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Are Princelings Truly Busted? Evaluating Transaction Discounts in China's Land Market
ABSTRACT This paper replicates Chen and Kung's 2019 analysis (The Quarterly Journal of Economics 134(1): 185–226). Inspecting the data reveals that nearly one‐third of transactions (388,903 out of 1,208,621) are perfect duplicates of other rows, excluding the transaction number.
Julia Manso
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Gubernatorial Re‐Election Incentives, Local Investment Bias, and Pension Fund Performance
ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of gubernatorial re‐election incentive and political factors on US public pension funds from 1990 to 2022. Our empirical analysis finds no significant overall relationship between gubernatorial re‐election incentives and local bias in the full sample.
Hongxian Zhang +3 more
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Abstract Background Bacterial wilt of enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) is a severe disease caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum, resulting in complete crop failure and considerable damage. This study assessed the biochemical responses of two enset clones (one resistant and one susceptible) when inoculated with the pathogen and ...
Getahun Yemata, Masresha Fetene
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Replacing Mancozeb with Alternative Fungicides for the Control of Late Blight in Potato. [PDF]
Ben Naim Y, Cohen Y.
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Improving Affordability and Accessibility for Socially‐Beneficial Services via Government Incentives
ABSTRACT Many socially‐beneficial services, like dental care, suffer from a dual challenge: Low affordability for citizens and long waiting times due to insufficient provider capacity. We model a government's problem of designing subsidy policies to address this issue.
Xiaoyan Zhao, Venus Lo, Stephen Shum
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Fundraising as Contracting: Why Nonprofits Accept In‐Kind Donations
ABSTRACT In‐kind (nonmonetary) donations are a popular form of philanthropy that have received much less scholarly attention than monetary gifts. This study documents the prevalence of types of in‐kind giving and associated organizational practices, then explores links between the perceptions of nonprofit managers, organizational practices, and ...
Elizabeth Searing +3 more
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Abstract The societal and biophysical permeability across human‐demarcated jurisdictions within watersheds necessitates collaboration among administrative regions. The effectiveness of such collaboration is partly determined by the degree to which institutional arrangements align with underlying social and ecological interdependencies, a concept ...
Fang Wang +3 more
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Pathogen-inspired engineering of plant protease enhances late blight resistance. [PDF]
Huang J +3 more
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Breeding for multi‐stress resilience in crops: Myth or possibility?
Climate change threatens millions of farmers worldwide by exposing crops to multiple concurrent or sequential environmental stresses such as drought, heat, waterlogging, and diseases. Although crops have long been selected under naturally occurring multi‐stress conditions, breeding pipelines largely focus on optimal or single‐stress environments ...
Hamid Khazaei +2 more
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Evaluation of Potato Varieties for Yield, Quality, and Late Blight Resistance. [PDF]
Asakaviciute R +3 more
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