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Green Revolution Counterfactuals [PDF]
In this paper, we conduct two "counterfactual" simulations for the 30-year period 1970-2000-the first holding 1970 crop genetic improvements (CGI) constant and the second presuming the International Agricultural Research Center (IARC) system had not been
Evenson, Robert E. +3 more
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ABSTRACT The shift towards sustainable food production is essential to address the urgent dual challenges of climate change and population growth, with agricultural cooperatives playing a vital role in this transformation. However, many cooperatives struggle to deliver the expected value to their members.
Ismail Badraoui +4 more
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Intense development of Offshore Wind Farms (OWFs) has occurred in the North Sea with several more farms planned for the near future. These OWFs pose a threat to marine megafauna stressing the need to mitigate the impact of human activities.
Auriane Virgili +7 more
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Graphoids over Counterfactuals
Augmenting the graphoid axioms with three additional rules enables us to handle independencies among observed as well as counterfactual variables. The augmented set of axioms facilitates the derivation of testable implications and ignorability conditions
Pearl Judea
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Counterfactual Sensitivity and Robustness
Researchers frequently make parametric assumptions about the distribution of unobservables when formulating structural models. Such assumptions are typically motived by computational convenience rather than economic theory and are often untestable ...
Christensen, Timothy, Connault, Benjamin
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Consumers' Intention to Use Circular Business Models: A Configurational Analysis
ABSTRACT Circular business models (CBMs) integrate ecological sustainability and resource efficiency into core business strategies, but their success depends on consumers' intention to use. Grounded in expectancy–value theory, this study investigates how product‐related factors (perceived usefulness, convenience, value for money, and performance risk ...
Christof Falkenberg +4 more
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David Boonin on the Non-Identity Argument: Rejecting the Second Premise [PDF]
According to various “harm-based” approaches to the non-identity problem, an action that brings a particular child into existence can also harm that child, even if his or her life is worth living.
Gardner, Molly
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ABSTRACT Policy intervention can be a driver for industrial symbiosis (IS). However, given the wide variety of policy instruments available, policymakers should be guided in the policy design process to ensure that their intervention is effective and efficient. In this paper, we propose an agent‐based (AB) model intended to assess the effectiveness and
Melissa Mollica +2 more
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, which spanned much of 2020–2023 and beyond, daily case and death counts were recorded globally. In this study, we examined available mortality counts and associated case counts, with a focus on the estimation missing ...
Andrew B. Lawson +2 more
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