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Water, Sanitation and Health: The World Bank's Financing of Sustainable Development Goal 6
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The World Bank has an explicit commitment to financing projects aimed at ensuring access to drinking water and sanitation (SDG 6), given their implications for countries' development. The objective of this study is to analyse its performance over the past decades, in order to understand the evolution of the allocated amount and the ...
Cristina Martínez‐Gómez +2 more
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Ethnic integration and the value of innovation
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Organizations have become increasingly ethnically diverse, and this diversity often brings together distinct technological competencies. Understanding how firms can leverage such diversity to produce valuable innovations therefore becomes essential.
Stefano Breschi +2 more
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Small, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scanning transmission x‐ray microscopy (STXM) is a nanoscale imaging technique that can utilize several powerful contrast mechanisms for the quantitative mapping of chemical and physical materials properties. Spatial resolutions down to 7 nm at the soft x‐ray energy range have been demonstrated.
Simone Finizio +6 more
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The Earnings Premium to a Bachelor's Degree in Australia
Australian Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction The income returns to a bachelor's degree in Australia declined in the period from 2001 to 2016. We attempt to uncover the drivers of this decline. Methods Our analysis investigates the income premium to a bachelor's degree through two lenses: (1) the effects of the demand for and supply of skill in the economy and (2) the effect ...
Michael Coelli, Jeff Borland
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Forces Behind South Australia's Unusual Structural Changes Since 1840
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The agricultural sector's share of GDP in growing economies typically declines but, for a century from the early 1850s, Australia's did not. That trend is most evident for the former colony and now State of South Australia (SA). Moreover, that share for SA has been almost flat since 1980 as well, along with the agricultural sector's share of ...
Kym Anderson
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Cultural and Human Capital Signals in Hiring—A Factorial Survey Experiment Across Contexts
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When evaluating candidates, hiring agents may draw on signals of human as well as cultural capital. While these processes have been considered separately, an open question is how the two types of signals interact. As signals of social class, cultural capital signals relate to human capital as they evoke stereotypes about competence, polish ...
Luisa Burchartz +2 more
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Economic Record, EarlyView.This study examines the effects of a public subsidy withdrawal on provider behaviour, focusing on General Practitioners (GPs) in Australia. Specifically, it explores changes in GP billing practices following the removal of an item on the Medicare Benefits Schedule that subsidises joint injections (intra‐articular steroids).
Olukorede Abiona +4 more
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Learning about unprecedented events: Agent-based modelling and the stock market impact of COVID-19. [PDF]
Financ Res Lett, 2023 Bazzana D, Colturato M, Savona R.
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Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi
Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina +4 more
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Automating Food Production: Evidence From the Dutch Food Industry
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Automation technology has the potential to replace a significant part of the labour force in the food industry. With data from 2002 to 2023, I investigate the causal treatment effects of the adoption of automation technology in the Dutch food industry. Automation technology in the food industry is used in a variety of tasks, such as logistics,
Jan‐Philip R. Uhlemann
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