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2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Addison ◽  
Kwasi Ohene-Yankyera ◽  
Patricia Pinamang Acheampong ◽  
Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa

Abstract Background Government of Ghana’s effort to reduce income inequality consistently poses a major challenge to public policy formulation. The promotion and dissemination of agricultural technologies as a pathway out of income inequality in rural Ghana have received widespread support. Yet, knowledge about the impact of agricultural technologies on rural income inequality remains low. The objective of the study is to evaluate the link between the uptake of improved rice technologies and income distribution in the study area. Methods This paper uses a survey data from 917 smallholder rice producers in selected communities in Ghana. The study employs the Bourguignon, Fournier, and Gurgand (BFG) selection bias correction model, a two-stage model, to empirically analyse the role of agricultural technologies in rural income distribution. Results The empirical result shows that education, farm size, land ownership, participation in relevant extension training programmes enhance adoption, but gender (female) inhibits uptake of the selected technologies. The empirical result further shows that the uptake of the improved rice seed and fertilizer increases rice farmers’ net revenue significantly. The result further indicates that farmers’ choice of the selected agricultural technologies decreases the sample population income inequality, indicating the uptake of the technologies has an equalizing effect on rice farmers’ income distribution. Conclusion The study concludes that the use of the selected technologies has potential to fight rural poverty in Ghana. The findings have implications for National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) agenda of redistribution of wealth in Ghana.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sihong Zhou ◽  
Lingjing Li ◽  
Fuyun Wang ◽  
Yu Tian

Time perception plays a fundamental role in people’s daily life activities, and it is modulated by changes in environmental contexts. Recent studies have observed that attractive faces generally result in temporal dilation and have proposed increased arousal to account for such dilation. However, there is no direct empirical result to evidence such an account. The aim of the current study, therefore, was to clarify the relationship between arousal and the temporal dilation effect of facial attractiveness by introducing a rating of arousal to test the effect of arousal on temporal dilation (Experiment 1) and by regulating arousal via automatic expression suppression to explore the association between arousal and temporal dilation (Experiment 2). As a result, Experiment 1 found that increased arousal mediated the temporal dilation effect of attractive faces; Experiment 2 showed that the downregulation of arousal attenuated the temporal dilation of attractive faces. These results highlighted the role of increased arousal, which is a dominating mechanism of the temporal dilation effect of attractive faces.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
DR. NAVEED HUSSAIN SHAH ◽  
DR. MUHAMMAD ARIF ◽  
DR. MUHAMMAD ASAD KHAN ◽  
DR. MUHAMMAD FAIZAN MALIK

Contextual difference and inclusion of demographics as independent as well as new dimension of Liquidity preferencemade the study unique and novel in its essence. Empirical result of the correlation matrix is showing aninsignificant correlation of liquidity preference with gender, age, education, experience, annual income, annual savings, occupation and location.Regression analysis depicts significant relationship of liquidity preferencewith Education and Savings given by t-values -2.129, 2.190 and p-values -0 .620, 0.029 respectively.Liquidity preference is showing an insignificant relationship with Gender, Age, Experience, Income and Occupation given by t-values 0.117, 0.076, -1.220, -0.708,-0.144 and p-values .009, 006,-.120,-.075 and -.011 respectively.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Lobato ◽  
Javier Rodríguez ◽  
Herminio Romero

PurposeThis study examines the risk-adjusted performance of socially responsible exchange traded funds (SR ETFs) in comparison to conventional ETFs.Design/methodology/approachThe main empirical result is based on a risk-adjusted performance metric that does not rely on a linear framework. It measures the difference between the returns of an ETF and the returns of a volatility-match and efficient portfolio. In addition, performance is measured using alpha based on single and multifactor formulations.FindingsResults show that the performance of SRI ETFs is not different from the performance of conventional ETFs.Originality/valueGiven the results of the study, socially aware investors can choose to invest in SRI ETFs without sacrificing performance.


Author(s):  
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin ◽  
Ion Giurgea

We start by presenting the main empirical result of this book: a crosslinguistic typology of MOST, which distinguishes between two types of proportional MOST (MOSTdist and MOSTcum) that can occur in both non-partitives and partitives and two types of MOST that are specialized for partitives. We proceed by presenting our main syntactic assumptions and the semantic analyses we proposed for each of the MOSTs we identified.The crucial semantic distinction is between a “distributive” MOST, which compares cardinalities of sets of atoms, and a “cumulative” MOST, which involves measuring plural and mass entities with respect to a whole. Then, we discuss the main semantic analyses proposed in the literature. The last section presents the empirical evidence against Hackl’s (2009) superlative analysis of most.


Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Margherita Carletti ◽  
Roberto Pancrazi

In this short communication, we investigate whether the intensity of the second wave of infection from SARS-CoV-2 that hit Italy in October–November–December 2020 is related to the intensity of the first wave, which took place in March–April 2020. We exploit the variation of the wave intensities across the 107 Italian provinces. Since the first wave has affected not only different regions, but also different provinces of the same region, at a heterogenous degree, this comparison allows useful insights to be drawn about the characteristics of the virus. We estimate a strong negative correlation between the new daily infections among provinces during the first and second waves and show that this result is robust to different specifications. This empirical result can be of inspiration to biologists on the nature of collective immunity underlying COVID-19.


Author(s):  
Nguyen Thanh Hung ◽  
Pham Phu Quoc

The paper aims to verify the impact of state-ownership on banks’ risks at Vietnamese commercial banks. Based on the survey data of 31 commercial banks in Vietnam from 2007 to 2018, the empirical result shows that the state-ownership in the Vietnamese commercial banks has a decrease in the banks’ risks. Besides, the research result is shown that the lower Vietnamese commercial banks’ risks at the previous time lead to the lower ones at present. Furthermore, this evidence contributes to the debate of state-ownership for the Vietnamese commercial banks which gives policy-makers to pay more attention to the efficiency of joint-stock state-ownership.


Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1639
Author(s):  
Marek Skarupski

The classical secretary problem models a situation in which the decision maker can select or reject in the sequential observation objects numbered by the relative ranks. In theoretical studies, it is known that the strategy is to reject the first 37% of objects and select the next relative best one. However, an empirical result for the problem is that people do not apply the optimal rule. In this article, we propose modeling doubts of decision maker by considering a modification of the secretary problem. We assume that the decision maker can not observe the relative ranks in a proper way. We calculate the optimal strategy in such a problem and the value of the problem. In special cases, we also combine this problem with the no-information best choice problem and a no-information second-best choice problem.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Fidita Karya

This study aims to examine the effect of service quality and satisfaction on reuse intention on tour and travel. The research used primary data derived from the questionnaire respondents of tour and travel “X” consumer. The sample in this study amounted to 134 respondents. This study using a non-probability sampling method with a purposive sampling approach and the method used in analyzing data in this study using partial least square. The empirical result of the study show that service quality had a positive effect and significant to customer satisfaction, satisfaction had a positive effect and significant to reuse intention and service quality had a positive effect and significant to reuse intention.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Surahmah Kurnia ◽  
Syamsinar Syamsinar ◽  
Afdaliah Afdaliah

The purpose of this research is to produce the accounting information for management decision making about the estimation of revenue and cost of waste cultivation in hotel. The research methodology used descriptive quantitative using waste material exchange and recycle as the alternatives waste cultivation. The empirical result shows that the estimation of financial performance (profit) which sourced from solid and liquid waste cultivation based on the parameter used will be consideration and recommendation


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