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Contract Farming and Children's Education: Evidence From Maize Producers in Ghana
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming (CF) has continued to proliferate in the small farm sector of developing countries. While its effects on smallholders across welfare outcomes such as income and food security have been well documented, there are growing concerns about its broader social implications especially on children.
Francis E. Ndip +2 more
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ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between financial inclusion, institutional quality, and female labor force participation in sub‐Saharan Africa over the period 1990–2023. Using panel data for 43 countries and employing OLS, FGLS, and dynamic GMM estimators, the analysis examines whether access to financial institutions and financial markets ...
Joshua Chukwuma Onwe +3 more
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Assessing the Predictive Power of Labor-Market Indicators of Inflation [PDF]
This paper examines two different measures of wages as predicators of prices in a vector error-correction framework using quarterly data for the U.S. for the period from 1947.Q1 through 2008.Q1. Based on cointegration and a series of exogeneity tests, it
Farrokh Nourzad
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Local regulatory anticipation and GHG emissions
Abstract Research Summary Regulatory anticipation is a nonmarket response whereby firms, foreseeing future penalties, adjust their behavior when peers are targeted by regulators. Prior research defines peers using broad jurisdictional boundaries. Instead, I argue that regulatory anticipation may emerge locally, driven by two channels: proximity to peer
Leandro Nardi
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The value of structural information in the VAR model [PDF]
Economic policy decisions are often informed by empirical economic analysis. While the decision-maker is usually only interested in good estimates of outcomes, the analyst is interested in estimating the model.
Dijk, H.K. van, Strachan, R.W.
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Artificial intelligence adoption and the demand for managerial expertise
Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how firms' adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) relates to the demand for managers and managerial skills. Using a skills‐based measure of AI adoption derived from Lightcast job postings, we show that firms with greater AI adoption post more managerial vacancies and a higher share of such vacancies than ...
Liudmila Alekseeva +3 more
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Nonlinear estimators with integrated regressors but without exogeneity [PDF]
This paper analyzes nonlinear cointegrating regressions as have been recently analyzed in a paper by Park and Phillips in Econometrica. I analyze the consequences of removing Park and Phillips' exogeneity assumption, which for the special case of a ...
Robert de Jong
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Forgoing Nuclear: Nuclear Power Plant Closures and Carbon Emissions in the United States
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of nuclear power plant decommissioning on electricity generation and carbon emissions in the United States. Using data on nuclear reactor closures in the United States between 1993 and 2022 and data on state‐level carbon emissions and electricity generation from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), this ...
Luke Petach
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Modeling the supply and demand for tourism: a fully identified VECM approach [PDF]
Cointegration analysis has gradually appeared in the empirical tourism literature. However, the focus has been exclusively on the demand side, neglecting potentially-important supply-side influences and risking endogeneity bias.
Allison Zhou, Byron Gangnes, Carl Bonham
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[Endogenous and exogenous estrogens].
Before menopause, women are protected from the risk of hypertension and atherosclerosis by endogenous estrogens. Estrogens have a vasoprotective role, while progesterone seems to have a neutral effect. Exogenous estrogens used in menopausal treatment have vascular effects.
Bejan-Angoulvant, Theodora +1 more
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