Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment
ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
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Serum proteomics of adults with acute liver failure provides mechanistic insights and attractive prognostic biomarkers. [PDF]
Remih K +21 more
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ABSTRACT The present paper provides an overall framework to afford the problem of non‐representativeness and non‐random selectivity arising from online job ads data, using Generalized sample selection models and Eurostat benchmark data. We jointly model the outcome intensity (number of online job ads in observed profiles, whose levels are defined by ...
Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio +1 more
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Anticipating the downturn: business cycle forecasting for veterinary practice strategy in the United States. [PDF]
Neill CL, Salois M, McKay C.
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The Optimal Bribe: Price Versus Quantity Competition in Oligopolies
ABSTRACT We analyze an entry deterrence model between an incumbent firm and a potential entrant, where the incumbent strategically offers bribes to local officials to raise entry barriers. Our focus is a three‐stage Bertrand game under incomplete information in a differentiated goods market.
Vishavdeep Sharma +1 more
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No effect of additional education on long-term brain structure, a preregistered natural experiment in thousands of individuals. [PDF]
Judd N, Kievit R.
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Bayesian Inference for Joint Estimation Models Using Copulas to Handle Endogenous Regressors
ABSTRACT This study proposes a Bayesian approach for finite‐sample inference of the Gaussian copula endogeneity correction. Extant studies use frequentist inference, build on a priori computed estimates of marginal distributions of explanatory variables, and use bootstrapping to obtain standard errors. The proposed Bayesian approach facilitates precise
Rouven E. Haschka
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Ecological and Anthropogenic Drivers of Hairtail Catch Distribution: A Spatial Analysis of the Southern Coastal Waters of South Korea. [PDF]
Nam J +5 more
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Disagreement About Fiscal Policy
ABSTRACT Politicians disagree about fiscal policy. This disagreement should have economic effects beyond the effects of government spending and taxation. We use the full set of speeches in the German Bundestag since 1960 and apply state‐of‐the art natural language processing techniques to construct two series of fiscal disagreement starting in 1970 ...
Albina Latifi +3 more
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