Assessing Farmers' Willingness to Accept "Greening": Insights from a Discrete Choice Experiment in Germany

Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 26-48

  Schulz, Norbert ^a   Breustedt, Gunnar ^a   Latacz Lohmann, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Common Agricultural Policy; Discrete choice modelling; Greening; Latent class estimation

Indexed keywords

ARABLE FARMING; COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; DAIRY FARMING; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; SMALLHOLDER;

GERMANY;

EID: 84893024014     PISSN: 0021857X     EISSN: 14779552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12044     Document Type: Article

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