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Browsing Applied Economics and Policy Area by Issue Date
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Economic Inequality and Academic Freedom
(2020-08-05)The term academic freedom these days invokes controversies on freedom of speech, de-platforming and cancel culture. These are important debates but they are not the focus of this essay, for the simple reason that they are ... -
Social Externalities and Economic Analysis
(2020-08-06)This paper considers and assesses the concept of social externalities through human interdependence, in relation to the economic analysis of externalities in the tradition of Pigou and Arrow, including the analysis of the ... -
Meet the New Normal, Same as the Old Normal: The State-Market Balance and Economic Policy Debates after the Pandemic
(2020-12-07)What will happen to economic policy debates after the Pandemic? The majority view seems to be that nothing will ever be the same again. A new normal will be upon us. A combination of prediction and hope points to a major ... -
A Scoping Review of the Development Resilience Literature: Theory, Methods, and Evidence
(2021-01)Development and humanitarian agencies have rapidly embraced the concept of resilience since the 2008 global financial and food price crises. We report the results of a formal scoping review of the literature on development ... -
Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Climate and the Environment
(2021-01)This paper reviews the feedbacks between structural transformation and agriculture, on the one hand, and climate and the natural environment, on the other. The longstanding, dominant economic development narrative largely ... -
Experimental Evidence on Adoption and Impact of the System of Rice Intensification
(2021-01)We report the results of a large-scale, multi-year experimental evaluation of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), an innovation that first emerged in Madagascar in the 1980s and has now diffused to more than 50 ... -
When Distance Drives Distination, Towns can Stimulate Development
(2021-02-05)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 in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants ... -
COVID-19 Impact on Fruit and Vegetable Markets: One Year Later
(2021-03)More than one year after the outbreak of COVID-19, fruit and vegetable markets continue to adjust to the evolving landscape. In this article, we focus on three key measures of input and output market performance that serve ... -
On the Triggers of Hazardous Border Crossing:: Evidence from the US-Mexican Border
(2021-03)We study the self-selection of migrants at crossing locations along the Mexican-U.S. border distinguished by stark differences in physiography and border enforcement intensities. We model the triggers of hazardous ... -
Child Morality and Indoor Air Pollution
(2021-07-15)How serious is indoor air pollution (IAP) a mortality threat to young children? This paper estimates the causal effect of cooking fuel choice – a predominant cause of IAP – on infant mortality in India (1992-2016), where ... -
Efficiency and Equity in a Society-Economy Integrated Model
(2021-08-06)A model that only focuses on economic relations, and in which efficiency and equity are defined in terms of resource allocation may miss an important part of the picture. We propose an integrated model that embeds economic ... -
The Pro-Trade Bias of Offshoring
(2021-09)Technological advance and improvements in communication technologies have facilitated the offshoring of jobs worldwide, where a typical scene following the supply chain involves developing countries importing finished ... -
A Comparative Assessment of Resilience Measurement Approaches
(2021-09)As development and humanitarian agencies increasingly advance the objective of 'building resilience', three resilience measurement methods have come into especially widespread use: the Resilience Indicators for Measurement ... -
Household Resilience, and Rural Food Systems: Evidence from Southern and Eastern Africa
(2021-09)Resilience offers a useful lens for studying how human well-being and the systems on which it depends can absorb and recover from a range of shocks and stressors, including events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking ... -
Food Security Dynamics in the United States, 2001-2017
(2021-11)This paper studies household food security dynamics in the United States from 2001 to 2017. We introduce a new measure, the probability of food security (PFS), the estimated probability that a household’s food expenditures ... -
Differential Economics Impacts for Cooperative Business Structures: Am Application to Farmer-Owned Cooperatives in New York State.
(2021-12)A comprehensive economic impact assessment using input-output methods is developed to account for localized spending activities and distributions of residual earning to member owners by cooperatives. The framework is ... -
Higher member heterogeneity improves cooperative performance? Evidence from cooperative unions in China
(2022)This paper constructs a new conceptual framework around the impacts of member heterogeneity on cooperative union (federated cooperative) performance considering both a union’s capital factor structure and its service link ... -
Engaged Learning: Mutual benefits for course instruction and Extension program delivery
(2022-01-31)Engaged learning projects can effectively complement Extension programming goals and course learning objectives that enrich the outcomes for both components. A cooperative business management class at Cornell University ... -
The Coming Battle of Digital Currencies
(2022-03-15)We model the dynamic global competition among national fat currencies, cryptocurrencies, and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) in which the strength of a country and of its currency are mutually reinforcing. The rise ...
