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Artificial Intelligence Is Stereotypically Linked More with Socially Dominant Groups in Natural Language

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
AI is not seen through an unbiased lens. People tend to stereotype AI as competent and link it with socially advantaged groups—such as men, the wealthy, the young, and prestigious occupations—raising concerns that such perceptions may deepen existing social divides rather than bridge them.
Zixi Wang, Haodong Xia, Han Wu Shuang Bao, Yiming Jing, Ruolei Gu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

Brighter Futures: Tackling the College Completion Challenge [PDF]

, 2013
The United States' single greatest collective investment in human capital -- and in its future generations -- is public education. Yet today that investment is generating very poor returns for low-income students.Members of the lowest-income U.S ...
Allan Ludgate, Frances Messano, Owen Stearns   +2 more
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Beyond subsistence? The role of rural cooperatives in driving smallholder commercialization in Ethiopia

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract The transition from subsistence to market‐oriented agriculture holds the potential to boost rural economic progress and improve the well‐being of the rural poor in developing countries. Despite this potential, there is limited understanding of the key drivers for smallholder commercialization. In this study, we utilize comprehensive three‐wave
Abebayehu Girma Geffersa, Md. Monirul Islam   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting social welfare in Madrid neighbourhoods using machine learning

Regional Studies, Regional Science
This research aimed to identify the principal factors predicting social welfare and inequality in the neighbourhoods of Madrid city. A comprehensive dataset representing various socioeconomic metrics of Madrid’s neighbourhoods is analysed utilising ...
Carlos Alberto Lastras Rodríguez
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring income inequality:a holistic approach [PDF]

, 2015
Income inequality across South Africa as a whole, as well as within organisations, has historically plagued the South African economy. Income inequality has traditionally been viewed from a single view point, most commonly the Wage Gap.
Blair, Chris, Morton, Bryden
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Are all meats substitutes? A basket‐and‐expenditure‐based approach

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the relationship among animal‐based meat and plant‐based meat alternatives (PBMAs) using a basket‐and‐expenditure‐based choice experiment. In particular, we examine whether animal‐based meat products are substitutes or complements with PBMAs.
Clinton L. Neill, Logan L. Britton
wiley   +1 more source

The drivers of local income inequality: a spatial Bayesian model-averaging approach

Regional studies, 2019
This study analyzes the drivers of local income inequality in Spain. It derives a novel data set of inequality metrics for a sample of municipalities over the period 2000–06.
Miriam Hortas-Rico, V. Ríos
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli, Simone Severini, Mauro Vigani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Employing the Gini coefficient to measure participation inequality in treatment-focused Digital Health Social Networks [PDF]

, 2016
Digital Health Social Networks (DHSNs) are common; however, there are few metrics that can be used to identify participation inequality. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the Gini coefficient, an economic measure of statistical ...
AL Graham, B Carron-Arthur, B Carron-Arthur, B Chaudhry, B Healey, B Ploderer, DD McDonnell, DM Doumas, EH Cleary, G Eysenbach, J Chakraborty, J Davis, JA Cunningham, JA Cunningham, JA Cunningham, JA Cunningham, JA Cunningham, JA Cunningham, JA Cunningham, JA Cunningham, JD Herbert, JL Bender, JO Prochaska, K Urbanoski, K Wright, M Sanchez-Craig, MI Harrison, MO Lorenz, NK Cobb, NK Cobb, P Conrad, P Farvolden, P Farvolden, P Farvolden, P Selby, P Wicks, PF Brennan, R Jones, RJ Holden, S Myneni, T Mierlo van, T Mierlo van, T Mierlo van, V Rabius, W Halffman, Y Takahashi, YC Wang   +46 more
core   +1 more source