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Constructing and Validating New County‐Level Cultural Capital Indices for Applied Policy Analysis: Evidence From SNAP Take‐Up

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Innovation in Educational and Societal Transformation: The MacArthur Foundation, Jesuit Business Schools, and the World [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
On June 2, 2016, the MacArthur Foundation announced a competition awarding $100 million to a single project that would contribute toward solving a significant societal problem.
STONER, JAMES A. F.; Gabelli School of Business Fordham University New York, New York, U.S.A.
core   +1 more source

Effectiveness of the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Rainfall Index (PRF‐RI) Program: Interval Selections With Uniform Premium Subsidy Rates

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines interval selection in the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Rainfall Index (PRF‐RI) program and evaluates how uniform premium subsidy rates affect optimal interval selections. Using South Dakota as a case study, we show a trend of increasing selection of nonproduction intervals from 2013 to 2024, raising concerns about program
Whoi Cho, Matthew Diersen
wiley   +1 more source

Business School Partnerships for Globalization [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Teaching in International Business, 2013
International partnerships are an essential tool to enable business schools to internationalize their activities. They can lead to improved research, better more internationally relevant teaching, provide staff with an international perspective, and help prepare students for careers in global business.
Dixon, R., Slanickova, D., Warwick, P.
openaire   +3 more sources

Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmer business schools

open access: yes, 2014
Farmer business schools help enhance farmer capacity to participate in and benefit from agricultural market chains. It builds on the group-based experiential learning mode of farmer field schools, while shifting from a production- to a marketing-oriented
Gonsalves, Julian Francis
core   +1 more source

Do business schools encourage entrepreneurship? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Entrepreneurship education has grown substantially over the past 25 years as governments, students, parents and alumni push for the inclusion of the subject area into mainstream university education. To date entrepreneurship programs have been housed for
Mombourquette, Peter
core   +1 more source

S’orienter en école de commerce : goût de l’utile ou choix du raisonnable ?

open access: yesSociologies, 2012
This article questions higher education choices through the specific case of French business school students. Business schools represent the sector of the French higher education system that have known the fastest growth since the 1980s.
Marianne Blanchard
doaj  

Businessing Around Comprehensive Schooling

open access: yes, 2023
AbstractThe idea of education as a commodity, particularly as a field of export, has gradually taken hold in Finland creating a base for government collaboration with edu-business. In that logic comprehensive schooling for citizens in a small nation like Finland is positioned as a tool for a platform economy and to make profit within a sector of ...
Kiesi Iida-Leena   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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