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Income Inequality in the Face of Climate Change: An Empirical Investigation on Unequal Nations, Vulnerable Regions and India 气候变化下的收入不平等：关于不平等国家、脆弱地区和印度的实证调查

SSRN Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4831042

Swapnanil SenGupta, Aakansha Atal

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Themes Used to Discursively Construct the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya's Newspaper Headlines 肯尼亚报纸头条中用于构建 COVID-19 大流行病的主题

SSRN Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4898524

Brian Munyao Mulonzi, Mugambi Cyrus Ngumo, Lillian Kemunto Omoke

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Birth Order Effects on Education: Insights from Low- and Middle-Income Countries 出生顺序对教育的影响：中低收入国家的启示

SSRN Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4892527

Silvia Mendolia, Olena Stavrunova, Marian Vidal-Fernandez

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The Socioeconomic Gap in the Development of Korean Adolescents' Occupational Aspirations While Approaching the Post-Secondary Transition 韩国青少年中学毕业后职业理想发展中的社会经济差距

SSRN Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4742439

Anna Yong, Sangwoo Lee

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Baseline characteristics among 101,407 people with myocardial infarction over nine-year time period: a population-based study using primary care data 九年期间 101 407 名心肌梗死患者的基线特征：一项利用初级保健数据进行的人口研究

SSRN Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1101/2024.07.17.24310434

C. Arsene

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The Effect of Primary Dealer Constraints on Intermediation in the Treasury Market 一级交易商约束对国债市场中介活动的影响

SSRN Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4862212

Falk Bräuning, Hillary Stein

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CBDC and the Banking System CBDC 和银行系统

SSRN Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4849677

Simone Auer, Nicola Branzoli, Giuseppe Ferrero, Antonio Ilari, Francesco Palazzo, Edoardo Rainone

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Does Online Fundraising Increase Charitable Giving? A Nationwide Field Experiment on Facebook 在线筹款会增加慈善捐赠吗？Facebook 上的全国性实地实验

SSRN Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4739903

M. Adena, Anselm Hager

{"title":"Does Online Fundraising Increase Charitable Giving? A Nationwide Field Experiment on Facebook","authors":"M. Adena, Anselm Hager","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.4739903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4739903","url":null,"abstract":"Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? Using the Facebook advertising tool, we implemented a natural field experiment across Germany, randomly assigning almost 8,000 postal codes to Save the Children fundraising videos or to a pure control. We studied changes in the donation revenue and frequency for Save the Children and other charities by postal code. Our geo-randomized design circumvented many difficulties inherent in studies based on click-through data, especially substitution and measurement issues. We found that (i) video fundraising increased donation revenue and frequency to Save the Children during the campaign and in the subsequent five weeks, that (ii) the campaign was profitable for the fundraiser, and that (iii) the effects were similar independent of video content and impression assignment strategy. However, we also found some crowding out of donations to other similar charities or projects. Finally, we demonstrated that click data may be an inappropriate proxy for donations and recommend that managers use careful experimental designs that can plausibly evaluate the effects of advertising on relevant outcomes. This paper was accepted by Yan Chen, behavioral economics and decision analysis. Funding: M. Adena acknowledges financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Grants 417014946 and CRC TRR 190 (Project 280092119)]. Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2020.00596 .","PeriodicalId":21855,"journal":{"name":"SSRN Electronic Journal","volume":"5 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141642675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Perception of Graduate Students of Nepal towards Online Shopping 尼泊尔研究生对网上购物的看法

SSRN Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2024-07-15 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4717944

Riyaz Poudel

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Adaptive Money Market Interest Rate Strategy Utilizing Control Theory 利用控制论的自适应货币市场利率策略

SSRN Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2024-07-15 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4810469

Yuval Boneh

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