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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Revista de Economía y Estadística, 2012 Una reversión de la cuenta corriente es, en general, un cambio brusco, sustancial y sostenido del déficit, pero existen diversas propiedades estadísticas para su identificación empírica.
Sergio Barone +2 more
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A comparison of multilevel ordinal regression models in the analysis of police force ratings
Croatian Review of Economic, Business and Social StatisticsIn the literature several methods have been developed to model ordinal data while considering their natural ordering. However, this study sought to compare two possible link functions for the multilevel ordinal regression using males’ ratings of the ...
Douglas Andabati Candia +3 more
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Factors explaining household payment for potable water in South Africa
Cogent Social Sciences, 2018 The critical role of clean water for sustaining life is enshrine in the Sustainable Development Goals 2030. However, water scarcity currently affects more than 40% of people globally and by 2030, demand for water is expected to grow by 50%.
B. E. Akinyemi +2 more
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A note on estimated coefficients in random effects probit models [PDF]
, 1998 This note points out to applied researchers what adjustments are needed to the coefficient estimates in a random effects probit model in order to make valid comparisons in terms of coefficient estimates and marginal effects across different ...
Arulampalam, Wiji
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether information about production methods and social norms can increase consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) a price premium for food produced using climate‐friendly farming methods. A randomized survey experiment was conducted with 1568 respondents across Denmark, Lithuania, and Spain, who were assigned to one of four ...
Kassa Tarekegn Erekalo +5 more
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PREFERENSI INDIVIDU TERHADAP PENGOBATAN TRADISIONAL DI INDONESIA
Jurnal Ekonomi & Studi Pembangunan, 2015 :This study aims to determine the preferences of individuals to choose traditional medicine in Indonesia. The data used in this study obtained from the Indonesian Family Live Survey (IFLS) and it’s a longitudinal survey with a panel data study.
Herika Jennifer, Endah Saptutyningsih
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Improving the Efficiency of Probit Estimators [PDF]
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1984 The efficiency with which coefficients in probit mod- els are estimated is improved by exploiting data on continuous ancillary variates. In this paper the resulting gains in efficiency are examined and illustrative calculations are provided. Extra precision is achieved at the cost of making an extra assumption but this assumption can be tested.
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Value of Sample Separation Information in a Sequential Probit Model: Another Look at SSA's Disability Determination Process [PDF]
Disability, Method of Simulated Movements, Multivariate Probit, Social Security.
Chuanming Gao, B. Wixon, Kajal Lahiri
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