Risk Preferences and Environmental Uncertainty: Implications for Crop Diversification Decisions in Ethiopia
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- Mintewab Bezabih & Mare Sarr, 2012. "Risk Preferences and Environmental Uncertainty: Implications for Crop Diversification Decisions in Ethiopia," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 53(4), pages 483-505, December.
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Keywords
Crop diversity; Experimental risk preferences; Rainfall; Uncertainty;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics
- Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
- C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
- C35 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2013-01-26 (Africa)
- NEP-AGR-2013-01-26 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-CBE-2013-01-26 (Cognitive & Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2013-01-26 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2013-01-26 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-UPT-2013-01-26 (Utility Models & Prospect Theory)
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