Publications by authors named "Matthew P Dube"
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- Farmers are changing the crops they grow to adapt to new environmental and market conditions, which is called crop switching.
- This study looks at how often and where crop switching happens in the United States using detailed data from 2008 to 2022.
- They found that crop switching is more common in diverse and less farmed areas but less common in highly uniform farming regions, showing that farmers’ choices depend on different factors across the country.
Social change in any society entails changes in both behaviours and institutions. We model a group-structured society in which the transmission of individual behaviour occurs in parallel with the selection of group-level institutions. We consider a cooperative behaviour that generates collective benefits for groups but does not spread between individuals on its own.
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