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Selection into Mixed Marriages: Evidence from North Carolina, 1894-1906 [PDF]
, 2015 Using a novel dataset from agricultural censuses and geological sources, I examine the selec- tion into mixed marriages between whites and Cherokee Indians in North Carolina during the late nineteenth century.
Gregg, Matthew T.
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The Gender Wealth Gap and the Role of Private Pension Wealth in Great Britain
Research on gender wealth gaps is hampered by the fact that most surveys gather information on wealth at the household or family level rather than for individuals. It is also limited in coverage, often not including pension wealth. Here we exploit the rich data on individual wealth including pension wealth obtained by the British Wealth and Assets ...
Juan C. Palomino, Brian Nolan
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Investor Perception of ESG in Earnings Calls
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how the communicator's role and the framing of ESG statements affect investor capital allocation in the context of earnings calls. Based on a virtual asset market experiment, the analysis identifies that the assurance and reinforcement of ESG messages have a positive effect of up to 8% on capital allocation, with especially
Felix Bachner
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ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
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Correction: What explains the gender gap in wealth? Evidence from administrative data [PDF]
Review of Economics of the Household, 2021 Jaanika Meriküll +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between mergers and acquisitions (M&A), board characteristics, and ESG performance in BRICS companies, considering the moderating role of sectoral sensitivity. The study analyzes 11,402 observations from 2293 BRICS companies, employing Two‐Stage Least Squares (2SLS) to address endogeneity and logistic ...
Geovane Camilo dos Santos +2 more
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Fisheries and Aquaculture and Their Potential Roles in Development: An Assessment of the Current Evidence [PDF]
, 2013 Commissioned by the International Sustainability Unity, this report investigates a number of innovative solutions that have been developed to deal with five key challenges that are impeding progress in achieving sustainable fisheries: overcapacity ...
Carl Harris +6 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Given the growing pressure on companies to achieve high ESG performance while minimising ESG controversies, this study investigates how ESG performance and ESG controversies jointly affect firm financial performance (measured as ROA and ROE), considering the effect of the presence of women directors and of operating in controversial versus non‐
Alice Alosi, Emilia Filippi
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Development of a Scale to Evaluate Virtual Learning Environment Satisfactionn
International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2018 Recent advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) have resulted in improvements in the delivery of education. It is a well-known fact thatlearning technologies currently have a pivotal role in education.
Nazire Burcin Hamutoglu +3 more
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The Partner Pay Gap – Associations between Spouses’ Relative Earnings and Life Satisfaction among Couples in the UK. ESRI WP642, November 2019 [PDF]
, 2019 Despite women’s recent gains in education and employment, husbands still tend to out-earn their wives. This article examines the relationship between the partner pay gap, i.e.
Gash, Vanessa, Plagnol, Anke C.
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