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Recently, applied sciences, including longitudinal and clustered studies in biomedicine require the analysis of ultra-high dimensional linear mixed effects models where we need to select important fixed effect variables from a vast pool of available ...
Ghosh, Abhik, Thoresen, Magne
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De Facto Judicial Independence and Physical Integrity Rights [PDF]
Economists, political scientists, and legal scholars have argued that independent judiciaries have an important role to play in promoting economic development and protecting property rights.
Abouharb, MR, Moyer, LP, Schmidt, M
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MARKET PARTICIPATION INTENSITY EFFECT ON PRODUCTIVITY OF SMALLHOLDER COWPEA FARMERS: EVIDENCE FROM THE NORTHERN REGION OF GHANA [PDF]
This paper explored the effect of market participation intensity on productivity of smallholder cowpea producers in the Northern Region of Ghana. A cross-sectional primary data of 183 cowpea producers was sampled from three communities in each of four ...
Ebenezer KONDO
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Climate change is negatively affecting agricultural production in the Sahel region. Climate-Smart Agricultural Technologies (CSATs) are disseminated to reduce these negative effects, and particularly those on resource-poor farm households.
Bola Amoke Awotide +9 more
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Succession Decisions in U.S. Family Farm Businesses
Farm transfer or succession by the "next generation" holds a place of central importance in the determination of industry structure and total number of farmers and has profound implications for farm families.
Ashok K. Mishra +2 more
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Trivariate Copula for Modeling Barriers Crash Severity, Accounting for Policy Endogeneity
Studies have been implemented in the literature to enhance the safety of traffic barriers by identification of the contributory factors to those crashes. However, almost all those past studies are subject to potential pitfalls of just answering the cause-
Mahdi Rezapour, Khaled Ksaibati
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The Effect of Women’s Bargaining Power on Child Nutrition in Rural Senegal [PDF]
We examine how women’s bargaining power affects child nutritional status using data from rural Senegal. In order to correct for the potential endogeneity of women’s bargaining power we use information on a mother’s ethnicity relative to that of the ...
Lépine, Aurélia, Strobl, Eric
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Quantifying the Endogeneity in Online Donations
Charitable crowdfunding provides a new channel for people and families suffering from unforeseen events, such as accidents, severe illness, and so on, to seek help from the public. Thus, finding the key determinants which drive the fundraising process of
Peng Wang +3 more
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INST Institutional Ownership and Firm Value: A Study on the Bist Manufacturing Index
The aim of this research is to test the relation between institutional ownership and firm value. To accomplish this aim, data from 104 firms listed in the BIST (i.e. Borsa Istanbul) industrial index between 2006 and 2018 have been used.
Mesut Doğan
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This paper presents an extension to the Oaxaca−Blinder decomposition with continuous groups using a semiparametric approach known as varying coefficients model.
Fernando Rios-Avila
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