Beekeeping as a technology package disseminated to target farmers in Nigeria seems to suffer setbacks ranging from negative perception of farmers about the technology to technical contents of the package. This study therefore analyzes the technology attributes that influence non adoption of apiary technology packages in Cross River State, Nigeria. Purposive and multist...

The paper explores employment effects of environmental product innovations at the firm level. The empirical analysis is based on the establishment panel of the Institute for Employment Research (Nuremberg). A descriptive analysis shows that more than 50% of the firms in the environmental sector developed new products or improved existing products or services. The most dynamic environmental fiel...

The paper explores employment effects of environmental product innovations at the firm level. The empirical analysis is based on the establishment panel of the Institute for Employment Research (Nuremberg). A descriptive analysis shows that more than 50% of the firms in the environmental sector developed new products or improved existing products or services. The most dynamic environmental fiel...

This article analyzes the effectiveness of designated trauma centers in Florida concerning reduction in the mortality risk of severely injured trauma victims. A bivariate probit model is used to compute the differential impact of two alternative acute care treatment sites. The alternative sites are defined as (1) a nontrauma center (NC) or (2) a designated trauma center (DTC). An instrumental-v...

The purpose of the study is to analyze determinants that affect elderly households’ intention move and a potential destination (between regions or within region), with who resides in Busan, Ulsan, Gyengsangnam-do, by demographic characteristics, residential environmental economic using Korea housing survey. uses bivariate probit model for analysis, considering characteristics dependent variable...

OBJECTIVES We addressed the question of whether use of adequate prenatal care differs between foreign-born and Italian mothers and estimated the extent to which unobservable characteristics bias results. SETTING This study is on primary care and especially on adequate access to prenatal healthcare services by immigrant mothers. PARTICIPANTS Approximately 37,000 mothers of both Italian and f...

We use the 2015–2018 European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions panel data a dynamic bivariate probit model to estimate impact of childbirth risk poverty in 25 countries. both mechanisms, identifying genuine state dependence accounting for feedback effects from past childbirth. find that slightly increases Europe, but some heterogeneities emerge at country level. When disentangli...

Approximately 9 out of 10 high school students who have access to a home computer use that computer to complete school assignments. Do these home computers, however, improve educational outcomes? Using the Computer and Internet Use Supplement to the 2001 Current Population Survey, I explore whether access to home computers increases the likelihood of school enrollment among teenagers who have n...