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Towards a sustainable urban mobility: comparing online and in-store shopping choices

Transportation Engineering
In recent years, e-shopping has gained increasing popularity, with more people gradually shifting from traditional shopping channels to online platforms causing significant impacts on city sustainability due to small, frequent, sprawled, and failed ...
Francesco Piras, Gianfranco Fancello, Antonio Comi   +2 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Investing at Home and Abroad: Different Costs, Different People? [PDF]

We investigate US households’ direct investment in stocks, bonds and liquid accounts and their foreign counterparts, in order to identify the different participation hurdles affecting asset investment domestically and overseas. To this end, we estimate a
Dimitrios Christelis, Dimitris Georgarakos   +1 more
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Investigating the Relation Between Second Language Proficiency and Study Success Using a Causal Inference Approach

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Prior research suggests that second language (L2) proficiency is key in students’ study progress, but this research has mainly been carried out at universities. It is thus unclear how this relation varies across different educational levels. Moreover, previous studies are often not informative about the causality of this relation, making it ...
Sybren Spit, Sible Andringa, Oisín Ryan
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices among smallholder maize farmers in North East District, Botswana

Discover Agriculture
Climate change continues to pose a major threat to agricultural productivity, particularly for smallholder farmers in dryland regions. In response, Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) has emerged as a strategic approach to enhance resilience, productivity ...
Moitlamo Ookeditse Mpinda, Hillary Kiplangat Bett, Augustus Sammy Muluvi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Interplay between Platform Providers and Complementors via Affordance, Autonomy, and Super-Modularity: The Empirical Investigation of the Korean Digital Industry

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
This study examines the dynamic interplay between platform providers and complementors in the context of digital ecosystems, focusing on the complementary factors of affordance, autonomy, and super-modularity.
Dongnyok Shim
doaj   +1 more source

The Economic Effects of ‘Excessive’ Financial Deepening

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the causal implications of high levels of financial deepening for economic development and banking crises in a panel of countries over the past seven decades. We adopt a factor‐augmented heterogeneous difference‐in‐differences estimator and find, in contrast to the existing literature, that very high levels of financial development do
Rachel Cho, Rodolphe Desbordes, Markus Eberhardt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Biased Reaction to Changes in Family‐Related Public Expenditure: How Generosity and Universalism Relate to Fertility

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the relationship between fertility and social policies across countries within the European Union. Using European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU‐SILC) data from 2005 to 2020, the research investigates how increases and reductions in family allowances are connected to the likelihood of subsequent births
Andrea Barigazzi, Giovanni Gallo, Stephan Köppe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Multivariate Probit Model for Learning Trajectories: A Fine-Grained Evaluation of an Educational Intervention. [PDF]

Appl Psychol Meas, 2020
Chen Y, Culpepper SA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Decarbonization Politics for All: Means‐Tested Social Assistance, Eco‐Social Values, and Public Support for Increased Fossil Fuel Taxes in Europe

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many climate change mitigation policies face public opposition, especially when they impose visible costs on households and are perceived as unfairly regressive. This country‐comparative study examines specific social policy instruments that may help build public support for increasing fossil fuel taxes in Europe.
Arvid Lindh, Kenneth Nelson
wiley   +1 more source