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Output Quality, Productivity, and Demand: Evidence from the Chinese Steel Industry

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Unobserved objective output quality complicates the analysis of firm productivity and demand because higher‐quality products entail higher costs but offer greater consumption benefits. Using a panel of firms with output quality data, we decompose quantity‐based productivity into fundamental productivity and the costs of quality, and separate ...
Jing Li, Shengyu Li, Hongsong Zhang
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Short‐Term Profits for Long‐Term Value: Corporate ESG Dilemmas Under Earnings Pressure and Pathways to Governance

Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the negative effect of earnings pressure (EP) on corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and explores governance mechanisms that can address this problem. Drawing on behavioural agency theory and incorporating insights from resource allocation theory and agency theory, this paper identifies the key
Sha Tang, Abdullahi D. Ahmed, Chante Jian Ding   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in Site Occupancy of Marsh‐Breeding Frogs Are Associated With Surrounding Land Cover: Implications for Conservation Planning

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
To help ensure the growth and persistence of frog populations, we quantified changes in frog occurrence as a function of concurrent changes in land cover in the surrounding landscape of eight marsh‐breeding frog species, or groups of species. We used data from the Great Lakes Marsh Monitoring Program delivered by Birds Canada at 377 sites across four ...
Douglas C. Tozer, Simon T. Denomme‐Brown, Giuseppe E. Fiorino, Pauline E. Quesnelle, Greg P. Grabas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Getting on the grid: A field experiment on bottom‐up political pressure and access to essential public services

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Water is essential for human life, yet governments frequently leave vulnerable citizens to rely on informal channels for access. What can motivate governments to provide public services such as water to citizens trapped in informality?
Nikhar Gaikwad, Anjali Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver (CASL), the Canadian Network on Hepatitis C (CANHEPC) and the Canadian Association of Hepatology Nurses (CAHN) 2020 Abstracts. [PDF]

Can Liver J, 2020
europepmc   +1 more source

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Is Associated With an Increased Risk of End‐Stage Renal Disease: A Population‐Based Cohort Study

Alimentary Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
In a retrospective population‐based cohort study using the University of Manitoba IBD Epidemiology Database, persons with IBD have an increased risk of ESRD by nearly 50%, with CD showing greater risk than UC. Bowel surgery, allopurinol use and oral steroid therapy are important predictors, emphasising the necessity of careful renal monitoring in IBD ...
Onuma Sattayalertyanyong, Zoann Nugent, Bryce Barr, Keevin N. Bernstein, Charles N. Bernstein   +4 more
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Target Trial Emulation Using Cohort Studies: Estimating the Effect of Antihypertensive Medication Initiation on Incident Dementia. [PDF]

Epidemiology
Bennett EE, Bennett EE, Liu C, Stapp EK, Gianattasio KZ, Zimmerman SC, Wei J, Griswold ME, Fitzpatrick AL, Gottesman RF, Launer LJ, Windham BG, Levine DA, Fohner AE, Glymour MM, Power MC.   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Collective Wage Co‐ordination and the Costs of Job Displacement

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether a higher level of co‐ordination in collective wage bargaining affects the wage costs of job displacement. We use quasi‐exogenous variation in the timing of job loss due to mass layoffs spanning an institutional reform that introduced national ceilings to wage agreements negotiated at sectoral‐ and firm‐level—the
Sofía Fernández‐Guerrico, Ilan Tojerow   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Relative Importance of the Establishment in the Determination of Job Quality

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using linked employer‐employee data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey, we examine how much of the variation in job quality is accounted for by establishment‐level variation and the relative importance of the establishment compared with occupation and employee characteristics. We do so for pay, six dimensions of non‐pay job
Alex Bryson, John Forth, Francis Green
wiley   +1 more source

Denialist vs. warmist climate change conspiracy beliefs: Ideological roots, psychological correlates and environmental implications

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the current research, we use network analysis to examine the structure, ideological foundations and correlates of climate change conspiracy theories, distinguishing between denialist and warmist beliefs. Denialist beliefs, typically endorsed on the political right, claim that climate change is exaggerated, whereas warmist beliefs, more ...
Dylan de Gourville, Karen M. Douglas, Robbie M. Sutton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source