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Poverty, sexual behaviour, gender and HIV infection among young black men and women in Cape Town, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nicoli Nattrass --- Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR), South Africa Brendan Maughan-Brown --- Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, South Africa Jeremy Seekings --- Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR), South Africa Alan Whiteside --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South AfricaThis article contributes methodologically and substantively to the debate over the importance of poverty, sexual behaviour and circumcision in relation to HIV infection, using panel data on young black men and women in Cape Town, South Africa. Methodological challenges included... -
Does social capital really determine poverty? Evidence from a Cameroon household survey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Johannes Tabi Atemnkeng --- Department of Economics and Management, Cameroon Andrew Wujung Vukenkeng --- Department of Economics, CameroonThis paper examines the effect of social capital on household poverty using the 2007 Cameroon household survey. A social capital indicator is constructed using the polychoric principal components analysis method and econometric approaches are employed to correct for potential endogeneity... -
Endogeneity in CEO power: A survey and experiment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Frank Li --- Finance, CanadaThe endogeneity problem has always been one, if not the only, obstacle to understanding the true relationship between different aspects of empirical corporate finance. Variables are typically endogenous, instruments are scarce, and causality relations are complicated. As the first attempt... -
The impact of sustainable investment on firm performance in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Vongani V. Masongweni --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa Beatrice D. Simo-Kengne --- University of Johannesburg, South AfricaPurpose: This study investigates the influence of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores on the financial performance of firms in South Africa across industries. -
Adoption of orange-fleshed sweet potato and technical efficiency nexus in Nigeria: An endogeneity corrected stochastic production frontier approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Adetomiwa Kolapo --- Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria Akeem Abiade Tijani --- Obafemi Awolowo University, NigeriaDue to low productivity and lack of essential nutrients like vitamin A in the traditional white and yellow potato, orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) was introduced to the farmers in Nigeria through a programmed tagged Jumpstarting Project. However, empirical data about...