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Volume 10, Issue 3 (Number 3 - 2008)
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Conjunctive use of ground and surface water can increase reliability of the water supply by providing independent sources. In this study, corrected utility-efficient pro-gramming that allows for more than one seasonal irrigation depth for each crop was used to determine the amount of utility maximizing investment in the well capacity for conjunctive use. Results showed that optimum investment at the 15% discount rate for the small, medium and large representative farms with a low degree of risk aversion is 150341, 531592.7 and 1084648 thousand Rials, respectively, which decreases as aversion to risk increases.

Volume 16, Issue 3 (Autumn 2016 2016)
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This study investigates the effects of rising food price on poverty and rate of vulnerability of the Iranian rural households. Applying the rural households’ data in 2012, first the compensated price elasticities are calculated by a Quadratic Almost Ideal demand system and then the effect of simultaneous increases in world food prices on welfare of rural households is studied in order to compute the vulnerability index and poverty variations. Results show that after rising food prices, the households’ welfare significantly gets worse, so that the corresponding compensated variation equals to 530.78 thousand Iranian Rials, which accounts for 6.28% of mean monthly income of the rural households. This limit defines the vulnerability index. Based on the computed poverty line, i.e. 2772.71 thousand Iranian Rials, over 49% of the households spend less for food. In other words, they suffer from food poverty. The results also show that nearly 14 percent (about 2764 households) has been added to the share of poor households because of rising food prices. The findings of this study can be used to design economic policies in order to protection of vulnerable groups, food security and social welfare.
 

Volume 27, Issue 1 (12-2025)
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Household-scale economies can be plausibly attributed to shared household public goods that make larger households better off at the same level of per capita resources. This paper examines the role of food and housing in the allocation of Iranian household expenditure, considering co-residence and economies of scale. Using a seemingly unrelated regression model for 2011 and 2021, we predict that, in the presence of shared food and housing, our method (solely) exploits preference information revealed by a cross-section of household observations while accounting for fully unobserved preference heterogeneity. Our findings indicate that scale economies changed significantly from 2011 to 2021 for expenditure categories of food and housing, but not all trends in scale economies are consistent with theoretical predictions. The results show that economies of scale are recognized to be higher in the housing group than in the food group in both periods. However, it has decreased within a decade and intensified due to the lack of appropriate government policy. In this context, the government's policies to encourage population growth have failed, and the population has encountered a low growth rate. Thus, providing support and welfare policy packages such as increasing income policy and household support insurance, as well as assistance in providing housing, are prioritized due to the economies of scale in housing.

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