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93168: Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods: Traits, Labels and Diverse Information

Wallace Huffman

55938: Does Information Change Behavior?

Wallace Huffman

55937: Investing in People for the 21st Century

Wallace Huffman

55845: Measuring Public Agricultural Research Capital and Its Contribution to State Agricultural Productivity

Wallace Huffman

54083: Stopping Start-Ups: How the Business Cycle Affects Entrepreneurship

Li Yu, Peter Orazem and Robert W. Jolly

54081: Why Do Rural Firms Live Longer?

Li Yu, Peter Orazem and Robert W. Jolly

54078: Firm Entry, Firm Exit, and Urban‐Biased Growth

Li Yu, Robert W. Jolly and Peter Orazem

48535: Ag Bankers -- Today and Tomorrow

Robert W. Jolly and Michael Gaul

48532: After They Graduate: An Overview of the Iowa State University Alumni Survey

Robert W. Jolly, Li Yu and Peter Orazem

48530: Testing for Complementarity and Substitutability among Multiple Technologies: The Case of U.S. Hog Farms

Li Yu, Terrance Hurley, James B. Kliebenstein and Peter Orazem

48529: Is it a Jungle Out There?: Meat Packing, Immigrants and Rural Communities

Georgeanne Artz, Rebecca Jackson and Peter Orazem

44877: Lifetime Health Consequences of Child Labor in Brazil

Chanyoung Lee and Peter Orazem

44874: Rising Food and Energy Prices: Projections for Labor Markets 2008-18 and Beyond

Wallace Huffman

44873: Human Capital, Complex Technologies, Firm Size and Wages: A Test of the O-Ring Production Hypotheses

Li Yu and Peter Orazem

18231: The Effects of Prior Beliefs and Learning on Consumers' Acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods

Wallace Huffman, Matthew C. Rousu, Jason Shogren and Abebayehu Tegene

18230: LABOR SUPPLY RESPONSES IN EMPLOYER-PROVIDED HEALTH INSURANCE

Rebecca Meyer, Peter Orazem and William A. Wachenheim

18229: MARKETIZING U.S. PRODUCTION IN THE POST-WAR ERA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ESTIMATING CPI BIAS AND REAL INCOME FROM A COMPLETE-HOUSEHOLD-DEMAND SYSTEM

Wallace Huffman

18228: The Story Behind the Post-War Decline in Women's Housework: Prices, Income, Family Size, and Technology Effects in a Demand System

Wallace Huffman

18227: ARE U.S. CONSUMERS TOLERANT OF GM FOODS?

Matthew C. Rousu, Wallace Huffman, Jason Shogren and Abebayehu Tegene

18226: Innovative Behavior and Spatial Location - Using Patent Counts and Geographic Location To Estimate Innovative Spillins

John A. Miranowski and Daniel C. Monchuk

18225: OFF-FARM LABOR SUPPLY RESPONSES TO PERMANENT AND TRANSITORY FARM INCOME

Chul-Woo Kwon, Peter Orazem and Daniel M. Otto

18224: Spatial Labor Markets and Technology Spillovers - Analysis from the US Midwest

John A. Miranowski and Daniel C. Monchuk

18223: The Value of Third-Party Certification of Preconditioning Claims at Iowa Feeder Cattle Auctions

Harun Bulut and John D. Lawrence

18222: Reexamining Rural Decline: How Changing Rural Classifications and Short Time Frames Affect Perceived Growth

Georgeanne Artz and Peter Orazem

18221: DC Optimal Power Flow Formulation and Solution Using QuadProgJ

Junjie Sun and Leigh Tesfatsion

18220: DOES SCHOOL DECENTRALIZATION RAISE STUDENT OUTCOMES?: THEORY AND EVIDENCE ON THE ROLES OF SCHOOL AUTONOMY AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

Louise Victoria Gunnarsson, Peter Orazem, Mario Sanchez and Aimee Verdisco

18219: Measuring the Impact of Meat Packing and Processing Facilities in the Nonmetropolitan Midwest: A Difference-in-Differences Approach

Georgeanne Artz, Peter Orazem and Daniel M. Otto

18218: The Benefits and Costs of Alternative Strategies to Combat Illiteracy

Peter Orazem

18217: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT: 2001 COURT RESTRUCTURING PLAN IMPACTS ON THREE IOWA COUNTIES

Mark A. Edelman

18216: COST OF ORGANIC PORK PRODUCTION: A SEASONAL ANALYSIS AND NEEDED PRICE PREMIUM FOR CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION

James B. Kliebenstein, Sean P. Hurley, Ben Larson and Mark Honeyman

18215: SHOULD THE UNITED STATES REGULATE MANDATORY LABELING FOR GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS?

Wallace Huffman, Matthew C. Rousu, Jason Shogren and Abebayehu Tegene

18214: Broadband Access, Telecommuting and the Urban-Rural Digital Divide

Rajesh Singh, Peter Orazem and Moohoun Song

18213: CHILD LABOUR, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND PERFORMANCE: A REVIEW

Peter Orazem and Louise Victoria Gunnarsson

18212: THE VALUE OF VERIFICABLE INFORMATION IN A CONTROVERSIAL MARKET: EVIDENCE FROM LAB AUCTIONS OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD

Matthew C. Rousu, Wallace Huffman, Jason Shogren and Abebayehu Tegene

18211: The Economics of Obesity-Related Mortality Among High Income Countries

Kyrre Rickertsen, Abebayehu Tegene, Sonya Kostova Huffman and Wallace Huffman

18210: Farm Technology and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Four Regions in China

Wallace Huffman, Zhuo Chen and Scott Rozelle

18209: Growth of Large-Scale Credit Unions in Iowa: Implications for Public Policy

Robert W. Jolly, Gary D. Koppenhaver and Joshua D. Roe

18208: BETTER DEAD THAN GM-FED? INFORMATION AND THE EFFECTS OF CONSUMERS' RESISTANCE TO GM-FOODS IN HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES

Wallace Huffman, Matthew C. Rousu, Jason Shogren and Abebayehu Tegene

18207: Returns to Graduate and Professional Education: The Roles of Mathematical and Verbal Skills by Major

Moohoun Song and Peter Orazem

18206: DETERMINANTS OF THE DEMAND FOR STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION RESOURCES: A DEMAND-SYSTEM APPROACH

Wallace Huffman and Robert E. Evenson

18205: WHO DO CONSUMERS TRUST FOR INFORMATION: THE CASE OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS

Wallace Huffman, Matthew C. Rousu, Jason Shogren and Abebayehu Tegene

18204: IMMIGRATION IN THE U.S. MIDWEST DURING THE 1990S: A DECADE OF RAPID CHANGE

Wallace Huffman

18203: APPRAISAL COMMENTS ON TAX INCREMENT FINANCING EFFEVTIVENESS IN THE CONTEXT OF EVALUATING IOWA TAX POLICY ALTERNATIVES

Mark A. Edelman

18202: The Role of Agriculture and Human Capital in Economic Growth: Farmers, Schooling, and Health

Wallace Huffman and Peter Orazem

18201: NEW ECONOMETRIC EVIDENCE ON AGRICULTURAL TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY DETERMINANTS: IMPACT OF FUNDING SOURCES

Wallace Huffman and Robert E. Evenson

7352: The Benefits and Costs of Alternative Strategies to Improve Educational Outcomes

Peter Orazem, Paul Glewwe and Harry Patrinos

7351: The Tariff Equivalent and Forgone Trade Effects of Prohibitive Technical Barriers to Trade

Chengyan Yue and John Beghin

7350: Decoupled Farm Payments and the Role of Base Updating Under Uncertainty

Arathi Bhaskar and John Beghin

7349: Schooling in Developing Countries: The Roles of Supply, Demand and Government Policy

Peter Orazem and Elizabeth M. Kling

7348: Economies of Scope in the Management of Mulitple Species Fisheries

Rajesh Singh and Quinn Weninger

7347: How Coupled are Decoupled Farm Payments? A Review of Coupling Mechanisms and the Evidence

Arathi Bhaskar and John Beghin

7346: The Role of Mathematical and Verbal Skills on the Returns to Graduate and Professional Education

Moohoun Song, Peter Orazem and Darin Wohlgemuth

6184: Individual fishing quotas in the eastern Gulf of Mexico grouper fishery: Fleet restructuring, effort reduction and cost savings

Quinn Weninger

6183: Land Allocation Effects of the Global Ethanol Surge: Predictions from the International FAPRI Model

Jacinto F. Fabiosa, John Beghin, Fengxia Dong, Amani Elobeid, Simla Tokgoz and Tun-hsiang Yu

6182: Rural immigrant population growth, 1950-2000: waves or ripples?

Andrew Dust, Peter Orazem and Darin Wohlgemuth

6138: FIRM SIZE, TECHNICAL CHANGE AND WAGES IN THE PORK SECTOR, 1990 -2005

Li Yu, Terrance Hurley, James B. Kliebenstein and Peter Orazem

6136: Competition and Regulation via Supply and Demand Functions in Oligopolistic-Oligopsonistic Markets

Harun Bulut and Semih Koray

6135: Meat Slaughter and Processing Plants’ Traceability Levels: Evidence From Iowa

Harun Bulut and John D. Lawrence