IMPACTS OF THE FARM FINANCIAL CRISIS: RESULTS OF THE 1989 REGIONAL FARM SURVEY FOR MINNESOTA

Agricultural Finance,

Mercantilism and Domestic Industry in West-Central Nepal: Significance for Anthropological Study of the Community

Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology - Volume 2, 199

Government spending in the top ten U.S. states for public corruption is artificially higher by more than $1,300 per capita every year

In the minds of many, the government corruption tends to be a problem largely limited to developing countries. Yet, in new research Cheol Liu and John L. Mikesell, find that corruption across U.S. states is a major – and costly – problem. They find that the ten most corrupt states could have reduced their annual expenditure by more than $1,300 per capita, if their level of corruption was reduced to the states’ average. They also argue that public corruption influences how state resources are allocated to favor more “bribe-generating” spending such as construction, highways, correction, and police protection ahead of education, health and hospitals

MODELING ANIMAL AND FORAGE RESPONSE TO FERTILIZATION OF ANNUAL RANGELANDS

The response functions for forage, animal gain, and stocking rate were estimated from data obtained in a three-year fertilization experiment on California annual range. Degree-days; the interactions between degree-days and nitrogen, between degree-days and phosphorus-sulphur, and between nitrogen and phosphorus-sulphur; and the lagged forage variable were significant in explaining the variations in forage growth, animal gain, and stocking rate. The impact of PS was more important in interaction with DD or N than by itself. The correct impact of moisture was not found due to misspecification of the variable in the model. The models for the first year and the three years combined were well behaved; however, the models for the last two years combined neither explained adequately nor behaved well.Livestock Production/Industries,

Impacts of Adding Net Worth to the Poverty Definition

This paper estimates changes in the level and composition of poverty that would result from modifying the conventional income-based poverty measure to include the annuity value of household net worth. Under the new income/wealth measure, 13 percent of those currently measured as poor have enough assets to be removed from poverty. Among those more often found to be in poverty under the new measure are young, renters, and large central city residents. Age, home ownership, farm employment, education, retirement status, public assistance participation, and residence in the West are significant factors in explaining the divergence of the alternative poverty measures.

Avian habitat selection in the attenuated riparian forest on the tallgrass prairie

Call number: LD2668 .T4 BIOL 1988 M55Master of ScienceBiolog