Previous research on landowner willingness to retire land into the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is based on cross-sectional data prior to 2002. Using enrollment data on a CRP subprogram from 1998 to 2010 we find that incentives matter more for pasture than cropland, and we find that counties producing cattle respond more strongly to current incentives. We also see an idiosyncratic lack of...

We conduct a national-scale analysis of the determinants of agricultural land values. The theoretical basis for the study is a spatial city model with stochastic returns to future land development. The empirical model of agricultural land prices is estimated with a crosssection on approximately three thousand counties in the contiguous US. The results provide evidence that option values associa...

This paper explores how wealth and inequality can affect self-governed solutions to commons dilemmas by constraining group cooperation. It reports a series of experiments in the field where subjects are actual commons users. Household data about the participants’ context explain statistically the usually observed wide variation found within and across groups in similar experiments. Participants...

Hedonic valuation of quality attributes can be misleading when the assumption that these attributes are exogenous to sample selection is violated. This paper considers the simultaneity between hedonic valuation and sample selection in the context of a model of producer behavior and investigates empirically the case where land is demanded for use as an input either in agricultural production or ...

This article investigates the behavioral drivers of pasture creation and associated implications for deforestation in a 22,000 km2 agricultural frontier spanning the base of Mexico‘s southern Yucatán. After developing a theoretical model that highlights the role of social networks and information spillovers with respect to the decision to begin cattle ranching, we use household data to estimate...

In this paper, different fractional order transfer functions are taken first and discretized them using available methods and filters (i.e. Oustaloup or modified Oustaloup). Coefficients of discretized transfer function are calculated and scaled using Q15 number system to get the coefficients in the range between -1 to 1, and converted into equivalent hexadecimal number. These coefficients are ...

There are three fundamental bias currents to be chosen for this novel transimpedance stage: the collector current of the emitter followers Q8 and Q9, that of the common-emitter transistors Q10 and Q11, and finally the current in the folded cascodes formed by Q14 and Q15. Needless to say, the collector current of complementary pairs (e.g., Q8 and Q9) should be set to approximately equal values. ...

Uterine leiomyomata are one of several benign tumors characterized by frequent chromosomal rearrangement involving 12q15. The 12q15 rearrangement in leiomyomata typically is manifested as t(12;14)(q15;q23-24), which has been hypothesized to create pathobiologically significant fusion transcripts derived from HMGA2 and RAD51L1. To explore further this hypothesis, we mapped chromosomal breakpoint...