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201911040800001688: 3 reasons Midwest farmers hurt by the U.S.-China trade war still support Trump

Wendong Zhang, Lulu Rodriguez and Shuyang Qu

201911010700001771: Evaluation of Horticultural Practices for Sustainable Tomato Production in Eastern Uganda

Sharon M. Tusiime, Gaile R. Nonnecke, Dorothy M. Masinde and Helen Jensen

201911010700001094: Information Security Policy Compliance

Yuanxiang John Li and Elizabeth Hoffman

201910170700001720: More pork from fewer sows

Lee Schulz

201910010700001766: The New Role of Agricultural Cooperatives in Pooling and Distributing Tax Deductions

Phil Kenkel, Greg McKee, Mike Boland and Keri Jacobs

201909250700001081: Dynamic Reserves in Matching Markets

Orhan Aygün and Bertan Turhan

201909190700001721: Beef packers have market leverage for now

Lee Schulz

201909150700001080: Identifying Marginal Treatment Effects in the Presence of Sample Selection

Otavio Bartalotti, Desire Kedagni and Vitor Possebom

201909010700001032: Swing Contracts With Dynamic Reserves for Flexible Service Management

Shanshan Ma, Zhaoyu Wang and Leigh Tesfatsion

201908090700001674: Pass-through of the policy-induced E85 subsidy: Insights from Hotelling's model

Jinjing Luo and GianCarlo Moschini

201908080700001722: Has the cattle cycle peaked?

Lee Schulz

201908010700001088: Best Management Practices and Nutrient Reduction: An Integrated Economic-Hydrological Model of the Western Lake Erie Basin

Hongxing Liu, Wendong Zhang, Elena Irwin, Jeffrey Kast, Noel Aloysius, Jay Martin and Margaret Kalcic

201907160700001723: Pigs saved per litter surge

Lee Schulz

201907020700001077: Information order in monotone decision problems under uncertainty

Jian Li and Junjie Zhou

201907010700001069: Investigating Treatment Effects of Participating Jointly in SNAP and WIC when the Treatment Is Validated Only for SNAP

Helen Jensen, Brent Kreider and Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy

201906180700001724: Planning farm succession takes time

Lee Schulz

201906060700001725: Beef packing finds balance

Lee Schulz

201906030700001073: Identification of Treatment Effects with Mismeasured Imperfect Instruments

Desire Kedagni

201905240700001726: Cattle cheap compared to hogs

Lee Schulz

201905230700001082: What drives landowners’ conservation decisions? Evidence from Iowa

Wendiam Sawadgo, Wendong Zhang and Alejandro Plastina

201905170700001045: A Correction for Regression Discontinuity Designs with Group-Specific Mismeasurement of the Running Variable

Otavio Bartalotti, Quentin Brummet and Steven Dieterle

201905100700001072: Rational ecosystem-based fisheries management: An application to the GOM commercial reef fish fishery

Quinn Weninger

201905010700001672: Adoption of Secure Pork Supply Plan Biosecurity by U.S. Swine Producers

Christopher C. Pudenz, Lee Schulz and Glynn Tonsor

201904170700001728: Pork export picture improves

Lee Schulz

201904160700001727: Lean hog futures overly positive

Lee Schulz

201904150700001693: An integrated transmission and distribution test system for evaluation of transactive energy designs

Hieu Trung Nguyen, Swathi Battula, Rohit Reddy Takkala, Zhaoyu Wang and Leigh Tesfatsion

201904010700001698: How Reliable is Duality Theory in Empirical Work?

Juan Rosas and Sergio Lence

201904010700001085: Does Class Size Matter? How, and at What Cost?

Desire Kedagni, Kala Krishna, Rigissa Megalokonomou and Yingyan Zhao

201904010700001060: The fight-or-flight response to the Joneses and inequality

Richard Barnett, Joydeep Bhattacharya and Helle Bunzel

201903300700001068: The Will of the People: Measuring social divides in multi-dimensional choice settings

Sunanda Roy, Kuan Chuen Wu and Abhijit Chandra

201903150700001729: Beef output may keep rising after herd expansion ends

Lee Schulz

201903010800001071: Wild bootstrap for fuzzy regression discontinuity designs: obtaining robust bias-corrected confidence intervals

Yang He and Otavio Bartalotti

201902180800001730: Price slide helps size up feeder cattle bids

Lee Schulz

201902080800001668: Theoretical Production Restrictions and Agricultural Technology in the United States

Alejandro Plastina and Sergio Lence

201902050800001065: Motherhood, Migration, and Self-Employment of College Graduates

Zhengyu Cai, Heather M. Stephens and John Winters

201902040800001063: The Economic Impact of the Health Sector on the Economy of Appanoose County, Iowa

Daniel Otto and Georgeanne Artz

201901310800001064: Accounting for the International Quantity-Quality Trade-Off

Juan Cordoba, Xiying Liu and Marla Ripoll

201901160800001731: Sizing up long-term prospects

Lee Schulz

201901150800001732: 2019 looks good for pork

Lee Schulz

201901010800008084: Three essays on foreign exchange rates

Pichittra Prapassornmanu

201901010800008031: Three essays in financial frictions

Sicheng He

201901010800007978: Effects of interest rate changes on midwestern U.S. farmland values

Albulena Basha

201901010800001779: The Role of Regulations and Norms in Land Use Change

Elena G. Irwin, Geoffrey L. Buckley, Matthew Gnagey, Nicholas Irwin, David Newburn, Erin Pierce, Douglas Wrenn and Wendong Zhang

201901010800001710: Impact assessment of new US Food and Drug Administration regulations on antibiotic use: A post-enactment survey of swine practitioners

Christopher J. Rademacher, Christopher C. Pudenz and Lee Schulz

201901010800001705: Effects of extended-release eprinomectin on productivity measures in cow–calf systems and subsequent feedlot performance and carcass characteristics of calves

Claire E. Andresen, Dan D. Loy, Troy A. Brick, Lee Schulz and Patrick J. Gunn

201901010800001699: Variance risk premia for agricultural commodities

Wenwen Xi, Dermot Hayes and Sergio Lence

201901010800001682: Entrepreneurs and Start-ups in the Agricultural Industry

Marta Grant and Wendong Zhang

201901010800001679: Training the Next Generation of Extension Economists

Mykel Taylor and Wendong Zhang

201901010800001678: Does Fertilizer Education Program Increase the Technical Efficiency of Chemical Fertilizer Use? Evidence from Wheat Production in China

Pingping Wang, Wendong Zhang, Minghao Li and Yijun Han

201901010800001675: Declining Liquidity in Iowa Farms: 2014–2017

Alejandro Plastina

201901010800001673: The Farm Management Extension Audience of 2030

Alejandro Plastina, Kelvin Leibold and Matthew Stockton

201901010800001061: Trade and Tariffs: How are current foreign tariffs impacting the swine market?

Lee Schulz

201901010800001060: Understanding the Labor Market and Projections

Lee Schulz

201901010800001031: Revisiting the relationship between longevity and lifetime education: global evidence from 919 surveys

Mohammad Mainul Hoque, Elizabeth King, Claudio Montenegro and Peter Orazem

201901010800001023: Performance Pay, the Marriage Market and Rising Income Inequality in Taiwan

Shao-Hsun Keng and Peter Orazem

201812290800001086: Bounding Average Returns to Schooling using Unconditional Moment Restrictions

Desire Kedagni, Lixiong Li and Ismael Mourifie

201812180800001733: Farm labor hard to find

Lee Schulz

201812120800001060: The Fight-or-Flight Response to the Joneses and Income Inequality

Richard Barnett, Joydeep Bhattacharya and Helle Bunzel

201812030800001067: Intergenerational Debt Dynamics Without Tears

Torben M. Andersen and Joydeep Bhattacharya

201812010800001709: Price-Weight Relationship for Feeder Cattle: An Updated Dairy-Beef Assessment

Lee Schulz, Brenda L. Boetel and Kevin Dhuyvetter

201812010800001609: Do farmers adopt fewer conservation practices on rented land? Evidence from straw retention in China

Li Gao, Wendong Zhang, Yingdan Mei, Abdoul G. Sam, Yu Song and Shuqin Jin

201812010800001089: The Greenness of Rural and Urban Pakistan Over Time: Household Energy Use and Carbon Emissions

Syed M. Hasan and Wendong Zhang

201812010800001061: Burning Waters to Crystal Springs? U.S. Water Pollution Regulation Over the Last Half Century

David A. Keiser and Joseph Shapiro

201811210800001734: Farmer-feeders may be fading

Lee Schulz

201811010700001066: Pareto-improving transition to fully funded pensions under myopia

Torben M. Andersen, Joydeep Bhattacharya and Marias H. Gestsson

201811010700001062: Efficiency with Endogenous Population and Fixed Resources

Juan Cordoba and Xiying Liu

201811010700001028: Braided Cobwebs: Cautionary Tales for Dynamic Pricing in Retail Electric Power Markets

Auswin George Thomas and Leigh Tesfatsion

201810180700001650: Biomass for Bioenergy: Optimal Collection Mechanisms and Pricing when Feedstock Supply Does Not Equal Availability

Chao Li, Dermot Hayes and Keri Jacobs

201810170700001735: Kill capacity, exports sway hog market

Lee Schulz

201810150700001647: Pre‐Play Learning and the Preference Reversal Phenomenon

Younjun Kim and Elizabeth Hoffman

201810050700001041: Transactive Energy Design for Integrated Transmission and Distribution Systems

Hieu Trung Nguyen, Swathi Battula, Rohit Reddy Takkala, Zhaoyu Wang and Leigh Tesfatsion

201810030700001646: Crop yield responses to prices: a Bayesian approach to blend experimental and market data

Juan Rosas, Sergio Lence and Dermot Hayes

201810010700001687: Long term biochar effects on corn yield, soil quality and profitability in the US Midwest

Deborah Aller, Sotirios V. Archontoulis, Wendong Zhang, Wendiam Sawadgo, David Laird and Kenneth J. Moore

201809190700001736: Better efficiency helps feedlot margins

Lee Schulz

201809110700001056: Identifying Treatment Effects in the Presence of Confounded Types

Desire Kedagni

201809010700001093: Contrast Effects in Investment and Financing Decisions

Jae Hyoung Kim and Elizabeth Hoffman

201808240700001070: A way to resolve intergenerational conflict over the environment under the Pareto criterion using green bonds

Torben M. Andersen, Joydeep Bhattacharya and Pan Liu

201808220700001737: Retail beef prices should ease

Lee Schulz

201808150700001050: Environmental Policies in the Transportation Sector: Taxes, Subsidies, Mandates, Restrictions, and Investment

Justin Beaudoin, Yuan Chen, David Heres, Khaled H. Kheiravar, Gabriel E. Lade, Fujin Yi, Wei Zhang and C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell

201808060700001033: Rational ecosystems-based fisheries management

Rajesh Singh and Quinn Weninger

201807180700001626: Ozone pollution in US national parks is nearly the same as in large cities

David Keiser, Gabriel Lade and Ivan Rudik

201807180700001621: Air pollution and visitation at U.S. national parks

David A. Keiser, Gabriel Lade and Ivan Rudik

201807170700001738: Hog expansion accelerating

Lee Schulz

201807030700001619: Estimating Willingness to Pay for E85 in the United States Using an Intercept Survey of Flex Motorists

Sebastien Pouliot, Kenneth A. Liao and Bruce Babcock

201807010700001056: Rural land titling and property rights: does legislating smallholdings as a non-seizable family asset improve smallholder family farmers’ welfare?

Juan M. Murguia, Kassu W. Hossiso and Sergio Lence

201806290700001048: The Missing Benefits of Clean Water and the Role of Mismeasured Pollution

David A. Keiser

201806200700001047: Agricultural Mechanization and BMI for Rural Workers: A Field Experiment in China

Zizhen Guo, Yu Jiang and Sonya K Huffman

201806180700001739: Forage supplies help drive cattle prices

Lee Schulz

201806040700001046: How to create conducive institutions to enable agricultural mechanization: A comparative historical study from the United States and Germany

Thomas Daum, Wallace Huffman and Regina Birner

201805240700001756: Strong basis can be short hedger’s dream

Lee Schulz

201805210700001760: Beef cow herd expansion slowing?

Lee Schulz

201805010700001055: Does the Women, Infants, and Children Program (WIC) Improve Infant Health Outcomes?

Brent Kreider, John Pepper and Manan Roy

201804290700001595: Cover Crops Use in Midwestern U.S. Agriculture: Perceived Benefits and Net Returns

Alejandro Plastina, Fangge Liu, Fernando E. Miguez and Sarah Carlson

201804260700001615: Effect of government quality grade labels on consumer demand for pork chops in the short and long run

Jayson Lusk, Glynn Tonsor, Ted Schroeder and Dermot Hayes

201804250700001618: A Parametric Estimation of Total Factor Productivity and Its Components in U.S. Agriculture

Alejandro Plastina and Sergio Lence

201804200700001044: Can Banks Placate Knowledgeable Depositors by Offering Higher Interest Rates During a Banking Crisis?

Glenn Boyle, Roger D. Stover, Amrit Tiwana and Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy

201804180700001740: Hogs in a cost-price squeeze

Lee Schulz

201804120700001043: Do State Marginal Tax Rates Lower State Labor Productivity?

Joseph E. McPhail, Peter Orazem, Rajesh Singh and Rick Stammer

201804010700001643: The economic origins of the postwar southern elite

Brandon Dupont and Joshua Rosenbloom

201804010700001623: Policy Shocks and Market-Based Regulations: Evidence from the Renewable Fuel Standard

Gabriel Lade, C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell and Aaron Smith