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2. Decision making : the role of education
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Huffman, Wallace E. (author / Assistant Professor of Economics, Oklahoma State University) and Assistant Professor of Economics, Oklahoma State University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1974
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: C00078
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 56 (1): 85-97
- Notes:
- INTERPAKS, Study examines the contribution of education to production both as an "allocative effect" and as a "worker effect". An allocative effect is based on the decision making process and refers to an individual's ability to acquire, decode, and sort market and technical information efficiently. Worker effect reflects education's effect on technical efficiency, or the ability of the more educated worker to produce more from a given set of inputs. The study focuses on a single aspect of allocative ability - adjustment of Midwestern U.S. farmers to the changing optimum quantity of nitrogen fertilizer in corn production. The hypothesis is that rate of adjustment can be explained by economic variables: the rate is positively related to education of farmers, availability of information (extensio), and scale incentive to be informed (acres of corn) is supported by the results. It is also noted that education and extension serve as substitute sources of allocative efficiency.
3. Returns to information an addendum
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Debertin, David L. (author), Harrison, G. A. (author), and Rades, R. J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1976
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 50 Document Number: C00262
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 58(2): 321-323
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection
4. The impact of information on environmental commodity valuation decisions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bergstrom, John C. (author), Randall, Alan (author), Stoll, John R. (author), and Bergstrom: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia; Stoll: Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University; Randall: Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Ohio State University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1990-08
- Published:
- USA: Ames, IA : American Agricultural Economics Association.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06814
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 72 (3) : 614-621
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 90050733, A conceptual model is developed which provides insight into how information affects willingness to pay for environmental commodities. A refutable hypothesis of the effects of a specific information type on the magnitude of willingness to pay for an environmental commodity is developed. This hypothesis is tested using a contingent valuation method experiment. Results indicate that information affects willingness to pay in a theoretically plausible manner. The results support the contention that information is important for accurate environmental commodity consumer valuations.