includes review drafts of papers submitted to professional journals and other periodicals and serves as an outlet for miscellaneous research, extension, and instruction reports.
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Measuring Farm Sustainability Using Data Envelope Analysis with Principal Components: The Case of the Wisconsin Cranberry
Staff Paper No. 568, January 2013, 42p.
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Long-Run Costs of Piecemeal Reform: Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Vietnam
Staff Paper No. 566,
Revised: April 2013, 48p.
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Economic Assessment of the Benefits of Chloro-s-triazine Herbicides to U.S. Corn, Sorghum, and Sugarcane Producers
Staff Paper No. 564, November 2011, 51p.
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Estimating Soil Erosion and Fuel Use Changes and Their Monetary Values with AGSIM: A Case Study for Triazine Herbicides
Staff Paper No. 563, November 2011, 97p.
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USDA’s Livestock Gross Margin Insurance for Dairy: What is it and How Can it be Used for Risk Management
Staff Paper No. 562, October 2011, 75p.
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Sequential Adoption of Package Technologies: The Dynamics of Stacked Trait Corn Adoption
Staff Paper No. 556, November 2010, 42p.
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Sustainability Under Siege: Transport Costs and Corruption on West Africa’s Trade Corridors
Staff Paper No. 554, November 2010, 44p.
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The Fiscal Health of Wisconsin Counties: An Analysis of Primary and Secondary Data
Staff Paper No. 552, October 2010, 38p.
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The Ecological Footprint of Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from Mexico's Oportunidades Program
Staff Paper No. 549, August 2010, 47p.
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Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico's National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program
Staff Paper No. 548, August 2010, 53p.
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A Real Options Framework for Analyzing Program Participation as Human Capital Investments: The Case of the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) Program
Staff Paper No. 547, August 2010, 38p.
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A Semi-Parametric Analysis of Technology, with an Application to U.S. Dairy Farms
Staff Paper No. 545, March 2010, 42p.
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An Analysis of Bundle Pricing in Horizontal and Vertical Markets: The Case of the U.S. Cottonseed Market
Staff Paper No. 543, December 2009, 37p.
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The Dynamics of the U.S. Milk Supply: Implications for Changes in U.S. Dairy Policy
Staff Paper No. 540, July 2009, 40p.
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Trade, Technology and Inequality in a Developing Country: Theory and Evidence from China
Staff Paper No. 539, July 2009, 44p.
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Valuing a Spatially Variable Environmental Resource: Reducing Non-Point Source Pollution in Green Bay, WI
Staff Paper No. 538, May 2009, 33p.
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The Effects of Aquatic Invasive Species on Property Values: Evidence from a Quasi-Random Experiment
Staff Paper No. 530, November 2008, 40p.
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The Rise of China and India and the Commodity Boom: Economic and Environmental Implications for Low-Income Countries
Staff Paper No. 528, July 2008, 41p.
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Prospects for Skills-Based Export Growth in a Labour-Abundant, Resource-Rich Economy: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective
Staff Paper No. 524, April 2008, 34p.
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The Dynamic Effects of Open-Space Conservation Policies on Residential Development Density
Staff Paper No. 522, January 2008, 40p.
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An Empirical Investigation of Reputation Loan Size Dynamics in Rural Credit Markets in Honduras
Staff Paper No. 520, December 2007, 39p.
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Spatial Externalities in Agriculture: Empirical Analysis, Statistical Identification, and Policy Implications
Staff Paper No. 519, December 2007, 46p.
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Smoothing Income Against Crop Flood Losses in Amazonia: Rain Forest or Rivers as a Safety Net
Staff Paper No. 518, December 2007, 33p.
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The Role of Microenterprises in Economic Growth:A Panel Study of Wisconsin Counties 1977 to 1997
Staff Paper No. 514, September 2007, 24p.
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Patenting, Commercialization, and US Academic Research in the 21st Century:The Resilience of Basic, Federally-Funded Open Science
Staff Paper No. 513, September 2007, 31p.
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Unbalanced Nested Component Error Model and the Value of Soil Insecticide and Bt Corn for Controlling Western Corn Rootworm
Staff Paper No. 510, July 2007, 34p.
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Economic Analysis of Supplemental Deductible Coverage as Recommended in the USDA’s 2007 Farm Bill Proposal
Staff Paper No. 509, July 2007, 32p.
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Understanding Community Impacts: A Tool for Evaluating Externalities from Local Bio-Fuels Production
Staff Paper No. 505, December 2006, 17p.
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Is Tourism-Based Development Good for the Poor? A General Equilibrium Analysis for Thailand
Staff Paper No. 502, November 2006, 52p.
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Should the Government Finance Public Goods in Rural Areas? A Review of Arguments
Staff Paper No. 497, April 2006, 23p.
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The Duopolistic Firm with Endogenous Risk Control: Case of Persuasive Advertising and Product Differentiation
Staff Paper No. 496, March 2006, 42p.
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Poverty and Inequality in the First Decade of South Africa's Democracy: What Can be Learned from Panel Data?
Staff Paper No. 493, February 2006, 21p.
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An Analysis of Retail and Service Sector Count Data: Identification of Market Potential for Wisconsin Counties
Staff Paper No. 492, January 2006, 56p.
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An Economic Analysis of the Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Asian Dairy Market
Staff Paper No. 490, August 2005, 26p.
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Shocks, Sensitivity and Resilience: Tracking the Economic Impacts of Environmental Disaster on Assets in Ethiopia and Honduras
Staff Paper No. 489, August 2005, 39p.
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Negative Stereotypes and Willingness to Change Them: Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa
Staff Paper No. 488, July 2005, 26p.
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Research and Development at U.S. Research Universities: An Analysis of Scope Economies
Staff Paper No. 487, July 2005, 43p.
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Do Conservation Easements Reduce Land Prices? The Case of South Central Wisconsin
Staff Paper No. 484, June 2005, 27p.
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Biodiesel Feasibility Study: An Evaluation of Biodiesel Feasibility in Wisconsin
Staff Paper No. 481, March 2005, 37p.
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International Trade and the Natural Resource 'Curse' in Southeast Asia: Does China's Growth Threaten Regional Development
Staff Paper No. 480, November 2004, 25p.
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Endogenous Information Structures in Conservation Contracting
Timo Goeschl
Tun Lin
Staff Paper No. 479, October 2004, 46p.
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Sense in Sociability? Social Exclusion and Persistent Poverty in South Africa
Staff Paper No. 477, September 2004, 37p.
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Social Capital and the Reproduction of Inequality in Socially Polarized Economies
Staff Paper No. 476, July 2004, 39p.
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Developed Speculation and Under Developed Markets - The Role of Futures Trading on Export Prices in Less Developed Countries
Staff Paper No. 470, May 2004, 31p.
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Price Discovery in the World Sugar Futures and Cash Markets: Implications for the Domincan Republic
Staff Paper No. 469, March 2005, 24p.
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Experience, Expectations and Hindsight: Evidence of a Cognitive Wedge in Stated Preference Retrospectives
Staff Paper No. 468, March 2004, 28p.
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Hijackers and Hostages in Non-Binding Linked-Issues Referenda: Analysis and an Application
Timo Goeschl
Staff Paper No. 466, December 2003, 24p.
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Returns to Schooling, Institutions and Heterogeneous Diploma Effects: An Expanded Mincerian Framework applied to Mexico
Aashish Mehta
Hector J. Villarreal
Staff Paper No. 465, December 2003, 28p.
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Trade, Liberalization, Resource Degradation and Industrial Pollution in Developing Countries: An Integrated Analysis
Staff Paper No. 462, October 2003, 36p.
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Urban Growth, Rural Land Conversion and the Fiscal Well-Being of Local Municipalities
Staff Paper No. 461, September 2003, 27p.
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Social Capital and Incentive Compatibility: Modelling the Accumulation and Use of Social Collateral
Staff Paper No. 460, September 2003, 36p.
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Estimating Post-Harvest Benefits from Increases in Commercial Fish Catches with Implications for Remediation of Impingement and Entrainment Losses at Power Plants
Staff Paper No. 458, February 2003, 11p.
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On the Decline of Agriculture in Developing Countries: A Reinterpretation of the Evidence
Staff Paper No. 457, December 2002, 47p.
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Wisconsin Local Government, State Shared Revenues and the Illusive Flypaper Effect
Staff Paper No. 451, July 2002, 16p.
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Local Government Taxing, Spending and Economic Growth: New Evidence for Wisconsin
Staff Paper No. 447, April 2002, 36p.
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Local Public Services in Wisconsin: Alternatives for Municipalities with a Focus on Privatization
Staff Paper No. 441, June 2001, 52p.
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A Study of Costs of Compliance Related to Non-Point Pollution Rules for Wisconsin Crop Producers
Staff Paper No. 439, February 2001, 26p.
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Structural Change in the U.S. Dairy Industry: Growth in Scale, Regional Shifts in Milk Production and Processing, and Internationalism
William D. Dobson
Paul Christ
Staff Paper No. 438, December 2000, 25p.
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Enhancing Rural Women's Access to Capital: Why It Is Important And How It Can Be Done. The Case of Colombia
Diana Fletschner
Staff Paper No. 437, October 2000, 66p.
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Wealth Accumulation and Activity Choice Evolution Among Amazonian Forest Peasant Households
Staff Paper No. 434, September 2000, 37p.
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Getting Institutions 'Right' for Whom: Credit Constraints and the Impact of Property Rights on the Quantity and Compostiton of Investment
Staff Paper No. 433, June 2000, 36p.
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Economic Impact of Youth Hockey Tournaments: A Case Study of the La Crosse and Onalaska Ice Rinks
Staff Paper No. 432, May 2000, 9p.
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Tax Reform and the Environment in Developing Economies: Is a Double Dividend Possible
Staff Paper No. 431, July 2000, 25p.
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Do National Markets and Price Policies Affect Land Use at the Forest Margin? Evidence from the Philippines
Staff Paper No. 426, November 1999, 36p.
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Development Policies, Resource Constraints, and Agricultural Expansion on the Philippine Land Frontier
Staff Paper No. 425, October 1999, 40p.
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Thailand's Economic Boom and Agricultural Bust: Some Economic Questions and Policy Puzzles
Staff Paper No. 419, September 1998, 43p.
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The Evolution of Agricultural Soil Quality: A Methodology for Measurement and Some Land Market Implications
Staff Paper No. 414, December 1997, 34p.
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Recovering a Soil Quality Measure from Crop Trials Data: A Dynamic Econometric Method
Staff Paper No. 413, August 1997, 26p.
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The Source of Technical Change in Italian Agriculture: A Latent Variable Approach
Roberto Esposti
Pierpaolo Pierani
Staff Paper No. 411, April 1997, 24p.
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Analysis of Expected Price Dynamics Between Fluid Milk Futures Contracts and Cash Prices for Fluid Milk
Staff Paper No. 407, January 1997, 30p.
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A Trade Area Analysis of Wisconsin Retail Markets
Staff Paper No. 404, December 1996, 27p.
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Asset Smoothing, Consumption Smoothing and the Reproduction for Inequality under Risk and Subsistence Constraints
Staff Paper No. 402, January 1999, 40p.
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Rethinking the Demand for Institutional Innovation Land Rights and Land Markets in the West African Sahel
Staff Paper No. 400, August 1996, 27p.
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Nonparametric Measures of the Impacts of Public Research Expenditures on Australian Broadacre Agriculture: Preliminary Results
Staff Paper No. 399, August 1996, 37p.
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Dimensions and Diversity of Property Rights in Rural China: Dilemmas on the Road to Further Reform
Staff Paper No. 395, February 1997, 37p.
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Land Reform, Taxes, Privatization, Land Markets and the Feasibility of Mortgage-Backed Credit for Agriculture in Russia
John Strasma
Natalia Zenets
Staff Paper No. 394, April 1996, 27p.
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Indigenous Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: Appropriation, Security and Investment Demand
Staff Paper No. 391, March 1996, 35p.
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Measuring Farm and Farm-related Jobs in Wisconsin - 1992
William E. Saupe
T. Alexander Majchrowicz
Staff Paper No. 390, February 1996, 32p.
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Issues in Data Management of Expenditure Surveys: An Example from the Colombian 1984-85 Urban Survey
Staff Paper No. 389, December 1995, 40p.
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Spatial Equilibrium with Intermediate Products: Implementation and Validation in the Mercosur
Staff Paper No. 388, December 1995, 33p.
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Measuring the Environmental Impacts of Economic Change: The Case of Land Degradation in Philippine Agriculture
Staff Paper No. 384, June 1995, 44p.
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Low Capital Dairy Strategies in Wisconsin: Lessons from a New Approach to Measuring Profitability
Staff Paper No. 381, October 1994, 29p.
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The Impacts of Agricultural Liberalization on Commodity Price Distributions: Evidence from Madagascar
Staff Paper No. 380, September 1994, 45p.
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The Price of Pollution: A Dual Approach to Valuing SO2 Allowances
Staff Paper No. 378, June 1994, 22p.
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Regional Impacts of Reducing Dairy Price Supports and Removing Milk Marketing Orders in the U.S. Dairy Sector
Staff Paper No. 377, February 1997, 31p.
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Regional Impacts of Reducing Dairy Price Supports and Removing Milk Marketing Orders in the U.S. Dairy Sector
Staff Paper No. 377, February 1997, 32p.
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Implementing Agricultural Policy Virtually: The Case of Set-Aside
Staff Paper No. 376, April 1994, 27p.
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64% Majority Rule in Ducal Venice: Voting for the Doge
Staff Paper No. 375, April 1994, 16p.
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Trade and Food Industries: Public and Social Choice
Staff Paper No. 374, March 1994, 17p.
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A Nonparametric Analysis of the Source and Nature of Technical Change: the Case of U.S. Agriculture
Staff Paper No. 373, February 1994, 32p.
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A Primal-Dual Approach to Nonparametric Productivity Analysis: the Case of U.S. Agriculture
Staff Paper No. 372, February 1994, 27p.
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Nonparametric Analysis of Production Efficiency
Staff Paper No. 371, February 1994, 24p.
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The Economically Efficient Rate of Waste Disposal in a Landfill: An Application to Rusk County, Wisconsin
Staff Paper No. 370, March 1994, 11p.
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Structural Adjustment and Welfare in Rural Africa: The Role of Resource Control in Households
Lisa C. Smitch
Staff Paper No. 368, January 1994, 43p.
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Measuring the Benefits of Groundwater Protection from Agricultural Contamination: Results from a Two-Stage Contingent Valuation Study
Gregory L. Poe
Richard C. Bishop
Staff Paper No. 341, May 1992, 34p.
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The Evolution of Agrarian Structure in Latin America: An Econometric Investigation of Brazil
Staff Paper No. 298, December 1988, 38p.
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