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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Pablo Branas-Garza, Lorenzo Estepa-Mohedano, Diego Jorrat, Victor Orozco, Ericka Rascon-Ramirez
Summary: The study found that using a simplified version of risk preference measurement can address the issues of cost, fairness, and safety in measuring risk preferences.
JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Social
Katarzyna Sekscinska, Joanna Rudzinska-Wojciechowska
Summary: This study aims to build a model of people's risky financial choices when gambling by considering psychological constructs that have been demonstrated to predict such choices in earlier studies. The study found that self-control and net income per capita decrease risk-taking in lotteries, while self-esteem, psychopathy, present hedonistic time perspective, and sense of power enhance gambling risk-taking.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Pankaj Chavan, Ritayan Mitra, Abhinav Sarkar, Aditya Panwar
Summary: This article investigates the validity and reliability of a variant of the Experience Sampling Methods (ESM), the DEBE feedback, which captures student-driven momentary self-reports of cognitive-affective states during a lecture. The study found that variables such as student motivation, learning strategies, academic performance, and prior knowledge did not affect the feedback-giving behavior.
ETR&D-EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Business
Chao Zhu, Yuwei Zhang, Zhen Yi
Summary: This study establishes a state-space model to measure time-varying relative risk aversion using stock market data, finding significant differences in implied risk aversion coefficients across the stock markets of Brazil, Russia, India, and China from January 1, 2009, to December 31, 2020. The model effectively addresses the mismatch between low-frequency risk aversion and high-frequency market data.
EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Aly Kounta, Ahmad El-Aboudi, Macoumba Loum, Elhadj Mamadou Dieng Ngom, Djim M. L. Diongue, Ismaguil Hanade Houmma
Summary: This study contributes to agricultural drought monitoring in the Senegalese Groundnut basin by calculating composite indices using the MODIS sensor. The results show the vulnerability of the basin to climate change.
GEOCARTO INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Birgit Teichmann, Florian Melchior, Andreas Kruse
Summary: Translation and validation of the German versions of the Dementia Knowledge Assessment Tool 2 (DKAT2), Dementia Attitude Scale (DAS), and Confidence in Dementia Scale (CODE) were conducted. The study found that these tools are reliable and valid for measuring knowledge, attitude, and confidence in dementia in the German-speaking general population.
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Alexandra Baron Dorado, Gerusa Gimenez Leal, Rodolfo de Castro Vila
Summary: This study analyzes the information reported in EMAS statements and finds that EMAS is not an effective tool for measuring and reporting companies' progress towards a circular model. The recommendations for policymakers and companies provide useful guidance for establishing specific circular key performance indicators within the EMAS regulation.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Family Studies
Brian Q. Jenkins
Summary: This study identifies two dimensions of equity in risk assessment tools and proposes methods for evaluating the equity of these tools, emphasizing the importance of valid measures of comparative validity. Current methods for measuring equity in child protection risk assessments may exacerbate rather than alleviate inequities.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lobzang Chorol, Sunil Kumar Gupta
Summary: The study used a hybrid ANP-entropy and Holt's exponential smoothing model to evaluate and predict groundwater quality in the trans-Himalayan region. The results identified sources of pollution such as excessive use of fertilizers and wastewater discharges, and revealed potential health risks from fluoride and nitrate. The study also found that children and infants are more vulnerable to these risks.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marko Pozenel, Aljaz Zrnec, Dejan Lavbic
Summary: This study examines the impact of assessors' motivation on the measurability of information quality. The findings show that motivation improves the Intra-Class Correlation (ICC) of IQ, with an average increase of 0.27, resulting in a shift from poor to moderate measurability. There is a positive correlation between motivation level and ICC, and the overall ICC is significantly higher compared to previous studies. The research also identifies trends in ICC for different dimensions of IQ, with completeness and accuracy showing the best results.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Luca Menghini, Cristian Balducci
Summary: The study evaluated the additional contribution of contextualized indicators in predicting individual outcomes related to workplace stress among healthcare workers. The results showed that these contextualized indicators were more predictive of emotional exhaustion compared to commonly used generic psychosocial risk indicators.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Ruo-Nan Wang, Yue-Chi Zhang, Rang-Ke Wu, Bei Li, Chuang-Wei Li, Bo-Tao Yu, Yi-Li Zhang
Summary: This research explores the factors influencing self-precautionary behavior during the pandemic using a combination of social support and risk perception attitude frameworks. The study highlights the combined influence of social capital and risk perception on self-precautionary behavior, and examines the relationships between risk perception, health self-efficacy, and precautionary behaviors during COVID-19. The findings provide insight into the impact of social capital factors on risk perception and health self-efficacy, facilitating early intervention strategies during a pandemic.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jeane dos Santos Ferreira, Maria da Purificacao Nazare Araujo, Rosemary da Rocha Fonseca Barroso, Raquel Braz Assuncao Botelho, Renata Puppin Zandonadi, Antonio Raposo, Heesup Han, Luis Araya-Castillo, Antonio Ariza-Montes, Rita de Cassia Coelho de Almeida Akutsu
Summary: Occupational risk assessment in school food services is important and this study developed and validated instruments for analyzing occupational risks in this field. The instruments included factors such as socioeconomic conditions, food hygiene knowledge and attitudes, perception of occupational risks, and mapping of occupational risks.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Saraswathy Thangarajoo, A. M. Rosliza, Sivalingam Nalliah, Jalina Karim, Shamarina Shohaimi, S. Ramasamy, S. Amin-Nordin
Summary: This study revealed that interprofessional learning training among health professionals can improve their self-assessments, attitudes, and perceptions towards collaborative practices.
BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Muhammad Shoaib, Ayesha Nawal, Roman Zamecnik, Renata Korsakiene, Asad Ur Rehman
Summary: This study examines the impact of GHRM practices and environmental-specific transformational leadership on pro-environmental behavior and sustainable performance in Pakistan's dairy industry. The findings suggest that GHRM practices significantly improve employee environmental behavior, while environmental-specific transformational leadership has a positive effect on pro-environmental behavior but not sustainable performance. The study also reveals that pro-environmental attitude moderates the relationship between GHRM practices, environmental-specific transformational leadership, and pro-environmental behavior.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Hanna Freudenreich, Oliver Musshoff
Summary: The experience of severe harvest losses is associated with greater risk aversion and stronger overweighting of small probabilities. However, the severity of harvest shocks is not related to loss or ambiguity aversion.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Jana Plogmann, Oliver Musshoff, Martin Odening, Matthias Ritter
Summary: This study examines the relationship between land market concentration and farm size changes using data from Brandenburg, Germany. The findings indicate that although concentration rates did not increase over time, there are spatial differences. For farms that remained active during the study period, there is a negative correlation between farm size and relative growth.
Article
Economics
Selina Bruns, Daniel Hermann, Oliver Musshoff
Summary: This study investigates the inconsistency levels of smallholder farmers from rural Cambodia in the HL-task. The results show that cognitive skills are a significant determinant of inconsistency levels, with a statistically significant explanation for men but not for women. Therefore, researchers should conduct comprehensive pre-tests when using abstract risk-elicitation methods among low numeracy subjects.
JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Sven Gruener, Mira Lehberger, Norbert Hirschauer, Oliver Musshoff
Summary: Experiments using university students as participants may not accurately reflect the behavior of other social groups, including farmers. While risk aversion is similar between agricultural students and farmers, positive reciprocity and trust in farmers are influenced by monetary incentives, whereas this effect is not observed in agricultural students. Further research is needed to determine the generalizability of these findings.
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Development Studies
Constantin Johnen, Oliver Musshoff
Summary: Formal digital credit was expected to decrease the gender gap in financial inclusion, but the study reveals that it has actually led to an increase in the gap in Kenya. The gender disparity is largely attributable to socio-economic differences and a lack of heterogeneity in contract terms in the market.
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Development Studies
Maike Linhoff, Oliver Musshoff, Martin C. Parlasca
Summary: Pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa are vulnerable to climate change and severe droughts. Research shows that they prefer lower strike levels and transparency in livestock index insurance contracts, and value trust enhancing features.
CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Economics
Sebastian Jobjoernsson, Henning Schaak, Oliver Musshoff, Tim Friede
Summary: This paper discusses the important issue of ensuring sufficient power to reject hypotheses in economic experiments and introduces methods for testing multiple hypotheses simultaneously in adaptive, two-stage designs to improve experiment power. The paper provides a concise overview of relevant theory and demonstrates the method in three different applications, including a simulation study and analysis of previous experiment data sets. Simulation results highlight the potential for reducing sample sizes while maintaining the power to reject at least one hypothesis and controlling the overall Type I error probability.
EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Economics
Marius Michels, Hao Luo, Paul Johann Weller Von Ahlefeld, Oliver Musshoff
Summary: This study investigates how nudges can improve compliance with a 14-day pre-harvest interval rule in apple production. The findings show that nudging has a preventive effect and reduces non-compliance behavior in a virtual apple farm management game. The results are of interest to policy makers and contribute to the field of (experimental) economics and nudging. Overall, the importance of this study is rated 8 out of 10.
JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Christoph Duden, Oliver Musshoff, Frank Offermann
Summary: It is found that farmers' willingness to pay for risk mitigation is influenced by simplified decision rules, such as the imitation heuristic, shock experience heuristic, and threshold of concern heuristic. Farmers tend to imitate successful risk-loving farmers and assign less weight to low-probability shocks. Lack of personal experience with low-probability events and considering them to be rare leads to lower willingness to pay. Understanding these heuristic preferences can aid in designing better risk management instruments and policies.
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Henning Schaak, Luise Meissner, Oliver Musshoff
Summary: This study examines the nonlinear effect of parcel sizes on farmland prices by replicating Ritter et al.'s research in four different ways. The study contributes to the literature by providing insights into regional differences in farmland price structure and the role of assumptions regarding the functional form for the size-price relationship. The extended replication results reveal variations in the size-price relationship across federal states and highlight the significance of assumptions on functional forms in hedonic regression studies.
APPLIED ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY
(2023)
Article
Development Studies
Yaw Sarfo, Oliver Musshoff, Ron Weber
Summary: This study examines the relationship between financial literacy and farmers' awareness of digital credit in rural Madagascar. The researchers measured farmers' financial literacy through questions related to numeracy, interest compounding, inflation, and risk diversification. The findings demonstrate that financial literacy positively and significantly affects farmers' awareness of digital credit. The study highlights the importance of financial literacy in increasing farmers' awareness of digital credit in rural areas of Madagascar and supports the widely acknowledged view that financial literacy is crucial for individuals' awareness of financial products.
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Eike Florenz Nordmeyer, Oliver Musshoff
Summary: The purpose of this study is to investigate farmers' perceived usefulness of satellite-based index insurance. The results show that German farmers generally perceive satellite-based index insurance as useful. Higher education levels, higher trust in index insurance products, and higher relative weather-related income losses increase farmers' perceived usefulness.
AGRICULTURAL FINANCE REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Eike Florenz Nordmeyer, Oliver Musshoff
Summary: This study surveyed and analyzed the intention of German farmers to adopt drought insurance, finding that factors such as gender, risk attitude, land tenure, previous weather risk impacts, and trust in index insurance products have a significant impact on farmers' intention. The results are important for policymakers, insurers, and researchers focusing on farmer adaptation to climate change.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Heinrich Petri, Dienda Hendrawan, Tobias Bahr, Oliver Musshoff, Meike Wollni, Rosyani Asnawi, Heiko Faust
Summary: Three decades after establishment, smallholder oil palm plantations need replanting to redesign plantations, boost farm productivity, and secure livelihoods. However, replanting requires knowledge, inputs, and financing, and postponement or slow action can worsen socioeconomic and environmental challenges. Access to inputs, finances, and knowledge are paramount challenges that affect smallholders' decisions on when, how, and what to replant.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Annkathrin Wahbi, Yaw Sarfo, Oliver Musshoff
Summary: This article examines the preferences of rural women in Sub-Saharan Africa for digital and conventional credit. The findings show that female respondents have a higher demand for credit than males, but there are no significant differences in willingness to pay for credit attributes. Therefore, designing gender-specific services may not be advisable.
AGRICULTURAL FINANCE REVIEW
(2023)
