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Indentifying human capital externalities: Theory with an application to US cities [PDF]
The identification of aggregate human capital externalities is still not fully understood. The existing (Mincerian) approach confounds positive externalities with wage changes due to a downward sloping demand curve for human capital.
Antonio Ciccone, Giovanni Peri
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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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Вестник университета, 2016 The article analyses the concept of «human capital» and highlights the most important of its components. It emphasizes and proves the importance of investing in human capital, substantiates the importance of innovation culture as an important aspect of ...
M. Barsuk, A. Lyutina, P. Kapyrin
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Birth order and human capital development: Evidence from Ecuador [PDF]
, 2012 In this paper we examine the effect of birth order on human capital development in Ecuador using a large national database together with self-collected survey data.
Plug, Erik +5 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.As food insecurity and global food demands surge, artificial intelligence (AI)‐based technologies offer promising opportunities to reduce food loss and waste. In this perspective, current AI adoption across the food supply chain is assessed using various academic, industry, and policy sources.
Akansha Prasad +5 more
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Black-White Differences in the Insurance Value of Human Capital [PDF]
This paper studies the implications of black-white differences in uninsurable labor market risk for racial differences in the value of human capital. Two approaches to estimate the value of human capital in the presence of heterogeneous labor market risk
Alexander Whalley
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman +1 more
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Вестник университета, 2019 The article analyses the concept of «human capital» and highlights the most important of its components. It emphasizes and proves the importance of investing in human capital, substantiates the importance of innovation culture as an important aspect of ...
M. Barsuk, A. Lyutina, P. Kapyrin
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Capital Augmenting and Labor Augmenting Approach in Measuring Contribution of Human Capital and Education to Economic Growth [PDF]
In this paper an effort has been made to unveil some hidden and implicit assumptions that has been used in different models dealing with analysis and measurement of contribution of human capital to economic growth.
Milenko Popovic
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the impact of soil erosion on agricultural land values in the United States (US) Midwest. Based on a novel county‐level panel data set with information on soil erosion levels and agricultural land values covering five census years (1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017), we separately investigate the direct effect of two types ...
Le Chen +3 more
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