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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the impact of soil erosion on agricultural land values in the United States (US) Midwest. Based on a novel county‐level panel data set with information on soil erosion levels and agricultural land values covering five census years (1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017), we separately investigate the direct effect of two types ...
Le Chen +3 more
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BMJ Open, 2019 Objectives This study examines the impact of the type of method used on the estimation of the burden of diseases.Design Comparison of methods of estimating disease burden.Setting Four metrics of burden of disease estimation, namely, years of potential ...
Nicholas Buckley +2 more
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Crop insurance and irrigation behavior: The conditional role of pumping costs
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Excessive water use for irrigation can accelerate the depletion of water resources, undermining agriculture's resilience to weather‐related shocks. Understanding how farmers make water use decisions is essential for developing effective water management policies.
Sungmin Cheu, Molly Sears
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The role of empathy in choosing rewards from another’s perspective
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 As social animals, we regularly act in the interest of others by making decisions on their behalf. These decisions can take the form of choices between smaller short-term rewards and larger long-term rewards, and can be effectively indexed by temporal ...
Garret eO'Connell +3 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop +3 more
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Descuento social en pares de personas en diferentes posiciones sociales
Conductual: Revista Internacional de Interconductismo y Análisis de Conducta, 2017 Social discounting refers to the decrease in an individual's willingness to give a reward to another person as the social distance between them increases, and it has been suggested as a metric of altruism. As a parametric extension of social discounting,
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Private and social time preference for health outcomes: A general population survey in Iran.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Despite the recent increase in economic evaluations of health care programs in low and middle income countries, there is still a surprising gap in evidence on the appropriate discount rate and the discounting of health outcomes such as quality adjusted ...
Alireza Mahboub-Ahari +4 more
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino +3 more
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THE NECESSITY OF SPECIAL DISCOUNTING TREATMENT FOR NATURE TO ASSESS THE FLOW OF INVESTMENTS
Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2010 The purpose of the paper is to justify special natural discount rates in the efficiency assessment of conservation activities. Nowadays, the social rate of discounting suggested by D. Pearce is often used.
Alexey Kotko
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Enhancing oil recovery (EOR) in mature reservoirs is hindered by high interfacial tension (IFT) and oil‐wet rock formations, especially under harsh, high‐salinity conditions. This study aims to overcome these limitations by synthesizing a novel carbon nanotube nanocomposite covalently grafted with polyethylenimine and non‐covalently ...
Mohamed Abu Shuheil +8 more
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