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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap +2 more
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Farmers’ Protests in Germany: Media Coverage and Types of Bias
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The German farmers’ protests of 2024 sparked widespread media coverage and public debate. Yet, media coverage was not always positive, reflecting the media's attention‐seeking and selective focus. Occurrences of farmers blocking media outlets reflected distrust in how their concerns were portrayed.
Felix Schlichte, Doris Läpple
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The Geography of Success: A Spatial Analysis of Export Intensity in the Italian Wine Industry
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the paradox of how Italy's fragmented, SME‐dominated wine industry achieves global export success. Moving beyond purely firm‐centric explanations, we test whether export intensity is spatially dependent, clustering geographically in regional ecosystems.
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Jonas Di Vita
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, 2020 How urban informality, public space, growth and inequality are interconnected has long been a field of scholarly reflection and research. The term ‘informality’ becomes synonymous to the urbanisation process, practice and outcome in the Global South. The
Swapan, Mohammad SH +4 more
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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data [PDF]
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research.
Aysit Tansel, Elif Oznur Kan
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L'Espace Politique, 2016 This article explores the dimensions of informality behind the scenes of Rímac’s local government, a central district of the Peruvian capital, Lima. The municipality’s capacity to oversee urban development is challenged by the magnitude of its problems ...
Jérémy Robert, Pascale Metzger
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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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Improving access to new technologies: An experiment with Kenyan input sellers
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Agrodealers play a critical role in rural economies, selling essential inputs for agricultural production, stocking new products, and providing farmers with technical advice. However, uncertainty can discourage them from stocking newer, less familiar products, limiting the availability of innovative technologies and leading to market failures ...
Sarah W. Kariuki +6 more
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Informality as Philosophy: The Indian Street as Urban Theory
Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUAWhy one sees spatial informality as failure or why one does not see as a philosophy? This paper challenges the assumption by proposing an idea that informality as a coherent spatial philosophy in everyday Urban life. While modern planning majorly shaped
Piyush Das +3 more
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Navigating the Nexus of Urban Informality and Health-Insights From Surat, India: A Short Communication [PDF]
BioSocial Health JournalIntroduction: Urban areas in the Global South are marked by widespread informality stemming from the inability of economic, legal, and institutional systems to accommodate diverse populations.
Anuj Prakash Ghanekar, Mathew George
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