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Incentives, supervision, and sharecropper productivity [PDF]
Although sharecropping has long fascinated economists, the determinants of this contractual form are still poorly understood and the debate over the extent of moral hazard is far from settled.
Jacoby, Hanan G., Mansuri, Ghazala
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Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians generate knowledge through the labour of composition – through the friction between interpretation and evidence that makes claims open to scrutiny and challenge. This essay argues that when composition is bypassed, that structure disappears. Generative AI raises this issue in urgent fashion.
CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS
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A Tenant's Guide to New York City's Pet Laws: Keeping Your Pet in a NYC Apartment [PDF]
, 2010 Many New Yorkers live in housing that does not allow pets. Nevertheless, many New Yorkers either would like to get or already have a pet, despite the prevalence of no-pet clauses in leases. This guide will help you understand the laws about pet ownership
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
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A theory of sharecropping: the role of price behavior and imperfect competition [PDF]
This paper proposes a theory of sharecropping on the basis of price behavior in agriculture and imperfectly competitive nature of rural product markets.
Sen, Debapriya
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract The Beqaa Valley in Lebanon has become increasingly polluted, and residents are attributing illness to improper waste disposal and dumping. This article explores local epistemologies of pollution’s causes and effects in three films, which were researched and produced by local residents of Bar Elias, a small town in the Beqaa, which has rapidly
Hannah Sender +2 more
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Enfances, Familles, GénérationsResearch Framework: In a French context of widespread access to home ownership since the 1980s, rental property has long remained neglected in sociological analysis, in favor of owner-occupation analysis.
Cécile Vignal
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The Naive Autobiographical Novel Tkachov’s Life by Fedor Kudreshov
Avtobiografija, 2019 This contribution reproduces the text of the naive novel Tkachov’s Life (1850) written by Penza landlord clerk F. Kudreshov. Oral memories of his fellow villager Stepan Tkachov serve as a frame for a fictional autobiography, which is based on the images ...
Sergei Alpatov
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Arkansas Landlord Selection of Land-Leasing Contract Type and Terms [PDF]
Land leasing is a major source of the land input to production agriculture. Responses from a survey of landlords leasing crop land in Arkansas are analyzed to better understand those factors motivating landlords in the type of lease they select and the ...
Ahrendsen, Bruce L. +4 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
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