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Rural land rental markets in developing countries: Can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract A longstanding puzzle in the African land rental market literature is the often‐observed discrepancy between the number of tenants (renters‐in) and the much smaller number of landlords (renters‐out) in survey data. If this discrepancy derives from systematic biases in survey data responses on rental market participation, then the existing body
Gashaw T. Abate   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Newt Gingrich's Remarks from the AEI-Brookings Joint Center Event: "Markets vs. Government" [PDF]

open access: yes
Newt Gingrich discussed Clifford Winston's book, Government Failure vs. Market Failure: Microeconomics Policy Research and Government Performance , at an AEI-Brookings Joint Center event held on May 4, 2007.Regulatory ...
Gingrich, Newt
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Technical Rate of Substitution of Spectrum in Future Mobile Broadband Provisioning

open access: yes, 2015
Dense deployment of base stations (BSs) and multi-antenna techniques are considered key enablers for future mobile networks. Meanwhile, spectrum sharing techniques and utilization of higher frequency bands make more bandwidth available.
Sung, Ki Won, Yang, Yanpeng
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Learning Outcomes For Economists [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Articulating thoughtful learning outcome statements for courses and majors improves teaching and learning and satisfies accreditation requirements. After reading this paper, economists will be able to construct learning outcome statements that guide and ...
Allgood, S., Bayer, Amanda
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Global agricultural value chains and food prices

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study the relationship between the extent of participation in global agricultural value chains (GAVCs) and food prices at the country level. Using longitudinal data on a sample of 138 countries for the period 2000–2015 and a shift‐share instrumental variable design, we study how the extent of a country's participation in GAVCs in a given ...
Bernhard Dalheimer, Marc F. Bellemare
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Attendance: Key Determinants to Improve Students’ Course Performance at a Small Liberal Arts College [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The improvement of college students’ course performance is an important topic for instructors. Many researchers have found an inverse relationship between number of absences and course performance, suggesting that attendance matters for students’ course ...
Kitaoka, Hisaya
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Product churn, tastes, and price indices

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Price indices commonly used to measure inflation do not account for the entry and exit of products nor for systemic changes in consumer preferences over time. Recent developments in the theory of price indices show that these issues have significant impacts on the growth of prices that consumers experience.
Hao Lan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the role of spatial externalities in the survival of Italian innovative startups

open access: yesRegional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract The paper provides novel empirical evidence about the effects of spatial externalities on the survival of innovative startups in Italy. Using geocoded firm‐level data, we build micro‐geographic measures of specialization and diversity that are robust to the modifiable areal unit problem.
Diego Giuliani   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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