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Socioeconomic Challenges in Education: Inequality, Risk, and Rational Investment Decisions [PDF]
SocioEconomic ChallengesThe persistence of socioeconomic challenges related to inequality and unequal access to education highlights the need for a deeper theoretical understanding of how households make educational investment decisions under unequal conditions.
Achintya Ray
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Liquidity when it matters : QE and Tobin’s q [PDF]
, 2011 When financial markets freeze in fear, borrowing costs for solvent governments may fall towards zero in a flight to quality – but credit-worthy private borrowers can be starved of external funding. In Kiyotaki and Moore (2008), where liquidity crisis is
Driffill, John, Miller, Marcus
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The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The U.S. Federal Reserve has undertaken several interest rate interventions in the past decade. This study explores the relationship between U.S. corn and soybean prices and Federal Reserve monetary policy interventions, in the short and long run.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov +4 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah +4 more
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Relationship Among R&D, Productivity, and Firm Exports: The Moderating Role of Credit Constraints
Studies in Business and EconomicsInnovative and productive firms are more likely to export and earn a great intensive margin. However, credit constraints may disconnect or distort the linkage between export determinants and export margins.
Zhang Dengjun +4 more
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Estimating the Effects of Credit Constraints on Productivity of Peruvian Agriculture
EconometricsThis paper proposes an estimator for the endogenous switching regression models with fixed effects. The decision to switch from one regime to the other may depend on unobserved factors, which would cause the state, such as being credit constrained, to be
Tiemen Woutersen +2 more
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Journal of Economic Structures, 2020 Interventions on climate change adaptation strategies, involve capital outlays, mostly constrained in supply in developing nations. This study analysed the impact of credit constraints on climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder rice ...
T. O. Ojo, L. J. S. Baiyegunhi
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Racial Disparities in Credit Constraints in the Great Recession: Evidence from the UK [PDF]
This paper investigates racial disparities in household credit constraints using U.K. survey data. We find a widening disparity in the proportion of racial minority households reporting they face credit constraints compared with non-minority households ...
John Gathergood
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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