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Three essays on the economics of pesticide use
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
, the adoption of organic pesticides in lawns and gardens is examined. A multinomial logit model is applied to analyze factors affecting adoption versus being in distinct non-adopter categories using a dataset from a survey of 661 residents in Missouri...
Three essays on Renewable Portfolio Standards
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
The first essay investigates the technical efficiencies of South Korean solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants by type: ground-mounted PV (GPV) and rooftop PV (BPV). The two-step stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) of the ...
Three essays regarding U.S. crop policy and risk
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Agricultural policy is an important component of risk management in U.S. agriculture. This dissertation focuses on various aspects of this topic. In the first essay, we find that baselines generated for policy analysis can ...