in Nigeria
(2021-04-30)
The Nigerian cassava value chain shows different gender roles for men and women in marketing and processing activities. Women are typically found in the less profitable work and at the bottom of the value chain because of ...
Three Essays in Applied Economics
(2021-06-15)
This dissertation consists of three empirical essays as three chapters, which sheds lights on select research questions on education economics, biodiversity, and water sustainability in the United States.
Chapter 1 ...
Influence of Government Policy on the Foster Care Placement Gap
(2021-07-20)
In this paper, I examine the influence of child welfare licensing regulations on the foster care placement gap. The foster care placement gap measures the rate black children enter foster care compared to the rate at which ...
Three Topics in Applied Economics
(2021-12-10)
This dissertation consists of three different chapters. The first chapter sheds the light on the association between financial literacy and financial inclusion; financial literacy and poverty in India during the period ...
ESSAYS ON PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS
(2021-12-06)
This dissertation includes three essays conducting analyses of firm performance with the emphasis on estimating production technology, productivity, cost effectiveness and their relations with closely related aspects of ...