http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/36159 Search the Channel search http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/simple-search http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31396 Title: PRESIDENTS, 1955-96; EDITORS OF THE ARER, 1972-96 (NAREA) http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31397 Title: ALLOCATABLE FIXED INPUTS AND JOINTNESS IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION: MORE IMPLICATIONS <br/> <br/>Authors: Asunka, Samuel; Shumway, C. Richard <br/> <br/>Abstract: The presence of allocatable fixed inputs may cause truly joint technologies to appear nonjoint in the short run as well as truly nonjoint technologies to appear joint. This paper demonstrates theoretically why this can happen and then documents that it actually occurs in a significant way in aggregate U.S. agricultural production. A simple testing procedure is used that requires no data on inputs allocations. The important finding is that failure to reject true (apparent) nonjointness does not justify modeling short-run (long-run) supply independent of alternative output prices. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31398 Title: AGRICULTURE IN AN ECOSYSTEMS FRAMEWORK <br/> <br/>Authors: Aillery, Marcel; Hrubovcak, Jim; Kramer-Leblanc, Carol; Shoemaker, Robbin; Tegene, Abebayehu <br/> <br/>Abstract: By broadening the definition of an ecosystem to include economic activities, can we better characterize the interactions and relationships among agricultural activities and important indicators of ecological system health? This paper addresses research approaches for assessing the role of agriculture in an ecosystems context. Environmental regulation and resource management policies have heightened the interest in understanding interactions among agricultural activities and the natural resource base, including the impacts of agriculture on environmental quality and the impacts on agriculture of ecosystem restoration efforts. What are the most meaningful indicators of environmental quality? Which agricultural practices and policies should be considered, along with which nonagricultural resource uses? Finally, does the evolving thinking about ecosystems permit us to link agricultural practices and policies more directly and meaningfully to conceptions of sustainability, of both natural and socioeconomic systems? This paper presents a brief synopsis of ecosystem management, drawing from several recent governmental initiatives. It then provides an overview of the economics of ecosystem management from the perspective of the role of agriculture; discusses two specific cases, the Pacific Northwest and South Florida; and concludes with a discussion of promising economic approaches, data needs, and caveats to those engaged in policy analysis involving ecosystem restoration. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31399 Title: NAREA AWARDS <br/> <br/>Abstract: Awards: Outstanding Master's Thesis Award The Distinct Impact of Food Stamps on Food Spending: Comparing Evidence from Economic Theory, Policy Experiments, and Non-Linear Regression Methods, by Parke E. Wilde Master's Thesis Award of Merit Economic Analysis of Different Herbicide Treatment Recommendations for Groundwater Protection, by Wei Liu Master's Thesis Award of Merit Implications of Changing European Union Trade Policies on Latin America's Trade in Bananas, by Kleber Machado Journal Article of the Year for 1995 Recreation Swimming Benefits of New Hampshire Lake Water Quality Policies, by Michael Needleman and Mary Jo Kealy Honorary Life Member Award: Olan D. Forker Distinguished Member Award: Conrado "Bobby" Gempesaw II http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31400 Title: WIFE'S LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION AND FAMILY EXPENDITURES FOR PREPARED FOOD, FOOD PREPARED AT HOME, AND FOOD AWAY FROM HOME <br/> <br/>Authors: Nayga, Rodolfo M., Jr. <br/> <br/>Abstract: This study examines the effects of a wife's participation in the labor force and other socioeconomic factors on family expenditures for prepared food, food prepared at home, and food away from home using the Bureau of Labor Statistics 1992 consumer expenditure survey. On the one hand, results indicate that the number of children, home ownership with mortgage, seasonality, region, wife's age, and income are important determinants of expenditures on food prepared at home. A wife's education and participation in the labor force, on the other hand, affect expenditures on prepared food and food away from home. The impact of both these factors is greater on food away from home than on prepared food expenditures. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31401 Title: MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING, NORTHEASTERN AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION, HOLIDAY INN, ATLANTIC CITY, NJ, JUNE 24, 1996 http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31402 Title: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS REVIEW <br/> <br/>Authors: Gempesaw, Conrado M., II; Albay, Fe Zinnia <br/> <br/>Abstract: A content analysis is conducted on the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review the official publication of the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, to determine whether the journal has maintained a strong regional focus and whether there has been a narrow concentration of published articles in subject area and methodology. The results show that in the 1990s (1) the share of articles that do not focus on the Northeast has increased tremendously and (2) more articles used quantitative techniques than nonquantitative methods. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31403 Title: TRADE POLICY AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: THE CASE OF EXPORT SUBSIDIES <br/> <br/>Authors: Leetmaa, Susan; Krissoff, Barry; Hartmann, Monika <br/> <br/>Abstract: The United States and the European Union both employ export subsidies to stimulate wheat trade and to increase their competitiveness in world markets. The environmental consequences of these policies are being questioned. We simulate reducing or removing export subsidies for wheat from the United States and the EU using a multicountry partial equilibrium model, and we analyze the impact of export subsidy policy reform on nitrogen fertilizer and other chemical use. Our findings indicate that the U.S. EEP program cannot be blamed for environmental degradation in terms of nitrate leaching, while EU wheat subsides make only a small contribution to nitrate pollution. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31404 Title: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MARKET AREA DETERMINATION FOR ESTIMATING AGGREGATE BENEFITS OF PUBLIC GOODS: TESTING DIFFERENCES IN RESIDENT AND NONRESIDENT WILLINGNESS TO PAY <br/> <br/>Authors: Loomis, John B.; Gonzalez-Caban, Armando <br/> <br/>Abstract: A combined telephone contact-mail booklet-telephone interview of California and New England households regarding their willingness to pay for fire management in California and Oregon's old-growth forests was performed to test hypotheses regarding the spatial extent of the public goods market. Using a multiple-bounded contingent valuation question, the study found that New England households' annual willingness to pay for the California and Oregon programs was statistically different from zero. This analysis points out that households receive benefits from fire protection of old-growth forests in states other than their own. In this case study, limiting the survey sample to state residents where the National Forest is located would reflect about 20% of the national benefits. However, using resident values as a proxy for nonresidents would overstate the national benefits by 75%, since the values per household are significantly different. This finding suggests more emphasis in future surveys on selecting an institutionally and economically relevant sample frame rather than an expedient one. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31405 Title: ABSTRACTS OF SELECTED PAPERS http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31406 Title: THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL REPORT ON THE COLLEGES OF AGRICULTURE AT THE LAND GRANT UNIVERSITIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE NORTHEAST <br/> <br/>Authors: Ballenger, Nicole <br/> <br/>Abstract: The National Research Council report entitled Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities: Public Service and Public Policy was released in spring 1996. Several of the study recommendations may be particularly pertinent and interesting to the land grant colleges of the Northeast. This article reviews the study background, process, and general conclusions. It highlights several specific recommendations of potential interest in the Northeast, including those relating to federal support through formula funds and competitive grants, regionalization of programs, and integrating and balancing teaching, research, and extension. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31407 Title: END MATERIALS <br/> <br/>Abstract: Includes: Guidelines for Manuscript Submission and Back Cover http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31408 Title: TRAVEL COST MODELS OF THE DEMAND FOR ROCK CLIMBING <br/> <br/>Authors: Shaw, W. Douglass; Jakus, Paul <br/> <br/>Abstract: In this paper we estimate the demand for rock climbing and calculate welfare measures for changing access to a number of climbs at a climbing area. In addition to the novel recreation application, we extend the travel cost methodology by combining the double hurdle count data model (DH) with a multinomial logit model of site-choice. The combined model allows us simultaneously to explain the decision to participate and to allocate trips among sites. The application is to climbers who visit one of the premiere rock-climbing areas in the northeastern United States and its important substitute sites. We also estimate a conventional welfare measure, which is the maximum WTP to avoid loss of access to the climbing site. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31409 Title: MULTIPLE-OBJECTIVE DECISION MAKING FOR AGROECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT <br/> <br/>Authors: Prato, Tony; Fulcher, Chris; Wu, Shunxiang; Ma, Jian <br/> <br/>Abstract: Multiple-objective decision making (MODEM) provides an effective framework for integrated resource assessment of agroecosystems. Two elements of integrated assessment are discussed and illustrated: (1) adding noneconomic objectives as constraints in an optimization problem; and (2) evaluating tradeoffs among competing objectives using the efficiency frontier for objectives. These elements are illustrated for a crop farm and watershed in northern Missouri. An interactive, spatial decision support system (ISDSS) makes the MODEM framework accessible to unsophisticated users. A conceptual ISDSS is presented that assesses the socioeconomic, environmental, and ecological consequences of alternative management plans for reducing soil erosion and nonpoint source pollution in agroecosystems. A watershed decision support system based on the ISDSS is discussed. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31410 Title: NAREA DISTINGUISHED AND HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31411 Title: ARER REVIEWERS, JUNE 1995-MAY 1996 http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31412 Title: FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT IN AGRICULTURE <br/> <br/>Authors: Dunn, James W. <br/> <br/>Abstract: The 1996 Farm Bill marks a new direction for the government in agriculture. By decoupling payments from price levels for crops, it undermines long-run political support for programs. Dairy price supports will end in 2000, and nutrition programs will be on a separate reauthorization schedule from farm programs. Together, these actions should weaken the farm bill coalition, making the remaining programs much more difficult to reauthorize than in earlier years. The 1996 Farm Bill may be the last farm bill of its kind and the beginning of the end to active government involvement in agricultural markets. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31413 Title: ECONOMICS AND ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT: DISCUSSION <br/> <br/>Authors: Poe, Gregory L. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31414 Title: THE IMPACT OF THE CANADA-U.S. HOG/PORK TRADE DISPUTE ON THE COMPOSITION OF U.S. PORK IMPORTS <br/> <br/>Authors: Larue, Bruno; Gervais, Jean-Philippe <br/> <br/>Abstract: Trade theorists have demonstrated that different trade policy instruments have different effects on the quality and source of imports. Countervailing duties (CVDs), like specific tariffs, should induce quality upgrading. However, the magnitude and timing of the quality adjustments are influenced by the credibility of the duties that can be legally contested and modified after annual administrative reviews. Index numbers are used to assess the timing and magnitude of the product mix and country mix substitution effects in U.S. pork imports in response to the U.S. CVDs on Canadian exports of live hogs and fresh, chilled, and frozen pork. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/31415 Title: COVER and CONTENTS PAGES <br/> <br/>Abstract: Includes: Cover, title page, and contents page