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Measuring educational inequalities:A method and an application to Albania [PDF]
In this paper, we investigate whether educational inequalities stem rather from differences between families or within families. In a poor economy, schooling is costly for parents and education is likely to be unequally distributed among siblings ...
François-Charles Wolff, Nathalie Picard
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Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Despite high awareness of fall armyworm, a significant gap remains in the use of sustainable and effective control measures. Farmers predominantly perceive synthetic pesticides as ideal despite studies highlighting botanical and traditional methods as more sustainable.
Richard Adabah +6 more
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La metodología de rating “through the cycle”: aplicación para la estimación de ratings soberanos [PDF]
This paper analyses the through-the-cycle rating concept; basically, we try to specify its main characteristics, focusing on the differences with point-in-time ratings.
Pena, Alejandro, Rodríguez, Analía
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how home‐ and host‐country institutions jointly shape the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on firms' climate action commitments (CAC) in emerging markets. Drawing on New Institutional Economics and Varieties of Capitalism, we conceptualize FDI as a mechanism of institutional transmission through which multinational
Jose Pla‐Barber, David Tobón‐Orozco
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Determinants of Exchange Rate Practices in the MENA Countries: Some Further Empirical Results [PDF]
, 2009 This paper analyses the determinants of exchange rate practices in 15 MENA countries for the 1977- 2007 period placing special emphasis on structural and macroeconomic explanations.
Daly, Sfia Mohamed, Sami, Mouley
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Blockchain and Food Trust: Will Consumers Pay More?
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Blockchain is increasingly used in agri‐food supply chains to make products more transparent and trustworthy. Yet, in countries like Italy, where certifications such as PDO, PGI, and organic labels already shape consumer confidence, its added value is still unclear.
Federico Modica +3 more
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Parental Impact on Attitude Formation - A Siblings Study on Worries about Immigration [PDF]
The existing literature on attitudes towards immigration has not accounted for the potential effect of unobservable home education on attitude formation.
Jan Brenner
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The Strategic Logic of Biodiversity: Why Firms Invest in Nature‐Based Initiatives
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss poses profound strategic and operational challenges for firms, yet management research offers limited evidence on which organisational mechanisms effectively reduce corporate biodiversity impacts. This study introduces the Biodiversity Strategy Configuration Framework (BSCF) to enhance the understanding of firm‐level ...
Post Raj Pokharel
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between financial inclusion, institutional quality, and female labor force participation in sub‐Saharan Africa over the period 1990–2023. Using panel data for 43 countries and employing OLS, FGLS, and dynamic GMM estimators, the analysis examines whether access to financial institutions and financial markets ...
Joshua Chukwuma Onwe +3 more
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Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary This study examines how academic entrepreneurs refine business ideas in response to external critique and how these responses relate to performance. We develop a framework that links feedback (critique), business‐idea changes (pivots), and performance, and test it using detailed data on external stakeholder feedback, changes ...
D. Carrington Motley +2 more
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