Grazing, Goods and Girth: Determinants and Effects

Daniel S. Hamermesh

NBER Working Paper No. 15277
Issued in August 2009

---- Acknowledgements -----

Sue Killam Professor in the Foundations of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, professor of labor economics, Maastricht University, and research associate, IZA and NBER. I thank the U.S. Department of Agriculture for support under Cooperative Agreement #58-4000-6-0055. Jason Abrevaya, Stephen Barnes, Lex Borghans, Joanne Guthrie, Tim Halliday, Karen Hamrick, Andrew Oswald and participants in seminars at several universities offered helpful comments, and Holly Monti and Karen Mulligan provided extremely competent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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