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Economic inequality and loss of commons: Evidence from India
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In this paper, a comprehensive nationally representative dataset from India is used to study the relationship between economic inequality and the loss of commons in rural India. But, the relationship is ambiguous when local commons are governed under an incomplete decentralization regime where higher levels of government retain substantial residuary powers.About:
This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 2019-10-01. It has received 6 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Commons & Economic inequality.read more
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Diversity Deficit and Scale-Flip
TL;DR: The authors presented a comprehensive multi-scale test of the diversity-deficit hypothesis that posits a negative association between diversity and development and developed a "scale-flip hypothesis" that forma...
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Celebrating Jodha: And Revisiting the Commons
TL;DR: Jodha's passing away provides an opportunity to revisit the commons issue for multiple reasons, mainly that the livelihood issues that triggered the study of the commons still remain this article. But despite all the livelihood benefits that the commons provide, it is widely acknowledged that commons in India are under threat, which throws open multiple questions: Is it due to the absence of secure property rights among local communities or the result of weak governance mechanisms?
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Corporate environmental information disclosure and green innovation: The moderating effect of CEO visibility
TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the effect of corporate environmental information disclosure (EID) on green innovation in China's heavily polluting industries during 2009-2020 and the moderating effect of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) visibility.
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Social capital and women's willingness to pay for safe water access: Evidence from African rural areas
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the relationship between women willingness to pay for water access and civic participation as social capital dimension and found that participation in religious activities has a positive role, but only if it is strictly anchored to the progress of society in terms of gender equality improvement.
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Outer Space Mining: Exploring Techno-Utopianism in a Time of Climate Crisis
TL;DR: In this article , the authors explore some of the legal, political, ethical, and environmental dimensions of outer space mining, and compare them with land-based and deep-sea terrestrial mining, including uneven distribution of space mining wealth, the impacts on terrestrial mining communities in the Global South, and the reconceptualization of the mining enclave.
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Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data
TL;DR: This is the essential companion to Jeffrey Wooldridge's widely-used graduate text Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data (MIT Press, 2001).
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
TL;DR: In this paper, an institutional approach to the study of self-organization and self-governance in CPR situations is presented, along with a framework for analysis of selforganizing and selfgoverning CPRs.
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Robust Locally Weighted Regression and Smoothing Scatterplots
TL;DR: Robust locally weighted regression as discussed by the authors is a method for smoothing a scatterplot, in which the fitted value at z k is the value of a polynomial fit to the data using weighted least squares, where the weight for (x i, y i ) is large if x i is close to x k and small if it is not.
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The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups.
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Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion
TL;DR: The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes.
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