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Willingness Of Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners To Obtain A Private Versus Public Consultation, Erika Largacha
Willingness Of Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners To Obtain A Private Versus Public Consultation, Erika Largacha
LSU Master's Theses
Promoting conservation practices among family forests landowners play a critical role to enhance forest health and ecosystem services. Several certification programs recognize such efforts, but participation among landowners varies based on their characteristics, program requirements, and incentives. One crucial step of certification is to obtain a forest management plan, but acquisition among landowners remains extremely low. Several studies suggest connecting landowners with foresters as the key element towards the adoption of forest management plans. Because foresters are typically employed by public forestry agencies or as private self-employed consultants, landowners' willingness to work with either may differ. As far as we …
Implementing Four Modeling Improvement Strategies To Measure The Economic Contribution Of The Alligator Farming Industry In Louisiana, Ilich Fernan Rosales Chiessa
Implementing Four Modeling Improvement Strategies To Measure The Economic Contribution Of The Alligator Farming Industry In Louisiana, Ilich Fernan Rosales Chiessa
LSU Master's Theses
The alligator industry in Louisiana has not had a study in thirty years that has measured its economic contribution. The industry has changed structurally over that period, and it produces more alligator skins but is concentrated in a smaller number of producers. With current threats to the industry through potential bans on alligator sales in states like California, the importance of these studies for the industry are more important now than ever. This study measures the economic contribution of American alligator across the supply chain of the state of Louisiana through four different modeling improvement strategies. These consist of using …
Three Essays On Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Rakhe Balachandran
Three Essays On Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Rakhe Balachandran
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGs) is the largest public works program in the world with an objective to ensure rural livelihood security by generating employment through infrastructure projects. This thesis is comprised of three essays investigating the MGNREGs’ impact on rural communities and the labor market. The first essay examined the targeting accuracy of the program. I simultaneously controlled for the self-selection bias and endogeneity bias between poverty and program participation using an extended probit model. Using data from National Sample Survey (NSS) 2014, I find that households closer to the poverty line are more likely …