On making causal claims: A review and recommendations

J Antonakis, S Bendahan, P Jacquart, R Lalive - The leadership quarterly, 2010 - Elsevier
Social scientists often estimate models from correlational data, where the independent
variable has not been exogenously manipulated; they also make implicit or explicit causal …

The impact of social awareness and lifestyles on household carbon emissions in China

J Li, D Zhang, B Su - Ecological Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
Household carbon emissions account for a significant proportion of the national total
emissions. Using a unique nation-wide survey data, this paper investigates the impact of …

Causality and endogeneity: Problems and solutions

J Antonakis, S Bendahan, P Jacquart… - The Oxford handbook …, 2014 - books.google.com
Unfortunately, most researchers in leadership studies (and management in general) ignore
one key design and estimation problem rendering parameter estimates uninterpretable …

Financial liberalization and stock markets efficiency: New evidence from emerging economies

AB Rejeb, A Boughrara - Emerging markets review, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper aims to assess the impact of financial liberalization on the degree of
informational efficiency in emerging stock markets while considering three types of financial …

The economic impacts of agricultural cooperatives on smallholder farmers in rural China

W Ma, A Abdulai - Agribusiness, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the impacts of agricultural cooperative membership on output price,
gross income, farm profit, and return on investment (ROI) utilizing a recent household survey …

Happiness and 'economic migration': A comparison of Eastern European migrants and stayers

D Bartram - Migration studies, 2013 - academic.oup.com
One might expect economic migrants to experience an increase in happiness after
migration: life in wealthier countries might be better, particularly for migrants who succeed in …

The effects of off‐farm work on fertilizer and pesticide expenditures in China

W Ma, A Abdulai, C Ma - Review of Development Economics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the effects of participation in off‐farm work on farm expenditures on
fertilizer and pesticide, using farm household survey data from China. Simple mean value …

Mobile money adoption, input use, and farm output among smallholder rice farmers in Ghana

A Abdul‐Rahaman, A Abdulai - Agribusiness, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Financial exclusion continues to be a major challenge to smallholder farmers' participation
in agricultural value chains in developing countries. Digitizing procurements and other forms …

Owner‐management, firm age, and productivity in Italian family firms

M Cucculelli, L Mannarino, V Pupo… - Journal of Small …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Using total factor productivity as a measure of corporate performance, we find that Italian
family‐run firms are less productive than firms run by outside managers and the result is …

Multinationals vs. cooperatives: The income and efficiency effects of supply chain governance in India

A Vandeplas, B Minten… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of multinational firms on the domestic agricultural sector in developing countries
is controversial, in particular in India. Relying on a unique set of household‐level data from …