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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability labels can help support consumers select more socially and environmentally friendly options, thereby enhancing returns for conscientious producers and promoting the transition to a more sustainable food system. However, consumer confusion regarding labels' meaning undermines their effectiveness.
Monika Hartmann +4 more
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Working on heterogeneous human capital* [PDF]
At the beginning of the nineteen-eighties, the Dutch economy was in a poor state.Successive oil crises had hit the industrial sector particularly hard. This promptedgovernment to set up an authoritative committee, led by former Shell presidentWagner. The
Heijke Hans
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Consumer Preferences for Craft Beer: The Interplay of Localness and Advertising Language
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the influence of the language of the label, origin of production, and origin of brewing ingredients on Croatian consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for organic craft beer. Employing an online survey and a choice experiment among 223 Croatian alcohol consumers, we find that while there's a willingness to pay a ...
Marija Cerjak +2 more
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Do school facilities matter? : the case of the Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES) [PDF]
Since its creation in 1991, the Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES) has spent about US$570 million funding micro-projects throughout Peru. Many of these projects have involved building and renovating school facilities.
Paxson, Christina, Schady, Norbert
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate variability is affecting the productivity, profitability, and resilience of smallholder dairy producers in developing countries. The adoption of climate‐smart (CS) dairy practices has been promoted to mitigate these negative effects. However, while interest in dairy CS practices is growing, empirical evidence on their adoption patterns
Mercy Mburu +4 more
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CREATING THE FUTURE KNOWLEDGE WORKER [PDF]
The article aims to determine if the economic and business higher education institutions contributes to the creation of the future knowledge worker that organizations need in the new economy.
Ramona-Diana LEON
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Increasing the effectiveness of financial education in the workplace [PDF]
, 2008 effectiveness of financial education and saving programs ” (University of Chicago Press), and the article “Household saving behavior: The role of financial literacy, information and financial education programs, ” written for the conference and ...
Lusardi, Annamaria
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the determinants of generative AI (GenAI) knowledge and usage among agricultural extension professionals. Drawing on survey data from agricultural extension personnel in Tennessee, we employ regression analyses and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) for topic modeling of open‐ended responses to study the knowledge and usage ...
Abdelaziz Lawani +3 more
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Efficiency and equity in social spending : how and why governments misbehave [PDF]
A hot issue in development economics is how much to rely on user charges and private organizations to provide such social services as health and education.
Birdsall, Nancy, James, Estelle
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