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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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Luis Roniger y Leonardo Senkman, América tras bambalinas. Teorías conspirativas, usos y abusos
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2021 Edward Blumenthal
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An Introduction to the Special Volume on "Political Methodology" [PDF]
This special volume of the Journal of Statistical Software on political methodology includes 14 papers, with wide-ranging software contributions of political scientists to their own field, and more generally to statistical data analysis in the the social
Achim Zeileis +3 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou +3 more
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Nauki o polityce i ich usytuowanie w systemie nauk
Politeja, 2015 As the political science has been assigned to new field and domain of social science in 2011 instead of being assigned to humanities, it has caused astonishment and some kind of discomfort in many centres of political science.
Grzegorz Janusz
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen +2 more
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, 1958 Vastly increased research and a sounder technique in history in the nineteenth century had two influences on the social sciences. When an enthusiasm for the records of history was combined with the evolutionary perspective, it often resulted in the ...
Bloom, Robert L. +6 more
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Rancière and the poetics of the social sciences [PDF]
, 2009 This article reviews the significance of Jacques Rancière’s work for methodological debates in the social sciences, and education specifically. It explores the implications of framing methodology as an aesthetic endeavour, rather than as the applied ...
Pelletier, Caroline
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli +2 more
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L’étude scientifique du politique est-elle une science de l’observation des faits politiques ?
Sociologies, 2016 Can we relate sociological analyzes of policy objects to a science of observing political facts? The purpose of this article is to figure out cognitive biases induced by the explanatory logic derived from the observation of sciences in the analysis of ...
Virginie Tournay
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