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Texas Workforce Investment Council Briefing Materials
, 2016 Briefing materials compiled for a meeting of the Texas Workforce Investment Council held December 9, 2016 at Austin Community College. The materials include..
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Ecology and EvolutionResearch on plant functional traits have advanced our understanding of plant investment acquisition strategies. However, it is still unknown how a plant investment acquisition strategy varies or how the relative position of plants on the leaf economic ...
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Improving access to new technologies: An experiment with Kenyan input sellers
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Agrodealers play a critical role in rural economies, selling essential inputs for agricultural production, stocking new products, and providing farmers with technical advice. However, uncertainty can discourage them from stocking newer, less familiar products, limiting the availability of innovative technologies and leading to market failures ...
Sarah W. Kariuki +6 more
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Better Open Than Intellectual: The Benefits of Investment Personality Traits for Learning [PDF]
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2017 The investment theory of adult intelligence posits that individual differences in knowledge attainment result from people’s differences in cognitive ability and their propensity to apply and invest that ability, which is referred to as investment personality traits. Here, we differentiated intellectual (i.e., intellectual curiosity) and nonintellectual
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American 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
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The Big Five Personality Traits Indonesia Investor during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Media Ekonomi dan ManajemenThis study aims to determine the effect of the big five personality traits on financial risk tolerance and investment decision. The context of this research occurs for investors in Indonesia during the covid-19 pandemic period. The approach taken in this
Werner Ria Murhadi +2 more
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What drives firms' investment in climate change?
, 2023 High energy prices in Europe and uncertainty caused by the Ukraine war are testing EU firms’ ability to invest in climate change measures. Europe urgently needs to embrace the transition to green energy, and firms will be called upon to play a pivotal
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Policy uncertainty shocks and farm investments in Europe: Evidence from a newspaper‐based index
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract In order to quantify the impact of agricultural policy uncertainty on European farmers' investment behavior, we construct a newspaper‐based monthly index of European agricultural policy uncertainty from 2013 to 2023. We use 327,224 newspaper articles to assess and compare the trends in policy uncertainty across five top agricultural producers ...
Viviana Garcia +2 more
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Investment Trait, Activity Engagement, and Age: Independent Effects on Cognitive Ability [PDF]
Journal of Aging Research, 2012 In cognitive aging research, the “engagement hypothesis” suggests that the participation in cognitively demanding activities helps maintain better cognitive performance in later life. In differential psychology, the “investment” theory proclaims that age differences in cognition are influenced by personality traits that determine when, where, and how ...
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study assesses the effects of the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires (BSB), which primarily occurred in rural regions of Victoria and represent the deadliest bushfire event in Australia's history, on household energy poverty. Using a linear panel event‐study, an entropy‐balanced event‐study, and a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD ...
Yitian Wang, Russell Smyth
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