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Attitudes and Farmer Conservation Behavior
Author(s) -
Lynne Gary D.,
Shonkwiler J. S.,
Rola Leandro R.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1241971
Subject(s) - tobit model , context (archaeology) , value (mathematics) , affect (linguistics) , variable (mathematics) , extension (predicate logic) , economics , estimation , econometrics , microeconomics , public economics , social psychology , mathematics , psychology , statistics , geography , computer science , mathematical analysis , management , archaeology , communication , programming language
Conservation behavior is influenced by the attitudes of farmers and by context variables, like income and farm terrain. Important attitudes were selected by using the theory that fundamental value ranks or weights affect attitudes and that only certain values are important to the conservation decision. An extension of the tobit estimation approach, handling both censored observations of the dependent variable and measurement error for the nonlimit observations, was used. Conservation behavior models can be improved with a merger of concepts and approaches from social psychology and economics.