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From gateway to value ladder—The curious case of online mutual aid in China
Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines how InsurTech‐enabled information provision, specifically the disclosure of claimant information previously unavailable in conventional insurance, influences individuals' insurance uptake. We leverage Mutual Aid (MA) platforms as a natural context to examine how socially framed loss information, peer influence, and salience
Ze Chen +3 more
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Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Are Climate-Smart Practices Important in Burkina Faso? [PDF]
Plant Environ InteractABSTRACT In Burkina Faso, smallholder farmers rely heavily on rain‐fed agriculture, which is affected by climate change. The adoption of climate‐smart practices is essential to strengthen the resilience of agricultural systems to climate change and improve household food security and, consequently, global food security.
Bado B, Thiombiano N, Tito NT.
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MODELING SPATIAL ACCESSIBILITY WITHIN DISCRETE CHOICE FRAMEWORK [PDF]
Spatial accessibility is concerned with the opportunity that an individual at a given location possesses to participate in a particular activity or set of activities.
Guo, Xiaoqi, Ulimwengu, John M.
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Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Flemish government launched its Spearhead Cluster (SHC) policy in 2017. The aim is to boost strategic sectors by setting up cluster initiatives which coordinate collaborative R&D initiatives. In this paper, we analyze whether becoming a member of such a cluster initiative has an impact on the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of the firm. We
Pierluigi Angelino +2 more
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WHO CHOOSES TO OWN A MANUFACTURED HOME ? [PDF]
Little research has been conducted on the choice of dwelling by U.S. homeowners. Few studies have included manufactured housing into the dwelling choices available to homeowners.
Maria I. Marshall
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Targeting and Effectiveness of Location‐Based Policies
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper provides new insights into the design of effective location‐based policies. In the context of European regional policy, we apply machine learning algorithms to predict regions likely to underutilize EU funding and identify the main determinants of their low absorptive capacity.
Vincenzo Carrieri +3 more
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Religion Affects Whether US Women Marry Early, Without Cohabiting or Having a Nonmarital Birth First
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent US cohorts, premarital sex is ubiquitous, and cohabitation typically precedes marriage. Yet many religions discourage premarital sex, which implies disapproval of cohabitation or premarital birth. Using a discrete‐time event history, we assess how religious denomination, frequency of religious service attendance, and a rich set of ...
Man Xu, Paula England
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Markov Determinantal Point Process for Dynamic Random Sets
Journal of Time Series Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Law of Determinantal Point Process (LDPP) is a flexible parametric family of distributions over random sets defined on a finite state space, or equivalently over multivariate binary variables. The aim of this paper is to introduce Markov processes of random sets within the LDPP framework. We show that, when the pairwise distribution of two
Christian Gouriéroux, Yang Lu
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Predicting longitudinal trajectories of health probabilities with random-effects multinomial logit regression. [PDF]
Stat Med, 2012 Liu X, Engel CC.
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Reasons for not Buying a Car: A Probit-selection Multinomial Logit Choice Model
, 2014 Yanan Gao +3 more
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