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Does Gender Wage Gap Exist among Farm Workers in Nigeria? Evidence from Decomposition-Matching Analysis

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Economics and Business, 2023
Using a cross-sectional survey data of agricultural farms, we investigate gender-based differences in farm wages among farm workers by randomly allocating farm workers into treatment (female) and control (male) groups with a simple random sampling ...
Daudu Abdulrazaq K., Kareem Oyedola W., Olatinwo Latifat K., Shuaib Suleiman B., Abdulrahman Abdulganiyu I.   +4 more
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Innovativeness and entrepreneurial performance of female entrepreneurs

Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, 2022
Entrepreneurs' innovativeness is an important factor affecting the performance of start-up companies. Based on social cognitive theory, this study analyzes the relationship between female entrepreneurs' innovativeness and entrepreneurial performance at a
Yangjie Huang, Ping Li, Jing Wang, Kexin Li   +3 more
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Household and student survey-based evidence on girls secondary education in Afghanistan

Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023
Afghanistan has long had one of the poorest education records in the world and females in particular have exceptionally low rates of literacy. This paper presents descriptive evidence using novel survey data that 1) peer-to-peer mentorship can improve ...
Elizabeth Lyons
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Analysis of YFP(J16)-R6/2 reporter mice and postmortem brains reveals early pathology and increased vulnerability of callosal axons in Huntington's disease [PDF]

Human Molecular Genetics, 2015
Cumulative evidence indicates that the onset and severity of Huntington's disease (HD) symptoms correlate with connectivity deficits involving specific neuronal populations within cortical and basal ganglia circuits. Brain imaging studies and pathological reports further associated these deficits with alterations in cerebral white matter structure and ...
Rodolfo G, Gatto, Yaping, Chu, Allen Q, Ye, Steven D, Price, Ehsan, Tavassoli, Andrea, Buenaventura, Scott T, Brady, Richard L, Magin, Jeffrey H, Kordower, Gerardo A, Morfini   +9 more
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Range‐wide sampling reveals cryptic lineages but largely conserved mycorrhizal associations in the Japanese fairy lantern Thismia kobensis

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The jewel‐like flowers of Thismia are as rare as they are beautiful, often recorded from only a single site per species. Access to 15 populations of T. kobensis has enabled an uncommon, range‐wide assessment of morphology, genetics, and fungal partners. Our analyses showed that T.
Kenji Suetsugu, Kazuma Takizawa, Kazuki Inui, Akihiro Nishimura, Shun K. Hirota   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender diversity in corporate boards and firm risk-taking: Evidence from Pakistan

Economics and Business Review
Using annual data from 49 publicly listed non-financial firms from January 2011 to December 2022, this study investigates how board gender diversity affects firm risk-taking behaviour in Pakistan.
Shakeel Sobia, Khawaja Mohsin
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Creating a Masterpiece. The Road to (and Beyond) Woodward and Hoffmann's 1969 Angewandte Chemie Treatise

The Chemical Record, EarlyView.
This publication describes how R. B. Woodward and Roald Hoffmann crafted their masterpiece publications. Illustrations include Woodward's first draft of the famous “Violations There are none. Nor can violations be expected of so fundamental a principle of maximum bonding.” Original but discarded text shows the stepwise paths toward the W‐H masterpieces.
Jeffrey I. Seeman
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging the Gender Digital Gap

Economics: Journal Articles, 2019
Despite the headway the world has experienced over the last couple of years in terms of a substantial increase in digital access, there are still significant challenges to overcome in ensuring women are included in the transformation to a digital society,
Mariscal Judith, Mayne Gloria, Aneja Urvashi, Sorgner Alina   +3 more
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Board age and value diversity: Evidence from a collectivistic and paternalistic culture

Borsa Istanbul Review, 2021
The current study investigates whether board age diversity affects company financial performance and risk, and whether diverse work-related values held by directors of different ages are the underlying cause of any effects via a sample of listed ...
Emrah Arioglu
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From dusk till dawn: ecoacoustic monitoring reveals wind energy impacts on roding Eurasian woodcock Scolopax rusticola

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Renewable energy is vital for reducing carbon emissions and yet its infrastructure poses challenges to biodiversity. While the impacts of wind power on bats and raptors are well‐studied, the effects on elusive species remain largely unknown. The Eurasian woodcock Scolopax rusticola, a nocturnal forest bird, performs characteristic courtship flights at ...
Jan O. Engler, Michael Bokämper, Stefan Hannabach, Manuela Merling de Chapa, Lena Daum, Kostadin B. Georgiev, Simon Thorn   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source