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📈 economics

Explaining the Gap between Farmers' Risk Perception, Intention, and Adoption Behavior of Risk Management Strategies

This study of Iranian farmers reveals that despite high risk perception and strong intentions to adopt risk management strategies, actual adoption remains critically low due to significant financial and institutional barriers, indicating that psychological interventions alone are insufficient without concurrent structural support in credit access, infrastructure, and government services.

Hassan Taheri, Abas Abdeshahi, Abbas Mirzaei, Mostafa Mardani Najafabadi2026-09-09
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Internet Use and Consumption Structure Upgrading in Rural China: Adoption Dynamics and Distributional Effects from a Five-Wave Household Panel

Using five waves of household panel data from 2014 to 2022, this study demonstrates that internet adoption in rural China significantly upgrades consumption structures by increasing development and enjoyment spending, with effects that are most pronounced among women, less-educated users, and residents of western regions, driven primarily by reduced search costs, income growth, and online shopping participation.

Haotian Wu, Ziwei Gu, Ziqiang Zhang2026-09-09
📈 economics

A Global Dataset of Cost-of-illness for Climate-sensitive Diseases through Automated Literature Extraction

This paper presents a globally comparable, harmonized dataset of cost-of-illness for over 80 climate-sensitive diseases, derived from nearly 900 publications using automated large language model extraction and a three-tier confidence scoring framework to facilitate robust cross-country economic modeling and policy design.

Congkai Hong, Han Zhao, Zhenping Zhao, Wenxi Tang, Jianxiang Shen, Rentao Zhang, Wanxin Zhou, Mingxin Guo, Hanyue Hua, H (…)2026-09-09
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Chinese Economic Activity, Exchange Rates and Russia-China Trade: Evidence Consistent with an Asymmetric Structural Reorientation after 2022 Russia-China Economic Observatory

This paper analyzes monthly data from 2019 to 2025 to determine whether Chinese manufacturing activity, the CNY/RUB exchange rate, and oil prices structurally reoriented their relationship with Russia-China trade after 2022, finding evidence of asymmetric post-2022 structural instability in import equations while noting that the observed correlations do not establish causal effects.

Alen Yukdin2026-09-09
📈 economics

When Virtual Reality Is Worth the Investment: A Two-Layer Systematic Review of Global Research, Economic Evidence, and Cost–Value Decision Making

This two-layer systematic review reveals a critical disconnect between high global research output in virtual reality and the scarcity of robust economic evidence, demonstrating that while VR often reduces specific operational costs or improves outcomes, it rarely lowers total first-use costs and requires a structured decision framework to justify investment, particularly given the notable absence of direct economic evaluations for major research-producing nations like China, Japan, and South Korea.

Elena Popescu2026-09-09