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Cornell SC Johnson College of Business: Recent submissions
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Do Formal Workers Use Informal Search Methods? Investigating Labor Search in Mexico.
(2022-12)This study examines how formal sector employment affects the worker’s job search methods in Mexico. It studies how each worker and workplace characteristic is associated with the probability of using each job search method ... -
DO MATERNAL SPOT FEEDING PROGRAMS EFFECT BIRTH WEIGHT? EVIDENCE FROM ANDHRA PRADESH AND TELANGANA IN INDIA
(2022-12)The erstwhile state of Andhra Pradesh became the first state in India to provide one full meal per day to pregnant woman as a part of the supplementary nutrition program of the Integrated Child Development Services in 2013. ... -
WOMEN’S GOLD: THE SHEA BUTTER INDUSTRY IN GHANA AND HOW EMPOWERMENT INFLUENCES EMPLOYMENT
(2022-12)This paper explores the relationship between empowerment and a woman's employment type. The research is based on a field survey data of 795 women in the Northern Region of Ghana. The paper seeks to evaluate two things. ... -
POVERTY, INFECTIONS DISEASE CONTROL, AND EXTERNALITIES IN RURAL ECONOMIES
(2022-12)Infectious disease exposure often covaries with labor productivity and incomes in ways that can trap people in a cycle of ill health and poverty. We explicitly model the interaction between agricultural households and their ... -
Emerging Markets Report 2022: Reinventing Global Value Chains
(Emerging markets Institute, 2022-11-04)The global economy has gone from one crisis to another over the past few years. The COVID pandemic was not over yet when the war in Ukraine erupted, adding to the uncertainty of the times. The October 2022 World Bank/IMF ... -
China’s Import Tariffs on U.S. Soybean Exports 2018-2022: Effects on Information Transfer between Markets in China, the U.S. and Brazil
(2023-03)This paper investigates the impacts of China’s import tariffs on U.S. soybean exports in mid-2008 on price diffusion and information transfer relationships between futures prices in the U.S., China, and Brazil. About a ... -
Measurement of Frozen versus Fresh Food Waste at the Retail and Consumer Levels: A Critical Review and Meta Analysis
(2022-12)Food waste at retail and consumer levels is staggering, with estimates as high as 35 percent of purchases with most discarded in landfills. This study summarizes the literature that shows retail and consumer waste rates ... -
ESSAYS ON PATENTS AND INNOVATION DISCLOSURE STRATEGY
(2022-05)Innovation is essential to firm performance and economic growth. During each stage of the innovation process within firms, there is much valuable information that firms could choose to disclose to the public. This dissertation ... -
Essays on Environmental and Urban Economics
(2022-05)The thesis consists of three independent chapters on environmental and urban economics. A central theme explored in this thesis is individuals' responses to environmental challenges.The first chapter, "The Healthcare Cost ... -
SOCIAL MEDIA GENERIC ADVERTISEMENTS AND DEMAND FOR CALIFORNIA WALNUTS
(2022-05)We designed an online field experiment to examine the impact of social–media generic advertising related to walnuts on consumers’ purchasing behavior and willingness to pay (WTP). Volunteers (n = 751) were assigned into ...
