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Gender equity in sport from the perspective of European women athletes and sport managers, physical education teachers and sport coaches

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionFor years, gender inequality has conditioned women’s participation in sport, exposing them to difficult situations and numerous barriers to face.
Raquel Vaquero-Cristóbal, Adrián Mateo-Orcajada, Yeter Aytül Dağlı Ekmekçi̇, Antonino Pereira, Shirin Amin, Lourdes Meroño, Noelia González-Gálvez, Özgür Mülazımoğlu Ballı, Francisco Mendes, Orlando Mbah, Lucía Abenza-Cano, Alejandro Leiva-Arcas, Yeliz İlgar Doğan, Abel Figueiredo, Cristina María Ponce-Ramírez, Francisco Esparza-Ros, Mario Albaladejo-Saura   +16 more
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli, Simone Severini, Mauro Vigani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Inequality in Maternal Health Care Service Utilization: Implications for Sustainable Development Goals

Health Equity, 2019
Purpose: Globally, low-middle-income countries continue to account for almost all of the pregnancy-related mortalities that are largely preventable through adequate utilization of essential maternal health care services such as antenatal care (ANC) and ...
S. Yaya, B. Ghose
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The 1990s in Latin America: Another Decade of Persistent Inequality [PDF]

This paper argues that there is no country in Latin America where we can confidently say that income inequality improved during the 1990s. We document this fact for the 15 countries where comparable household surveys, covering most of the population, are
Marianne Hilgert, Miguel Székely
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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli, Francesco Pagliacci, Paola Gatto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

First-rotation growth and stand structure dynamics of tree species in organic and conventional short-rotation agroforestry systems

Heliyon, 2018
Short-rotation agroforestry systems can potentially maintain agricultural production and promote conservation of soil and biodiversity, especially if grown organically.
J.A. Huber, M. Matiu, K.-J. Hülsbergen
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Assessment of the Distributive Impact of National and External Trade Reforms in Brazil [PDF]

, 2009
This paper quantifies the distributional and poverty effects of national and external trade reform in Brazil using household survey data. We estimate the consumption and labor impact of the Mercosur trade reform following the methodology suggested by ...
Borraz, Fernando, Ferres, Daniel, Rossi, Máximo   +2 more
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The structure of Renyi entropic inequalities

, 2012
We investigate the universal inequalities relating the alpha-Renyi entropies of the marginals of a multi-partite quantum state. This is in analogy to the same question for the Shannon and von Neumann entropy (alpha=1) which are known to satisfy several ...
Linden, Noah, Mosonyi, Milán, Winter, Andreas   +2 more
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Inequality: A Hidden Cost of Market Power

Oxford review of economic policy, 2019
This paper explores the impact of competition on inequality by developing a new model to illustrate how higher profits from market power, and associated higher prices, could influence the distribution of wealth and income. We analyse data from eight OECD
Sean F. Ennis, Pedro Gonzaga, Chris Pike
semanticscholar   +1 more source