Applied Economics and Policy Working Paper Series

Farm-to-school projects have been widely supported by policy makers with funding provided at both the federal and state levels. Still, many of the outcomes of this inflow [...]

The issue of employer power is underemphasized in the development literature. Thedefault model is usually one of competitive labor markets. This assumption matters for an [...]

This paper constructs a new conceptual framework around the impacts of member heterogeneity on cooperative union (federated cooperative) performance considering both a un [...]

We consider the effects of a maritime bunker levy on ship-owner profits, trade, and emissions. Standard and augmented gravity models are employed using data from 2016 to [...]

We model the dynamic global competition among national fat currencies, cryptocurrencies, and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) in which the strength of a country an [...]

In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a ‘sunshine’ narrative of falling global inequality that has been rathe [...]

Engaged learning projects can effectively complement Extension programming goals and course learning objectives that enrich the outcomes for both components. A cooperativ [...]

Using administrative universal firm registration data as well as primary offline and online surveys of small businesses in China, we examine (i) whether digitization hel [...]

While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail [...]

This paper considers and assesses the concept of social externalities through human interdependence, in relation to the economic analysis of externalities in the traditio [...]