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Latest Research on Poverty Level : May 2020

Editor NetZen May 11, 2020Agricultural ExtensionAgricultural Extension Leave a comment

Vaccination coverage by race/ethnicity and poverty level among children aged 19-35 months– United States, 1996. The Childhood Immunization Initiative (CII), implemented in 1993, is an intensive program to increase vaccination coverage among preschool-aged children and to reduce or eliminate vaccine-preventable diseases. In 1996, national coverage goals were achieved for 2-year-old children for the most critical doses of each routinely recommended vaccine. Disparities in vaccination coverage have been documented previously among different racial/ethnic groups. This report presents findings from CDC’s National … Continue reading “Latest Research on Poverty Level : May 2020”

News Update on Dairy Farms Research: Feb – 2020

Editor NetZen February 5, 2020Agricultural Extension, EconomicsAgricultural Extension, Dairy Farms, Economics Leave a comment

A Generalized Production Frontier Approach for Estimating Determinants of Inefficiency in U.S. Dairy Farms This article investigates farm-level efficiency of U.S. dairy farmers by estimating their technical and allocative efficiency. Technical inefficiency is assumed to be composed of a deterministic component that’s a function of some farm-specific characteristics and a random component. By doing this we extend the stochastic frontier methodology during which determinants of technicial inefficiency are explicitly introduced within the model. Given the inputs, variations in efficiency of … Continue reading “News Update on Dairy Farms Research: Feb – 2020”

Latest Research on Dairy Farmers: Feb – 2020

Editor NetZen February 1, 2020Agricultural Extension, EconomicsAgricultural Extension, Dairy Farmers, Economics Leave a comment

Motivation of Dairy Farmers to Improve Mastitis Management The aims of this study were 1) to explore different motivating factors and to quantify their importance in decisions of farmers on improving mastitis management, 2) to guage different quality payment schemes as extra incentive mechanisms for farmers, and 3) to link the motivating factors to farmer characteristics. Data on characteristics of farmers were obtained through a standard paper-based questionnaire (n = 100). Data on the factors motivating farmers to enhance mastitis … Continue reading “Latest Research on Dairy Farmers: Feb – 2020”

Latest Research News on Industrial Firms: Jan – 2020

Editor NetZen January 30, 2020Agricultural Extension, EconomicsAgricultural Extension, Economics, Industrial Firms Leave a comment

New product processes at leading industrial firms This article is about game plans for brand spanking new products. The strategic importance of development including high risks and failure rates has led many companies to reconsider the way they are going about conceiving, developing, and launching new products. Some firms have adopted a proper new product process or “stage-gate system” for moving new product projects from idea to launch [1]. this text reports the performance results that a couple of leading … Continue reading “Latest Research News on Industrial Firms: Jan – 2020”

Latest Research News on Household Income: Jan – 2020

Editor NetZen January 23, 2020Agricultural Extension, EconomicsAgricultural Extension, Economics, Household Income Leave a comment

Household Income and Child Schooling in Vietnam The stronger are the associations between household income and child schooling, the lower is intergenerational social mobility and therefore the less equal is opportunity. This study estimates the associations between household income and children’s school success in Vietnam. The estimates indicate that these associations are considerable. for instance , the income elasticity of completed grades is five times the median estimate of earlier studies. Moreover, this association is strongest for grades completed per … Continue reading “Latest Research News on Household Income: Jan – 2020”