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Title: | Stochastic Technology, Risk Preferences, and the Use of Pollution Inputs |
Author(s): | Shankar, Bhavani |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Braden, John B.; Nelson, Charles H. |
Department / Program: | Agricultural Economics |
Discipline: | Agricultural Economics |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Environmental Sciences |
Abstract: | It is argued that these findings might help clarify the "underuse puzzle" observed in previous studies of aggregate pesticide use in US agriculture. These studies may have interpreted the effect of positive marginal risk premium for aggregate pesticide use as puzzling pesticide underuse. |
Issue Date: | 1999 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 113 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/83032 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI9921728 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-25 |
Date Deposited: | 1999 |
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Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois