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Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market [PDF]

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We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have preferences over physical attractiveness and socioeconomic characteristics that can be summarized by a one-dimensional index combining these ...
Climent Quintana-Domeque   +2 more
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Co‐Design to Capacity: An Instructional Design Approach for Indigenous Women Empowerment and Sustainable Technology Adoption

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The adoption of rural livelihood technologies is often hindered by a gap between participatory design and user capacity. This study addresses this challenge with a co‐designed lemongrass distillation system in rural India that remained unused due to a lack of community capacity, despite a successful design process.
Aroun Clément Baudouin‐van Os   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Partner Search and Demographics: The Marriage Squeeze in India [PDF]

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If women marry younger than men, increased population growth causes a sur- plus of women in the marriage market. This paper introduces search frictions into a matching model with transferable utility and age-dependent match payos to study if this so ...
Anja Sautmann
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Drop by Drop: The Impact of Green Certifications on Attributed Improvement in Corporate Water Efficiency

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of green certifications on attributed improvements in corporate water efficiency in Bangladesh, considering the moderating roles of regulatory pressure and consumer awareness. Data from 311 respondents were analyzed to test the hypotheses.
Pinki Debnath   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender, Social Reproduction and the Construction of Capabilities for Social Sustainability of Agriculture: A Relational Approach

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers' capabilities, a core component of social sustainability, have been largely neglected in sustainable agriculture discourse. Using a relational approach to capabilities and autonomy, this study explores how women farmers translate the opportunity of agricultural innovation into their valued outcomes, and which factors shape their ...
Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock
wiley   +1 more source

Operationalizing the Metaverse for Urban Sustainability: Evidence From an Expert Panel and the Seoul Metaverse City Case Study

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This
Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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