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Wheeler graphs: A framework for BWT-based data structures by Gagie, Travis, Manzini, Giovanni, Sirén, Jouni

“…The famous Burrows–Wheeler Transform (BWT) was originally defined for a single string but variations have been developed for sets of strings, labeled trees, de…”
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Inequality in socio-emotional skills: A cross-cohort comparison by Attanasio, Orazio, Blundell, Richard, Conti, Gabriella, Mason, Giacomo

“…We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart. We construct comparable scales using…”
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The new paradigm of economic complexity by Balland, Pierre-Alexandre, Broekel, Tom, Diodato, Dario, Giuliani, Elisa, Hausmann, Ricardo, O'Clery, Neave, Rigby, David

“…•Economic complexity offers a potentially powerful paradigm to understand key societal issues and challenges of our time.•This brief introduction to economic…”
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Fertilizing growth: Agricultural inputs and their effects in economic development by McArthur, John W., McCord, Gordon C.

“…This paper estimates the role of agronomic inputs in cereal yield improvements and the consequences for countries' processes of structural change. The results…”
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Trends in inequality of opportunity in health over the life cycle: The role of early-life conditions by Kovacic, Matija, Orso, Cristina Elisa

“…This paper explores the evolution of inequality of opportunity in the prevalence of chronic diseases along the life cycle and across different birth cohorts…”
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Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia by Ayalew, Hailemariam, Chamberlin, Jordan, Newman, Carol

“…Smallholder farmers in Africa typically only have access to blanket fertilizer recommendations which are defined over very broad areas and may not be optimal…”
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Using technology to prevent fraud in high stakes national school examinations: Evidence from Indonesia by Berkhout, Emilie, Pradhan, Menno, Rahmawati, Suryadarma, Daniel, Swarnata, Arya

“…Cheating reduces the signaling value of examinations. It also shifts the focus of teachers and students away from learning. Combating widespread cheating is…”
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Evidence on designing sanitation interventions by Augsburg, Britta, Foster, Andrew, Johnson, Terence, Lipscomb, Molly

“…Sanitation is a public good, the responsibility for which is shared between households and the government. Interventions in the sector, therefore, must be…”
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Contract farming and rural transformation: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin by Arouna, Aminou, Michler, Jeffrey D., Lokossou, Jourdain C.

“…Contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on…”
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Analysis of macrosegregation formation and columnar-to-equiaxed transition during solidification of Al-4 wt.%Cu ingot using a 5-phase model by Ahmadein, M, Wu, M, Ludwig, A

“…A 5-phase mixed columnar-equiaxed solidification model was recently introduced to predict the as-cast structure, and a series of laboratory experiments were…”
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Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem by Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab, Guiteras, Raymond P., Levinsohn, James, Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq

“…Addressing public health externalities often requires community-level collective action. Due to social norms, each person’s sanitation investment decisions may…”
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Estimating seed demand in the presence of market frictions: Evidence from an auction experiment in Nigeria by Wossen, Tesfamicheal, Spielman, David J, Alene, Arega D, Abdoulaye, Tahirou

“…This paper measures the effect of seed quality misperceptions on bidding behavior and demand for high-quality seed using an information-provision experiment…”
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The fall of the innovation empire and its possible rise through open science by Gold, E. Richard

“…•Innovations systems have become increasingly inefficient over the last century.•Complexity, poor incentives and balkanization of knowledge are partly…”
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Sanitation and marriage markets in India: Evidence from the Total Sanitation Campaign by Augsburg, Britta, Baquero, Juan P., Gautam, Sanghmitra, Rodriguez-Lesmes, Paul

“…This paper measures the additional value of sanitation within the marriage arrangement. We use data from the Indian human development household survey (IHDS)…”
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Volatile hiring: uncertainty in search and matching models by Den Haan, Wouter J., Freund, Lukas B., Rendahl, Pontus

“…In search-and-matching models, the nonlinear nature of search frictions increases average unemployment rates during periods with higher volatility. These…”
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A weak instrument F-test in linear IV models with multiple endogenous variables by Sanderson, Eleanor, Windmeijer, Frank

“…We consider testing for weak instruments in a model with multiple endogenous variables. Unlike Stock and Yogo (2005), who considered a weak instruments problem…”
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Sensitivity analysis of a strongly-coupled human-based electromechanical cardiac model: Effect of mechanical parameters on physiologically relevant biomarkers by Levrero-Florencio, F., Margara, F., Zacur, E., Bueno-Orovio, A., Wang, Z.J., Santiago, A., Aguado-Sierra, J., Houzeaux, G., Grau, V., Kay, D., Vázquez, M., Ruiz-Baier, R., Rodriguez, B.

“…The human heart beats as a result of multiscale nonlinear dynamics coupling subcellular to whole organ processes, achieving electrophysiologically-driven…”
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Phase transitions may explain why SARS-CoV-2 spreads so fast and why new variants are spreading faster by Phillips, J.C., Moret, Marcelo A., Zebende, Gilney F., Chow, Carson C.

“…The novel coronavirus SARS CoV-2 responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and SARS CoV-1 responsible for the SARS epidemic of 2002-2003 share an ancestor yet…”
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Private and public values of innovation: A patent analysis of synthetic biology by Ribeiro, Barbara, Shapira, Philip

“…•Patent documents are a signalling mechanism about innovation values.•Extant patent valuation literature tends to overlook the public value of innovation.•Both…”
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Digitalization to improve tax compliance: Evidence from VAT e-Invoicing in Peru by Bellon, Matthieu, Dabla-Norris, Era, Khalid, Salma, Lima, Frederico

“…•Following electronic invoicing reform in Peru, firms report higher VAT obligations.•Small firms and sectors with low tax compliance show strongest effects of…”
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