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The importance of accounting for unobserved heterogeneity, state-dependence and differences in residual variances across groups: An application to Irish Farmers land market participation decisions [PDF]

, 2010
working paperLand is an essential input into agricultural production. A grwoing literature is concerned with the factors influencing farmers’ land market participation decisions in developing countries, with developed countries largely ignored. Current
Hanrahan, Kevin, O'Neill, Stephen
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The role of agricultural cooperatives in improving mechanization levels: Differences between outsourcing machinery services and household‐owned machines

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Although mechanization is reshaping rural and agricultural development by reducing drudgery through substituting farm labourers, improving input use efficiency and increasing farm productivity, the level of mechanization in developing countries still needs improvements.
Wanglin Ma, Junpeng Li, Amaka Precious Nnaji, Edinam Dope Setsoafia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the link between social capital and health outcomes in the Italian regions: An empirical analysis

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract An extensive literature demonstrates a positive relationship between social capital and health. However, empirical analyses within the Italian context remain limited. This study contributes to the existing literature by expanding the empirical evidence on this topic for Italy, employing an ecological approach.
Maria Alessandra Antonelli, Giorgia Marini   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding cooperative membership and maize market participation in Rwanda: A Bayesian triple‐hurdle analysis

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Smallholder market participation studies often focus narrowly on selling decisions, overlooking the institutional role of agricultural cooperatives, particularly in contexts like Rwanda, where cooperatives underpin agricultural policy. Consequently, empirical evidence on how cooperative membership shapes farmers’ commercialization across ...
John N. Ng'ombe, Jules Ngango, Aristide Maniriho, Martinson Ankrah Twumasi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wages and Working Conditions in Global Value Chains: The Relevance of Foreign Ownership in New Sourcing Countries

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The debate on the relationship between labour conditions in manufacturing sectors and global value chain (GVC) participation takes a new turn with the emergence of sub‐Saharan African (SSA) economies as important sourcing destinations. With lower levels of economic development, and significantly lower wages than most other exporting countries,
Luc Fransen, Khadija van der Straaten, Ans Kolk, Victor Hartman, Kea Tijdens   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bayesian inference for dynamic Q matrices and attribute trajectories in hidden Markov diagnostic classification models

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Hidden Markov diagnostic classification models capture how students' cognitive attributes evolve over time. This paper introduces a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for diagnostic classification models that jointly estimates time‐varying Q matrices, latent attributes, item parameters, attribute class proportions and transition ...
Chen‐Wei Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Racial bias in criminal sentencing: Historical evidence from Chinese railway workers in British Columbia

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract Do discriminatory attitudes held in the public influence public institutions? We study this question within the context of the criminal justice system of historical British Columbia (BC). During the late 1870s and early 1880s, an influx of Chinese immigrant workers employed in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was the catalyst
Kris Inwood, Ian Keay, Blair Long
wiley   +1 more source

Differential Mortality in the UK [PDF]

In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/89 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after conditioning on the initial health status, wealth rankings are
Carl Emmerson, Orazio P. Attanasio
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Grime and Punishment: Employment, Wages and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation [PDF]

, 1997
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/39493/3/wp103 ...
Acquisti, Alessandro, Lehmann, Hartmut, Wadsworth, Jonathan   +2 more
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An experimental approach to assess the combined effects of multiple stressors on a large vertebrate species

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The design of experiments to investigate the combined effects of multiple stressors requires exposing target organisms to multiple combinations of stressor doses. Concurrent manipulation of stressors is often infeasible with wildlife, but long‐lasting health effects allow individual health to be used as an integrator of prior stressor exposure.
Enrico Pirotta, Catriona M. Harris, Lori H. Schwacke, Len Thomas, Jason B. Allen, Aaron A. Barleycorn, Marco Casoli, Jonathan Crossman, Laura Aichinger Dias, Laura Engleby, Erin LaBrecque, Jenny A. Litz, Katherine A. McHugh, Patrick J. O. Miller, Michael J. Moore, Theoni Photopoulou, Brian M. Quigley, Cynthia R. Smith, Brandon L. Southall, Todd R. Speakman, Ryan Takeshita, Christina N. Toms, Randall S. Wells, Eric S. Zolman, Peter L. Tyack   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source