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Investing at home and abroad: different costs, different people? [PDF]
, 2009 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
Christelis, Dimitris +1 more
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British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Hidden Markov diagnostic classification models capture how students' cognitive attributes evolve over time. This paper introduces a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for diagnostic classification models that jointly estimates time‐varying Q matrices, latent attributes, item parameters, attribute class proportions and transition ...
Chen‐Wei Liu
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsHeat-tolerant tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L) can be used to alleviate the impact of climate variability, increase productivity, and increase income of smallholder vegetable farmers under tropical conditions.
Bright O. Asante +6 more
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Marginal Effects in Multivariate Probit and Kindred Discrete and Count Outcome Models [PDF]
Estimation of marginal or partial effects of covariates x on various conditional parameters or functionals is often the main target of applied microeconometric analysis.
Mullahy, John
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Ghana Journal of Development Studies, 2019 The need for practising modern techniques in rice production has become increasingly important in Ghana as the per capita cultivable land continues to shrink.
S. Donkoh, S. B. Azumah, J. Awuni
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Creative disruption: technology innovations during unexpected turmoil
Economica, EarlyView.Abstract The 2020 pandemic shock created both local and global turmoil, increasing uncertainty and decreasing production. Utilizing a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population‐wide register data, we show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, in terms of both ...
Erling Barth +2 more
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Determinant Factors of Farmers’ Willingness to Start Agritourism in Rural Nepal
Open Agriculture, 2019 Agritourism in developing countries is regarded as a tool not only for rural development but also for poverty alleviation. However, up until now, the majority of the studies on agritourism have been conducted in economically strong countries, focusing on
Bhatta Kumar +2 more
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European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the relationship between Chief Financial Officer (CFO) overconfidence and firm performance through the lens of environmental violations and constituency statutes. Drawing on stakeholder and upper echelons theories, we find that firms with overconfident CFOs are more likely to commit environmental violations, which ...
Panagiotis Andrikopoulos +4 more
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Family background, cohort and education: A French-German comparison [PDF]
This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany, relying on a theoretical model imbedded in the human capital theory.
Lauer, Charlotte
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End-to-End Learning for the Deep Multivariate Probit Model
, 2018 The multivariate probit model (MVP) is a popular classic model for studying binary responses of multiple entities. Nevertheless, the computational challenge of learning the MVP model, given that its likelihood involves integrating over a multidimensional constrained space of latent variables, significantly limits its application in practice. We propose
Chen, Di, Xue, Yexiang, Gomes, Carla P.
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