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Default Effect in ESG Investment: When a Recommendation Goes a Long Way

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Individual investors display a positive attitude toward ESG investments but typically fail to act upon it. We report results from a preregistered online experiment testing a default option on 1050 US investors examining the mechanisms driving the effectiveness of default options in promoting ESG investments.
Sai Sravanthi Ramadugula, R. Prasantha Kumar, Luc Meunier   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Educational constraints on marital sorting and income mobility.

PLoS ONE
This paper examines the effect of educational assortative mating on overall income mobility in terms of both inter- and intragenerational mobility. In recent years, educational assortative mating has become a trend in China, and this marital sorting ...
Nan Gao
doaj   +1 more source

Assortative mating between European corn borer pheromone races: beyond assortative meeting. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2007
BACKGROUND: Sex pheromone communication systems may be a major force driving moth speciation by causing behavioral reproductive isolation via assortative meeting of conspecific individuals. The 'E' and 'Z' pheromone races of the European corn borer (ECB)
Laurent Pélozuelo, Serge Meusnier, Philippe Audiot, Denis Bourguet, Sergine Ponsard   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Comprehensive Review on Nutrition, Phytochemistry, Pharmacology and Food Application Perspectives of Bioactive Rich Superfruits

Future Postharvest and Food, EarlyView.
The review critically evaluated and compared the selected superfruit phytochemistry, their bioactive composition and the key health benefits majorly emphasizing the antioxidant potential. It has highlighted the translational challenges in formulating functional foods by addressing the issues related to delivery system, bioavailability mechanism and the
Sharath Kumar Nagaraja, Javid Iqbal Mir, Mahendra Kumar Verma, Aamir Hussain Dar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assortative mating and differential male mating success in an ash hybrid zone population

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2006
Background The structure and evolution of hybrid zones depend mainly on the relative importance of dispersal and local adaptation, and on the strength of assortative mating.
Frascaria-Lacoste Nathalie, Fernández-Manjarrés Juan F, Austerlitz Frédéric, Klein Etienne K, Gérard Pierre R   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Further Findings on the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using 43,817 parent–child pairs from 23 waves of the HILDA Survey, I study the intergenerational transmission of alcohol use within a rational model of trait transmission. Transmission is predominantly same‐sex: the mother–daughter elasticity is 0.10 and the father–son elasticity is 0.09; there is no father–daughter effect.
Sergey Alexeev
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer perceptions of farmers market performance: A comparative analysis across states and age groups

Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, EarlyView.
Abstract The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service has invested in direct‐to‐consumer initiatives to expand local food consumption and enhance farmers market opportunities. To evaluate the effectiveness of these efforts, this study employs a sample‐selected ordered probit model to analyze consumer perceptions of farmers market performance across four ...
Azita Varziri, Timothy A. Woods, Shuoli Zhao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Finding a Mate With No Social Skills

, 2015
Sexual reproductive behavior has a necessary social coordination component as willing and capable partners must both be in the right place at the right time.
Carter C., Inada Y., Levenshtein V. I., Marriott C., Penrose M., Weis A.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Interplay between fecundity, sexual and growth selection on the spring phenology of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.).

Peer Community Journal
Background: Plant phenological traits such as the timing of budburst or flowering can evolve on ecological timescales through response to fecundity and viability selection.
Oddou-Muratorio, Sylvie, Bontemps, Aurore, Gauzere, Julie, Klein, Etienne K   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Similarity and substitution: Using pile sorting methods to explore economic behavior

Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the common intuition that similar products are stronger demand substitutes, this study shows a more nuanced relationship between perceived similarity and utility substitution. Using pile sorting, a method where items are sorted into groups according to their similarity, we conduct large‐scale consumer surveys on purchasing 21 foods for
Jayson L. Lusk, Vincenzina Caputo, Amelia Ahles   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source