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Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Flexible repayment benefits borrowers, but practitioners fear increased moral hazard. Investigating their concerns requires disentangling repayment choices from repayment capacity, which is typically infeasible in field studies. We use a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with 645 microcredit borrowers to cleanly identify the effect of repayment ...
Kristina Czura, Anett John, Lisa Spantig
wiley   +1 more source

Unconventional banking and poverty reduction: A regression analysis with policy recommendations for Hail. [PDF]

Heliyon
Mohammed S, Alsaif SS, Alqataan A, Abdelhalee A, Farah M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Japanese Women's Attitudes Toward Learning Languages Other Than English in the Era of Global English

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study on female Japanese learners of the Korean language is situated in the centuries‐long anti‐Korean sentiments in Japan, the global popularity of the Korean Wave, particularly among women, and the essentialized image of socially marginalized young Japanese women who study English with romantic desires for Western men.
Yoko Kobayashi
wiley   +1 more source

Muslim mothers’ intersecting tensions in combining breastfeeding and employment: A systematic review and research agenda

International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.
Abstract The intersection of gender, time and marginalization in organizations is evident in the challenges faced by employed mothers, particularly those who are breastfeeding. These challenges are amplified for Muslim mothers, who must navigate intersecting social identities within these structures shaped by dominant masculine norms.
Feranaaz Farista, Ameeta Jaga
wiley   +1 more source

Enhanced operational efficacy of direct absorption solar collectors using multi-walled carbon nanotubes/MoS₂ nanofluids. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Talebi K, Shamel A, Alayi R, Ebrahimzadeh-Rajaei G, Khodadadi-Moghaddam M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Compassionate Digital Innovation: A Pluralistic Perspective and Research Agenda

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital innovation offers significant societal, economic and environmental benefits but is also a source of profound harms. Prior information systems (IS) research has often overlooked the ethical tensions involved, framing harms as ‘unintended consequences’ rather than symptoms of deeper systemic problems.
Raffaele F. Ciriello, Lars Mathiassen, Marten Risius, Marc Cheong, Helana Scheepers, Emmanuelle Vaast   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tracking decarbonization of multilateral development banks' electricity generation investments.

Cell Rep Sustain
Egli F, Lehofer CM, Palmowski N, Büthe T, Steffen B, Schmidt TS.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Donor human milk practice in Indonesia: a media content analysis. [PDF]

Front Nutr
Pramono A, Hikmawati A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Partisanship, Ethnicity and Tax Policy Perceptions: Investigating Public Responses to Ghana's E‐Levy

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of public opinion on Ghana's electronic transaction levy (E‐Levy), focusing on party politics and ethnic identity roles. The E‐Levy, introduced in 2022, imposed a 1.75% tax on electronic transactions, sparking a nationwide debate. A review of E‐Levy implementation across Africa revealed mixed outcomes, with
Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh
wiley   +1 more source

Ex-ante determinants of IPOs: A dataset for the Malaysian IPOs. [PDF]

Data Brief
Albada A, Low SW, Ramadan RA, Al Qatiti K, Al-Daweri MS.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source