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Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Flexible repayment benefits borrowers, but practitioners fear increased moral hazard. Investigating their concerns requires disentangling repayment choices from repayment capacity, which is typically infeasible in field studies. We use a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with 645 microcredit borrowers to cleanly identify the effect of repayment ...
Kristina Czura, Anett John, Lisa Spantig
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THE MEXICAN PESO AND THE KOREAN WON REAL EXCHANGE RATES: EVIDENCE FROM PRODUCTIVITY MODELS [PDF]
Using the U.S. as benchmark country, Korean data from 1970:1 to 2000:4 and Mexican data from 1983:1 to 2000:4 are decomposed into traded and non-traded sectors. We find that the traditional purchasing power parity (PPP) model performs remarkably well for
Andre Varella Mollick, Margot Quijano
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the late 1990s, the pesticide industry has undergone a ‘generics revolution’ as the centre of production, and trade has shifted to the global South. China and India have become major producers, capturing Latin American markets from Northern multinationals. As a major pesticide user and a key node in global supply chains, Argentina offers
Christian Berndt +2 more
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Family characteristics and excess weight in Mexican schoolchildren in 2012
Salud Pública de México, 2017 [Not available]
Alejandro Martínez-Espinosa
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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
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Uniciencia, 1992 Se trabajó en la búsqueda del mejor modelo estadístico que explique el peso fresco y eviscerado, utilizando las variables morfométricas más sobresalientes.
R. Víquez +4 more
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Dollar Denominated Debt and Optimal Security Design [PDF]
During a crisis, developing countries regret having issued dollar denominated debt because they have to pay more when they have less. Ex ante, however, they may be worse off issuing local currency debt because the equilibrium interest rate might rise ...
Felix Kubler, John Geanakoplos
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Associação entre características de desempenho de tilápia-do-nilo ao longo do período de cultivo. [PDF]
, 2017 O objetivo deste trabalho foi estimar as herdabilidades e a estrutura de correlações genéticas entre as características de desempenho de tilápia-do-nilo (Oreochromis niloticus) da linhagem GIFT, em diferentes estágios do ciclo de produção.
ALEXANDRE FILHO, L. +6 more
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New Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on the labour agency of remote‐based online freelancers has often struggled to account for the interplay between platform dynamics, broader labour market conditions, and gendered household responsibilities. This article addresses this gap by proposing an integrated analytical framework that synthesises these dimensions to examine how ...
Jorien H. Oprins
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