1976 Annual Meeting, August 15-18, State College, Pennsylvania

Uncertainty is introduced into several components of a simple pest management model. It is shown that risk aversion leads to higher quantities of pesticides and to a decl [...]

The objective of the research reported in this paper was to develop a model that explains food price variation among urban markets. The principal hypotheses was that spec [...]

Techniques of agricultural benefit estimation for small watershed projects have recently become the focus of increasing study and controversy. An alternative approach to [...]

Most of the literature on the macroeconomics of U.S. agriculture is cast in the context of a closed economy. Moreover, it considers a world in which there is rapid techno [...]

A model of the Tanzanian beef markets was designed to estimate the price difference among markets due to transportation cost, optimum number of plants and plant locations [...]

The principles of customer profitability analysis are applied to overline participation in farm loans by correspondent banks. A simulated borrowing situation is used to m [...]

Estimation of U.S. and Canadian yield functions in a bioeconomic model of the Georges Bank scallop fishery indicated stock and congestion externalities. The latter result [...]

Extended jurisdiction through unilateral action or the Third Law of the Sea Conference has created a demand for and supply of fishery resources used by distant water flee [...]

In fiscal 1977, the Federal Government will spend $9.2 billion on food stamps and child nutrition programs.These benefits represent the bulk of Government's direct effort [...]

The topic of my paper is administrative aspects of food programs, particularly the stamp program.