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The Endogeneity of the Natural Rate of Growth – an Empirical Study for Latin-American Countries [PDF]

open access: yes
The aim of this paper is to analyse the sensitivity of the natural rate of growth to the actual rate of growth for a sample of eleven Latin-American countries, assuming the natural rate to be determined endogenously by changes in the actual rate of ...
Lena Vogel
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The causal effect of agricultural landscape simplification on Germany's grasslands during a compound drought and heatwave in 2018

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Preserving ecosystem services, along with economic and environmental benefits, will require future landscape policies to identify and incorporate relevant landscape features. In this paper, we investigate the causal effect of agricultural landscape simplification on drought‐related grassland damages.
Marco Ferro   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Regional Location and Territorial Characteristics on Profitability in the Spanish Pig Farming Industry

open access: yesAgriculture
This work aimed to identify the locational, territorial and financial characteristics that impact the profitability of companies in the Spanish pig sector. The data were extracted from the SABI database, which contains economic and financial information.
Alba Cardil   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Information framing and the impact of nutrition label serving size change

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract The framing of information can significantly influence how consumers interpret and respond to it. This paper investigates how the change in serving sizes in Nutrition Facts Panel (NFP) affects consumer choices for carbonated soft drinks (CSD). We first estimate a reduced form difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model to document causal effects on ...
Yuxiang Zhang, Yizao Liu, Linlin Fan
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Support Allocation: Mental Health and Patterns of Homelessness Support Utilisation

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Homelessness support agencies face substantial puzzles in allocating scarce resources: who gets access and who stays on the waitlist? This paper examines the influence of mental illness on the patterns of consuming non‐clinical homelessness support by persons experiencing homelessness and at risk.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley
wiley   +1 more source

Ownership structure and firm performance: Evidence from South African firms on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange

open access: yesActa Commercii
Orientation: This study investigates the impact of ownership structure on the performance of South African firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), focusing on ownership categories such as institutional, foreign, managerial, government and ...
Delane D. Naidu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of extended insurance coverage on survival outcomes among patients with metastatic colorectal cancer in Taiwan

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims Predetermined treatment duration limits (PTDLs) are often used by Taiwan's National Health Insurance Administration to contain healthcare costs, but they may compromise patient outcomes. Therefore, we studied Taiwan's 2017 extension of the bevacizumab PTDL from 24 to 36 weeks in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) to evaluate whether prolonged ...
Wei‐Ming Huang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic status, parenting factors and academic achievement among Chinese adolescents aged 12–13: How do they relate?

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Extensive research has shown that students from higher socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds generally outperform their lower SES peers. Nevertheless, some low SES students succeed, albeit it ‘against the odds.’ Coleman's (1988) theory of social capital in the family suggests that financial capital, human capital and social capital all affect
Fang Xu, Steve Strand
wiley   +1 more source

School system evaluation by value-added analysis under endogeneity [PDF]

open access: yes
Value-added analysis is a common tool in analysing school performances. In this paper, we analyse the SIMCE panel data which provides individual scores of about 200,000 students in Chile, and whose aim is to rank schools according to their educational ...
SAN MARTIN, Ernesto   +2 more
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Causality and endogeneity: Problems and solutions

open access: yes, 2014
Most leadership and management researchers ignore one key design and estimation problem rendering parameter estimates uninterpretable: Endogeneity. We discuss the problem of endogeneity in depth and explain conditions that engender it using examples ...
Jacquart, P.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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