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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A generalised dynamic factor model for the Belgian economy - Useful business cycle indicators and GDP growth forecasts [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper aims to extract the common variation in a data set of 509 conjunctural series as an indication of the Belgian business cycle. The data set contains information on business and consumer surveys of Belgium and its neighbouring countries ...
Christophe Van Nieuwenhuyze
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Giving and receiving help in three contexts as predictors of alcohol outcomes in a longitudinal study of sober living house residents

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Although peer support is central to the social model approach emphasized in sober living houses (SLHs), no longitudinal studies have examined helping among SLH residents. This longitudinal study examined benefits of helping in three contexts among SLH residents. Data were from 205 participants entering 28 SLHs across 2021–2023. Interviews were
Sarah E. Zemore   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does the perceived utility of rubrics boost speaker confidence? A study in business organization courses

open access: yesJournal of Management and Business Education
In a real academic context, taking the classroom as a reference, this research analyzes the utility that students on two university degree programs give to a rubric for preparing oral presentations.
Domingo Verano-Tacoronte   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Constraints on credit, consumer behaviour and the dynamics of wealth [PDF]

open access: yes
This note develops a simple macro model where the pattern of wealth accumulation is determined by a credit multiplier and by the way households react to short run fluctuations.
Gomes, Orlando
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The international dimension of confidence shocks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Building on Beaudry, Nam and Wang (2011) - hereafter BNW -, we use survey data on consumer sentiment in order to identify the causal effects of confidence shocks on real economic activity in a selection of advanced economies.
Dées, Stéphane, Güntner, Jochen
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“Will you be there for me?” Social support from family and friends during cold case sexual assault prosecutions

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract If sexual assault survivors report the assault to the criminal legal system, they often need informal support from family and friends throughout the long and frequently retraumatizing process of investigation and prosecution. This study is part of a long‐term community‐based participatory action research project in a predominately Black ...
Rebecca Campbell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Business Investment Confidence in Culture-Aligned Indigenous Economies in Remote Australian Communities: A Business Support Framework to Better Inform Government Programs

open access: yesInternational Indigenous Policy Journal, 2015
There is significant evidence that culture-aligned economies are more effective in engaging remote-living Indigenous Australians in work long-term. Despite this evidence, governments remain resistant to investing substantially in these economies, with ...
Ann E. Fleming
doaj  

Examining pathways by which socioeconomic instability in adolescence influence sexual health during emerging adulthood in an agricultural setting in California

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the longitudinal impact of socioeconomic instability on teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnosis among adolescents and young adults (AYA) living in an agricultural region and examines pathways including supportive family and social structures, decision making autonomy in romantic relationships ...
Marie C. D. Stoner   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

BUSINESS SURVEY LIQUIDITY MEASURE AS A LEADING INDICATOR OF CROATIAN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION

open access: yesCroatian Operational Research Review, 2012
Business survey liquidity measure is one of the modifications of the uniform EU business survey methodology applied in Croatia. Consequent liquidity problem have been, since socialist times, one of the major problem for Croatia's business.
Mirjana Čižmešija   +1 more
doaj  

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