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Conceptual evolution and methodological challenges of value-added in educational assessment: A scoping review 1971–2024

open access: yesEnsaio
Value-added (VA) models are widely used to evaluate educational effectiveness, yet their conceptual and methodological development remains insufficiently systematized.
Kelly Alice Barbosa Macêdo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Farmers' Preferences for Gene Editing Crops and Influencing Factors

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gene editing (GE) is gaining momentum worldwide, but limited data on UK farmers' preferences hinders our understanding of its potential impact amid deregulation debates. Based on a survey of 200 English arable farmers, we employ a Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logit regressions to investigate current preferences for GE crops.
Bertolozzi‐Caredio Daniele   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exotic statistical physics: Applications to biology, medicine, and economics

open access: yesPhysica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2000
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openaire   +2 more sources

Differentiated Impacts of EU Rural Development Measures: A Finite Mixture Evaluation of Italian Olive Farms

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between participation in the EU Rural Development Program and the economic performance of Italian olive farms using a finite‐mixture model with inverse‐probability‐weighted regression adjustment. Based on 2010–2022 FADN panel data, it estimates heterogeneous treatment effects while correcting for selection ...
Francesco Caracciolo, Marilena Furno
wiley   +1 more source

A Novel Graph-Based Innovative Trend Analysis Technique for Studying the Crop Trends in Kerala, India

open access: yesAgriEngineering
This study introduces a novel graph-based innovative trend analysis (GBITA) technique for detecting trends in time series data, thus fundamentally challenging conventional assumptions in trend assessment.
Chalissery Mincy Thomas, Archana Nair
doaj   +1 more source

Voluntary Collective Action to Address Growing Agricultural Challenges in Two Countries: Experimental Insights and Commonalities

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted two framed field economic experiments with citrus farmers in Florida, United States and soybean farmers in Argentina to investigate their willingness to coordinate pest and weed management efforts. Despite the contrast between these two agricultural contexts, we find striking behavioral commonalities.
Ariel Singerman, Sergio H. Lence
wiley   +1 more source

Essays on the Application of Statistical Learning in Empirical Economic Research

open access: yes, 2022
This thesis was written between June 2020 and May 2022 as external Ph.D. candidate at the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics at the Justus Liebig University Giessen. At the time of writing, the author was employed as researcher at ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in the department of Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics.
Dörr, Julian Oliver   +1 more
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Low Participation and Risk Reduction Potential of Supplemental Crop Insurance in the United States

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Federally subsidized crop insurance is a cornerstone of U.S. farm risk management, yet policies with the greatest share of participation only trigger indemnities after losses exceed 15%. Supplemental insurance was introduced to cover part of this deductible, but participation remains largely unchanged.
Francis Tsiboe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metamorphic Testing for Semantic Invariance in Large Language Models

open access: yesIEEE Access
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in mathematical and scientific reasoning tasks, yet standard benchmark evaluations fail to capture the stability of these reasoning processes under semantically equivalent input ...
J. De Curto, I. De Zarza
doaj   +1 more source

Delaying the Inevitable? U.S. Screwworm Closures and Feeder Cattle Market Dynamics

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biosecurity trade restrictions are commonly framed as preventive measures, yet in many settings they function primarily as policies of delay: they impose immediate market costs while only postponing the arrival of biological risks. This paper evaluates that intertemporal tradeoff using the 2024–2025 US suspension of live cattle imports from ...
Shelby Sumner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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