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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generating Counterfactual Explanations with Natural Language

, 2018
Natural language explanations of deep neural network decisions provide an intuitive way for a AI agent to articulate a reasoning process. Current textual explanations learn to discuss class discriminative features in an image. However, it is also helpful
Akata, Zeynep, Darrell, Trevor, Hendricks, Lisa Anne, Hu, Ronghang   +3 more
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Counterfactual Worlds

Journal of Philosophical Logic
Abstract This paper extends Kit Fine’s (2012a, 2012b, 2017a, 2017b, 2017c) truthmaker framework to provide a novel task semantics for tensed counterfactual conditionals. Instead of taking possible worlds to be primitive elements in a model, possible worlds will be defined in terms of states, parthood, tasks, and times where the task relation ...
openaire   +1 more source

How does the Kids SIPsmartER program impact the sugar‐sweetened beverage intake of students: An investigation beyond total treatment effect in randomized controlled trial

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study develops and empirically estimates a structural framework to decompose the causal pathways of multilevel behavioral interventions targeting adolescent health behaviors. We apply this framework to the Kids SIPsmartER (KSS) program, a 6‐month, school‐based intervention evaluated through a clustered randomized controlled trial in rural
Naveen Abedin, Wen You, Annie Reid, Kathleen Porter, Brittany Kirkpatrick, Jamie Zoellner   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deterministic teleportation and universal computation without particle exchange

Journal of Physics Communications
Teleportation is a cornerstone of quantum technologies, and has played a key role in the development of quantum information theory. Pushing the limits of teleportation is therefore of particular importance.
Hatim Salih, Jonte R Hance, Will McCutcheon, Terry Rudolph, John Rarity   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Moving from biodiversity offsets to a target‐based approach for ecological compensation

Conservation Letters, 2020
Loss of habitats or ecosystems arising from development projects (e.g., infrastructure, resource extraction, urban expansion) are frequently addressed through biodiversity offsetting. As currently implemented, offsetting typically requires an outcome of “
Jeremy S. Simmonds, Laura J. Sonter, James E.M. Watson, Leon Bennun, Hugo M. Costa, Guy Dutson, Stephen Edwards, Hedley Grantham, Victoria F. Griffiths, Julia P.G. Jones, Joseph Kiesecker, Hugh P. Possingham, Philippe Puydarrieux, Fabien Quétier, Helga Rainer, Hugo Rainey, Dilys Roe, Conrad E. Savy, Mathieu Souquet, Kerry ten Kate, Ray Victurine, Amrei vonHase, Martine Maron   +22 more
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Counterfactual Causality from First Principles?

, 2017
In this position paper we discuss three main shortcomings of existing approaches to counterfactual causality from the computer science perspective, and sketch lines of work to try and overcome these issues: (1) causality definitions should be driven by a
Gössler, Gregor, Sokolsky, Oleg, Stefani, Jean-Bernard   +2 more
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Climate change and perennial crop production: Evidence of yield impact and adaptation in California

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Perennial crops are economically important. They contribute to food security, providing essential nutrients that are often lacking in annual crops, and provide additional environmental benefits compared with annual crops. Despite their importance, empirical research on the impacts of climate change and adaptation on perennial crops remains ...
Yuanyuan Wen, Wei Zhang, Julian M. Alston   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Counterfactual Thinking and Thought Experiments [PDF]

, 2014
As part of Timothy Williamson’s inquiry into how we gain knowledge from thought experiments he submits various ways of representing the argument underlying Gettier cases in modal and counterfactual terms.
Turkewitz, Josh
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The Herfindahl neutral point: A firm‐level threshold for managing market concentration with evidence from US hog packing

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper derives a firm‐level threshold, the Herfindahl Neutral Point, from the standard concentration index used in merger review. At this threshold, a marginal expansion leaves the index unchanged. Firms below the threshold reduce concentration when they expand; firms above it increase concentration.
Andrew J. Keller, Krishna P. Paudel
wiley   +1 more source