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Working papers (WP) published by the Dyson School are journal-article-length research papers. They are used to share research results in a timely fashion and garner input from professional peers prior to anticipated publication in professional journals. The most recent Working Papers can be accessed from the Dyson School web site here: https://dyson.cornell.edu/faculty-research/working-papers/.
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Item Measuring stocks of community wealth & their association with food systems efforts in rural & urban places.Schmit, T.M.; Jablonski, B.B.R.; Bonanno, A.; Johnson, T.G. (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2020-06)Healthy, sustainable communities depend on cumulative investments in a broad range of capital assets, yet little research sets forth comprehensive measures of their stocks or the relationships of capital assets to community outcomes or policy efficacy. We develop a comprehensive set of indicators associated with stocks of community-based wealth at the county level. Including such indicators when evaluating community outcomes addresses a missing-variables problem of prior efforts and allows one to control for and quantify the importance of community capital assets in concert with traditional modeling efforts. To illustrate their use, we evaluate the association between the percentage of farms selling through direct local food markets and community capital stocks for both metro and nonmetro counties. In so doing, we demonstrate clear differences across metro and nonmetro classifications and the need for public and/or private planning efforts to consider preexisting levels of community capitals in appropriately framing food system interventions, policies, and strategies for development.Item Preferences and the effectiveness of behavior-change interventions: Evidence from adoption of improved cookstoves in IndiaJeuland, Marc; Pattanayak, Subhrendu; Tan Soo, Jie-Sheng; Usmani, Faraz (2019)Preference heterogeneity can influence behavior in economically significant ways, thereby influencing the effectiveness of environmental policies or interventions. We test this hypothesis in the context of efficient cooking technology in India. We use stated preference methods to first characterize household tastes for various features of a more efficient cooking technology. We then relate these typically unobserved preferences to households' adoption decisions during an experiment that allowed them to choose between two alternatives with different features. Stated preferences help predict actual adoption: households initially classified as uninterested are less likely to purchase and use any new technology, while relative distaste for pollution is linked to selection of a cleaner technology. Because of this influence on adoption behaviors, preference heterogeneity has important implications for how environmental policies can impact various health and development outcomes.Item Measuring the Risks of New York Dairy ProducersSchmit, Todd M.; Boisvert, Richard N.; Tauer, Loren W. (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1999-05-01)Item Non-Linear Utility Pricing and Targeting the PoorKanbur, Ravi; Tarkiainen, Ritva; Tuomala, Matti (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1998-11-01)Item Income Distribution and DevelopmentKanbur, Ravi (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1998-11-01)Item The Kyoto Protocol, Cafe Standards, and Gasoline TaxesAgras, Jean; Chapman, Duane (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1998-08-01)Item Which Regional Inequality? The Evolution of Rural-Urban and Inland-Coastal Inequality in China, 1983-1995Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiao-Bo (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1998-08-01)Item Effects of Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act on Local Government Finance and Rural Residents in New YorkTsao, Leo; Schmit, Todd M.; Boisvert, Richard N. (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1998-07-01)Item Estimates of Individual Dairy Farm Supply ElasticitiesTauer, Loren W. (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1998-07-01)Item The Shoreham Deal: A View from UpstateMount, Timothy D. (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1998-05-01)Item Angola: Current Situation and Future Prospects for the MacroeconomyKyle, Steven C. (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1998-05-01)Item Redirecting Energy Policy in the U.S.A. to Address Global WarmingMount, Timothy D. (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1998-05-01)Item Food Demand in China: Lessons from Guangdong ProvinceZhang, Xiaobo; Mount, Timothy D.; Boisvert, Richard N. (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1998-03-01)Item Wilderness: Options to Preserve, Extract or DevelopConrad, Jon M. (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1998-03-01)Item A Critical Overview of the Economic Structure of Integrated Assessment Models of Climate ChangeKhanna, Neha; Chapman, Duane (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1997-11-01)Item INTRODUCING RECURSIVE PARTITIONING TO AGRICULTURAL CREDIT SCORINGNovak, Michael P.; LaDue, Eddy L. (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1997-10-01)Item Nonrenewability in Forest Rotations: Implications for Economic and Ecosystem SustainabilityErickson, Jon D.; Chapman, Duane; Fahey, Timothy J.; Christ, Martin J. (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1997-06-01)Item Conditions for Requiring Separate Green Payments Policies Under Asymmetric InformationBoisvert, Richard N.; Peterson, Jeffrey M. (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1996-12-01)Item A Comparative Analysis of Economic Development of Angola and MozambiqueKyle, Steven C. (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1997-04-01)Item THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ON REDISTRIBUTIVE AND PUBLIC RESEARCH POLICIES IN AGRICULTUREde Gorter, Harry; Swinnen, Johan F.M. (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 1996-12-01)