Political Partisanship and State‐Level Bank Efficiency
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between political partisanship and commercial bank efficiency in the United States from 1972 to 2020, assessing the persistent influence of political affiliations at the state and District of Columbia levels. Bank efficiency scores are estimated using a double‐bootstrap approach, and the analysis is conducted within
Jeremy Eng‐Tuck Cheah +3 more
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Adoption of Conservation Agriculture Technologies by Smallholder Farmers in the Shamva District of Zimbabwe: A Tobit application [PDF]
Conventional agricultural practices such as the use of the moldboard plough are no longer sustainable due to their extensive soil degradation effects.
Wall, Patrick +2 more
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Gender Justice in the Triple Planetary Crisis: A Scoping Review
ABSTRACT Aim To identify and report how gender justice is conceptualised and discussed in contemporary health literature in relation to the Triple Planetary Crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss, with a particular focus on the experiences of women and gender‐diverse populations, and the representation of nurses and other healthcare ...
Catelyn Richards +7 more
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An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia [PDF]
Do rural households in developing countries make market participation and volume decisions simultaneously or sequentially? This article develops a two-stage econometric model that allows testing between these two competing hypotheses regarding household ...
Barrett, Christopher B. +1 more
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Bayesian lightweight emulators for multivariate computer models
Statistical emulators for the outputs of complex computer codes (simulators) are typically constructed using nonparametric regression methods, such as Gaussian Process (GP) regression. For many simulators, emulators based on parametric models may provide
Woods, David C., Overstall, Antony M.
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Evidence Gathering Under Competitive and Noncompetitive Rewards
ABSTRACT Reward schemes may affect not only agents' effort but also their incentives to gather information in order to reduce the riskiness of the productive activity. In a laboratory experiment using a novel task, we find that the relationship between incentives and evidence gathering depends critically on the availability of information about peers ...
Philip Brookins +2 more
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Analysis of change in patient-reported outcome measures with floor and ceiling effects using the multilevel Tobit model: a simulation study and an example from a National Joint Register using body mass index and the Oxford Hip Score. [PDF]
Sayers A +5 more
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Household portfolio allocation and stock market beliefs: Evidence from Japanese households
Abstract We analyze data from the Keio Household Panel Survey (KHPS) to investigate how individuals' beliefs about financial markets influence current and planned asset holdings. Our results reveal statistically and economically significant relations between specific beliefs and both present asset allocations and accumulation.
Raslan Alzuabi, Daniel Gray
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Survey: Competition in Higher Education
ABSTRACT This paper provides a bibliometric mapping and economic interpretation of the literature on competition in higher education. Drawing on 1470 Scopus‐indexed articles (1961–2023), we combine descriptive bibliometrics, a keyword co‐occurrence network, and a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) of harmonized author‐assigned keywords with a ...
Amjad Aun
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