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Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje; Kobayashi, Kiyoshi; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

This paper provides an overview of relevant topics in contemporary research concerned with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In particular, we highlight how the global scene is changing in the contemporary world economy that we char-acterize as a knowledge...

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Role of Social Networks in Diversification o Income Sources in Rural India

Johny, Judit; Wichmann, Bruno; Swallow, Brent - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

Rural households in developing countries adopt diversification of income sources as a common strategy to stabilize … their income throughout the year. We view social networks as an important factor that influences diversification activities … diversification in Wayanad District of South India. We develop a network econometric model based on a Spatial Autoregressive …

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Peer-Effects on Childhood Obesity: An Instrumental Variables Approach on Exogenously Assigned Peers

Asirvatham, Jebaraj; Thomsen, Michael; Nayga, Rodolfo M. Jr. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

This study investigates whether peers are a contributing factor in childhood body-weight outcomes. Using an instrumental variables method on exogenously assigned peers, we find that the weight of peers within the same grade and school significantly impacts body mass index (BMI) z-score of an...

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The role of social networks in an imperfect market for agricultural technology products: Evidence on Bt cotton adoption in Pakistan

Ma, Xingliang; Spielman, David J.; Nazli, Hina; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

Social networks play an important role in generating learning externalities that can drive the diffusion of innovative, and potentially poverty-reducing, technologies. This is particularly the case in developing countries where rural education, extension, and agricultural information services...

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Local Food Systems, Ethnic Entrepreneurs, and Social Networks

Hightower, Lisa S.; Brennan, Mark A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

African immigrants in the United States (U.S.) experience immense challenges in the form of poverty, unemployment, and underemployment. Limited English language proficiency often restricts African immigrants to low-paying, unskilled positions. Ethnic entrepreneurship in the form of small-scale...

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Learning and Synergy in Social Networks: Productivity Impacts of Informal Labor Sharing Arrangements

Mekonnen, Dawit; Dorfman, Jeffrey - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

We study the effects of informal labor sharing arrangements and other social interactions on farmers' productivity in a developing country context, testing whether these types of social and work interactions lead to productivity gains through learning, synergy, or both. Using a rich panel data...

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Does Labour Mobility Foster Innovation? Evidence from Sweden

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Ding, Ding; Thulin, Per - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

By utilising a Swedish unique, matched employer-employee dataset that has been pooled with firm-level patent application data, we provide new evidence that knowledge workers’ mobility has a positive and strongly significant impact on firm innovation output, as measured by firm patent...

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COMMERCIALIZATION EFFECTS ON HOUSEHOLD INCOME, POVERTY, AND DIVERSIFICATION: A COUNTERFACTUAL ANALYSIS OF MAIZE FARMERS IN KENYA

Olwande, John; Smale, Melinda - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

diversification among Kenya’s smallholder maize growers. We employ a combination of propensity score matching and endogenous switching … differing across segments of maize growers, while the impact on diversification of income sources is not significant in most …

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The Sophistication and Diversification of the African Agricultural Sector: A Product Space Approach

Badibanga, Thaddee Mutumba; Ulimwengu, John M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

focus on the agricultural sector. Between 1962 and 2008, we find that both specialization and diversification occur for the … diversification of agricultural exports is rather insignificant. Compared to Africa, Brazil appears to have experienced a more … balanced process in terms of both specialization and diversification of its agriculture. African countries’ specific …

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