Does E-commerce participation increase the use intensity of organic fertilizers in fruit production?-Evidence from China. by Cuicui Wang, Hua Wang, Chunping Xia, Abdelrahman Ali

“…We employed an endogenous switching regression (ESR) model to address selectivity bias caused by observed and unobserved factors. …”
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Representativeness of individual-level data in COVID-19 phone surveys: Findings from Sub-Saharan Africa by Joshua Brubaker, Talip Kilic, Philip Wollburg

“…However, reweighting increases the variance of the estimates and, in most cases, fails to overcome selection biases. This indicates limitations to deriving representative individual-level estimates from phone survey data. …”
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FUZZY PARAMETRIC SAMPLE SELECTION MODELS OF MARRIED WOMEN FOR NON-PARTICIPATION BY MLE : CASE STUDY THE MPFS-1994 by L. Muhamad Safiih, Yaya Sudarya Triana

“…Models with sample-selection biases are widely used in various fields of economics such as labour economics (see Maddala, Amemiya, and Mroz). …”
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Informal and Formal Wage Differences Based on Cohorts in Indonesia by Santoso, Rokhedi Priyo, Sahadewo, Gumilang Aryo, Sugiyanto, Catur, Setiastuti, Sekar Utami

“…This study used the threefold Heckman selection-biased corrected Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition technique. …”
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Invisible ship tracks show large cloud sensitivity to aerosol by Manshausen, P, Watson-Parris, D, Christensen, M, Jalkanen, J-P, Stier, P

“…Our results indicate that previous studies of ship tracks were suffering from selection biases by focusing only on visible tracks from satellite imagery. …”

Comparison of allogeneic transplant versus chemotherapy for relapsed childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in the MRC UKALL R1 trial. MRC Childhood Leukaemia Working Party. by Harrison, G, Richards, S, Lawson, S, Darbyshire, P, Pinkerton, R, Stevens, R, Oakhill, A, Eden, O

“…PATIENTS AND METHODS: Analyses comparing the outcome of related donor allogeneic BMT (related allograft) with chemotherapy are unreliable because of selection biases. To avoid these biases, the MRC UKALL R1 trial was analysed by HLA-matched donor availability. …”

'Motherhood penalty' and 'fatherhood premium'? Fertility effects on parents in China by Zheng Mu, Yu Xie

“…<b>Background</b>: Many previous empirical findings on 'motherhood penalty' and 'fatherhood premium' remain inconclusive due to potential selection biases. China's regional variation in exemptions to the one-child policy enables us to use the gender of the first child as a powerful instrumental variable (IV) in identifying the gendered fertility effects. …”
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Screening and Assessing Biological Differences Among Oomycete-Parasitic Trichoderma asperellum Isolates for Biological Control Development by Matthew A. Tancos, Jami L. Thomas, Timothy L. Widmer

“…Screening numerous biological features is important to the selection and development of promising microbial-based biocontrol agents; however, determining the presence or absence of individual parasitism-associated genes could lead to selective biases if relied on during the initial screening phase. …”
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Associations between Mobile Internet Use and Self-Rated and Mental Health of the Chinese Population: Evidence from China Family Panel Studies 2020 by Haifeng Ding, Chengsu Zhang, Wan Xiong

“…Furthermore, this study addresses the endogeneity problem using the propensity-score matching model, which is shown to be better at eliminating sample selectivity bias. If endogeneity is not addressed, the negative association with mobile Internet use on residents’ self-rated health will be underestimated and its positive association with their mental health will be overestimated. …”
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How Does Rural–Urban Migration Experience Affect Arable Land Use? Evidence from 2293 Farmers in China by Qianqian Chen, Ruifa Hu, Yiduo Sun, Chao Zhang

“…The results show that after accounting for the self-selectivity bias, the rural–urban migration experience significantly increases farmers’ arable land use by 22%. …”
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The Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database reports enable evidence-based personal precision health care by Pål Møller

“…Although PLSD is assumption-free, as with any study the ascertainment procedures used to identify the study cohort will introduce selection biases which have to be declared and considered in detail in order to provide robust and valid results. …”
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T lymphocyte density and distribution in human colorectal mucosa, and inefficiency of current cell isolation protocols. by Gloria Cuevas Preza, Otto O Yang, Julie Elliott, Peter A Anton, Maria T Ochoa

“…Further studies will determine if this reflects a selective bias in only CD3+, CD4+ and CD8+ T cells or can be generalized to all flow-analyzed cells from mucosal tissues for phenotyping and functional testing.…”
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Users of the main smartphone operating systems (iOS, Android) differ only little in personality. by Friedrich M Götz, Stefan Stieger, Ulf-Dietrich Reips

“…However, empirical evidence investigating any selection biases that might result thereof is scarce. Henceforth, we conducted two studies drawing from a large multi-national (Study 1; N = 1,081) and a German-speaking sample (Study 2; N = 2,438). …”
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How does owning commercial housing affect the subjective well-being of rural-urban migrants?--The mediating effect of housing assets and the moderating effect of debt. by Wenlong Lou, Cuicui Du, Yuhua Qiao

“…The results of the study show that: (1) Owning commercial housing can significantly enhances the subjective well-being(SWB) of rural-urban migrants, and the findings remain robust after using alternative model, adjusting the sample size, correcting for sample selectivity bias using propensity score matching(PSM), and controlling for potential endogeneity bias combining instrumental variables and conditional mixed process(CMP); (2) The effect of owning commercial housing on the subjective well-being(SWB) of the first generation rural-urban migrants, rural-urban migrants in the eastern and central regions, and those who obtained housing before the rapid rise in house prices is more pronounced; (3) Commercial housing acts on the subjective well-being(SWB) of rural-urban migrants through the mediating effect of housing assets, and there is some regional variation in the mediating effect of housing assets. …”
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EROSITA: AGN SCIENCE, BACKGROUND DETERMINATION, AND OPTICAL FOLLOW-UP SPECTROSCOPY by Thomas Boller

“…The fully capitalize on the eROSITA potential, a dedicated spectroscopic follow-up program is needed. 4MOST is the ideal instrument to secure the scientific success of the eROSITA X-ray survey and to overcome the small sample sizes together with selection biases that plagued past samples. The aim is to have the instrument commissioned in 2017, well matched to the data releases of eROSITA and Gaia. …”
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Facebook Ads Manager as a Recruitment Tool for a Health and Safety Survey of Farm Mothers: Pilot Study by Burke, Richard R, Weichelt, Bryan P, Namkoong, Kang

“…However, social media recruitment mirrors traditional recruitment methods in its limitations, exhibiting geographic, response, and self-selection biases that need to be addressed.…”
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Cocoa farmer’s perception on climate variability and its effects on adaptation strategies in the Suaman district of western region, Ghana by Dennis Sedem Ehiakpor, Gideon Danso-Abbeam, Justice Edward Baah

“…The study estimated Heckman’s treatment effect model that corrected the presence of selectivity bias in the sample. From the result, 69.5% of the farmers perceived an increase in the average temperature while 22.5% perceived an increase in the average rainfall over the years. …”
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Cesarean deliveries and maternal weight retention by Kandice A. Kapinos, Olga Yakusheva, Marianne Weiss

“…Previous literature, however, typically does not address selection biases stemming from correlations of pre-pregnancy weight and reproductive health with Cesarean delivery. …”
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Effects of government cash subsidies on health risk behaviors of the rural elderly: Evidence from social pension expansions in China by Zili Zhang, Shizheng Dong, Xuanxuan Zhang

“…In order to solve possible sample selection biases, the Propensity Score Matching with Differencein- Differences (PSM-DID) approach was used. …”
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Vitamin C Intake and Pancreatic Cancer Risk: A Meta-Analysis of Published Case-Control and Cohort Studies. by Yong-Fei Hua, Gao-Qing Wang, Wei Jiang, Jing Huang, Guo-Chong Chen, Cai-De Lu

“…The strong inverse association observed in case-control studies may be affected by biases (eg, recall and selection biases) that particularly affect case-control studies and/or potential publication bias. …”
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