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the role of gender and collective action. Based on household data from 270 finger millet producers, a probit model on … finger millet group positively influences the decision to market finger millet. While female household members who do not … context, marketing traditional food crops poses an important income alternative. The present study aims to contribute to the …
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The paper develops a sociological approach for understanding the role of expectations in collective action. It argues that an approach based on expectations is better suited to explain collective action in episodes of social change than existing sociological theories. Two case studies - one on...
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Die Etablierung des Westlichen Maiswurzelbohrers (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera) stellt eine zentrale Herausforderung für die österreichische Maisproduktion dar. Eine aktive Regulierung ist unerlässlich, um weitere Schäden zu verhindern bzw. zu reduzieren. Die Umsetzung bzw. Nicht-Umsetzung...
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overtourism. The digitization of tourism services in the areas of marketing and sales should be one of the priorities addressed by …
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With the commercialization of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender … investigate the gender implications of recently established farmer groups. Traditionally, banana has been a women’s crop in Kenya … negative gender implications of farmer groups can be reduced or avoided when women are group members themselves. In the poorest …
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persistent gender differences in social influence while in matrilineal societies these differences are smaller. While in the … cooperation does not depend on the gender of the monitor. …
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with a finite decision. This paper suggests that this agonistic approach needs de-cisions or simply put, temporary … decisions drawn from seeing a decision as a solution for now. A de-cision is not a no-decision, but a decision recognised as … planning process from being a matter of reaching a finite decision to a strife about how to understand the present and which …
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We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase with age.
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The study of gender differences in social preferences has shown mixed results, preventing economists and other social … hypothesized that the main reason of this heterogeneity of results is the myriad of experimental designs used to study gender … further providing a well-grounded account on the importance of the context for female decision-making. …
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