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Value of parsimonious nutritional information, consumer-oriented foods cluster, and predicting food price
(2016-12)
This dissertation focuses on three topics that relate to consumer behavior and the food industry. The first chapter investigates consumers' beliefs about the tastiness and healthfulness of 173 food items in a framed field ...
Food Pantry's Contribution Towards Reducing the Needs-Gap
(2019-05-01)
This research estimates the contribution of a local food pantry's food assistance program in helping lower-income households. The assistance provided is measured by the extent to which it closes households' needs-gaps, ...
Assessing the Rate of Success of Alternative Farm Transition Strategies
(2019-05-01)
Research suggests only 30 percent of family owned businesses successfully transfer from the founding generation to the second generation. These success rates continue to decline when transferring to subsequent generations. ...
Three studies on Mexican agriculture
(2012-12)
Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation is composed of three studies aimed to analyze several aspects of the agricultural sector in Mexico including efficiency, agricultural Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the ...
Three essays in energy, environmental and regional economics
(2018-07)
This dissertation is comprised of three studies on the relationship between energy and environmental issues and the regional economy. The first study presents evidence that electricity influx to the U.S. Northeast increased ...
Three essays on broadband adoption
(2018-05)
This dissertation focuses on three issues surrounding broadband internet adoption. The first study examines the recent shift to mobile-only internet connections. The percentage of mobile-only households increased from 9% ...
Costs and benefits of stored rice insect management methods
(2011-12)
Rice quality is important to rice consumers. Insect infestation can significantly reduce the quality, and thus the economic value, of rice. It can also cause quantity losses. Traditional chemical-based pest management uses ...
Essays on residential water demand and consumer preferences for turfgrass attributes
(2015-07)
The first essay determined the residential water demand and the factors affecting water demand for different periods (pre-drought vs. during-drought and summer vs. winter) in Oklahoma City area. Individual household water ...
Economics of household solar panel and wind turbine systems
(2017-05)
Small wind turbines and photovoltaic (PV) technologies are available for purchase and use to provide households with electricity. The objective of this research is to determine the economic consequences of installing ...