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Fair Trade has spread in developing countries as an initiative aimed at lifting poor smallholder farmers out of poverty by providing them with premium prices, availability of credit, and improved community development and social goods. Fair Trade is also viewed as a niche market for high value...
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Fair Trade has spread in developing countries as an initiative aimed at lifting poor smallholder farmers out of poverty by providing them with premium prices, availability of credit, and improved community development and social goods. Fair Trade is also viewed as a niche market for high value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959823
social media and show that it is fragile and highly sensitive to the choice of included periods and to the use of weights. We …
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) of our 2015 paper "Media Influences on Social Outcomes: The Impact of MTV's 16 and Pregnant on Teen Childbearing." In …
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real-time media. It subsequently attenuates, but hate crime incidence cumulates to higher levels than prior to the series … take place, local Muslim populations face a media magnified likelihood of hate crime victimization following international … and research perspective, means that the process of media magnification of hate crime needs to be better understood. …
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and economic anticipations play a minimal role, while traditional media filter the most salient events. The effect is …
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have free attention capacity. At the positive level, the impacts of ITprogress, international integration and media on … policy interventions are characterized. Finally, behavioral effects of intensified attention-seeking on market power …
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biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to …
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This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice in the Netherlands. For this purpose, we use both school level and individual student level data. First, we study the causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high...
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We document that trust in public institutions and particularly trust in banks, business and government has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy of...
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