ABSTRACT Purpose: To investigate whether the shareholder concentration and board composition influence export of Brazilian listed firms from 2010 to 2017. Originality/value: The study contributes literature on exports corporate governance by highlighting that companies with good practices, measured ownership/control structure, might increase their exports. This research can serve as a guide for...

Taking 50 companies listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock market from 2015 to 2019 as sample, the DEA-Tobit model is used measure managerial capability two steps, OLS regression test whether affects investment efficiency. We further moderating effect of property rights on relationship between Empirical results show that positively influences Further research indicates that, compared privately-o...

As cost of living rises and people’s wages / salaries do not cover their basic food and dietary needs, interest in parttime farming has risen. Part-time farming activities are being practiced by different people as a food security strategy from vulnerable households. But these part-time farms have had limited success in providing food/nutrition security, increasing incomes and improving well-be...

Complex longitudinal data are commonly analyzed using nonlinearmixed-effects NLME models with a normal distribution. However, a departure fromnormalitymay lead to invalid inference and unreasonable parameter estimates. Some covariates may be measured with substantial errors, and the response observations may also be subjected to left-censoring due to a detection limit. Inferential procedures ca...

Intrahousehold Specialization in Housework in the United States and Denmark Objective: Focusing on housework activities, we construct a gender neutral composite index measure of intrahousehold specialization. We hypothesize that the degree of specialization is influenced by economic notions of efficiency, as well as by time constraints and egalitarian values. Methods: Employing time use data on...

Tax Evasion and Social Interactions The paper extends the standard tax evasion model by allowing for social interactions. In Manski’s (1993) nomenclature, our model takes into account social conformity effects (i.e., endogenous interactions), fairness effects (i.e., exogenous interactions) and sorting effects (i.e., correlated effects). Our model is tested using experimental data. Participants ...

Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on the basis of human capital, distribution of bargaining power, and labor supply coordination within the household can differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market. Using the 2010 American Community Survey, ...