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PROMOTING FARM SAFETY WITH ECONOMIC AND MANAGERIAL INCENTIVES [PDF]

open access: yes
The ex ante marginal values of management strategies for farm producers facing significant exposures to accident risks is assessed. A probit model describing the factors influencing the probability of a farm accident is estimated jointly with an ordered ...
Hartley, Judy, Park, Timothy A.
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Predicting Risk of Long‐Term Institutionalization Among Community Dwelling Veterans Before the COVID‐19 Pandemic

open access: yesHealth Services Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To identify risk of long‐term institutionalization (LTI) among Veterans receiving care in the Veterans Health Administration (VA). Study Setting and Design We developed the “Predicted Long‐term Institutionalization” (PLI) risk model for Veterans alive in the community at the end of fiscal‐year (FY) 2017 followed for LTI in nursing ...
Bruce Kinosian   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Determinants of ESG Ratings: Rater Ownership Matters

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine whether and how common ownership affects Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings—an important research question given the increasing use of these ratings in investment decisions and corporate evaluations. We find that companies with major shareholders in common with the rating agency (“sister firms”) tend to receive ...
Dragon Yongjun Tang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resource Availability and Habitat Quality Drive Time‐Lag Effects in High‐Altitude Ungulate Distribution

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Our analysis revealed that while climate strongly influenced species distributions, habitat change drove most observed delays in distribution responses. In terms of community ecology, dispersed communities exhibited shorter time lags than concentrated groups. Analyses of lag duration revealed a 5–6‐year distribution lag effect in high‐altitude ungulate
Lu Wang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contingent Prizes in Dynamic Contests

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms and government agencies increasingly use online contests to find solutions to problems. These contests allow players to make multiple attempts, and their progress is tracked on a real‐time public leaderboard. Although the contests are dynamic, contest sponsors miss the opportunity to dynamically shape players' incentives, as they award ...
Jorge Lemus, Guillermo Marshall
wiley   +1 more source

Full decomposition of phenotypic variance in dichotomous traits: New methods and key implications for behaviour, demography and evolutionary ecology

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Numerous traits that define behaviour, development, life‐history and species ecology are expressed as dichotomous alternative phenotypes (e.g. morphological and behavioural polyphenisms, reproductive vs. non‐reproductive states, movement vs. philopatry).
Paul Acker, Jane M. Reid
wiley   +1 more source

A Gender Comparison of Economists' Publications [PDF]

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An ordered probit model is used to examine the impact of gender and the quality of the PhD g ranting in stitution o n the publication r ecord of m ale an d f emale economists who received t heir doctorate i n 1985.
E. Bruce Hutchinson   +3 more
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