Launched in 2001, the Thailand Village and Urban Community Fund (VF) provided almost US$2billion – a million baht for each of Thailand's 78,000 villages and wards – to provide working capital for locally-run rotating credit associations. Using data from the Thailand Socioeconomic Surveys of...

Climatic impact on agricultural production is a serious concern, as it is directly linked to food security and poverty. Whereas there are empirical studies that examine this issue with parametric approaches focusing on the “mean” level of variables, few studies have addressed climatic...

Based on an empirical survey in Shanghai, this study tests how the effects of Social Quality’s four domains viz. social economic security, social inclusion, social cohesion, and social empowerment—on subjective well-being (SWB) vary across quantiles of SWB. The results show that house...

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This paper studies the Kuznets relationship for a set of Latin American countries with the aim of characterizing the change in the evolution trend of the regional inequality indicators. Distributional changes are related with a lot of observable factors linked to development variables such as...

Dieses Papier analysiert Determinanten von agrarwirtschaftlichen Landpreisen mit einem besonderen Fokus auf standort-spezifischen Faktoren. Ein asset-pricing Modell wird verwendet um agrarwirtschaftliche Preise in erwartete Erträge von der tatsächlichen Nutzung und der potenziellen Nutzung zu...

In this paper, we develop links between credibility theory and quantiles. More specifically, we show how quantiles can be embedded within the classical Bühlmann’s (1967) credibility model and within Hachemeister’s (1975) regression credibility model. The context of influence function is...