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Inequality in Transition? Educational Stratification and German Unification

Kesler, Christel D. - Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian … - 2001

analysis explores educational inequality at the secondary school level with respect to social origins and gender in four …

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Origins of medieval Exchequer accounting

Jones, Michael John - In: Accounting History Review 19 (2009) 3, pp. 259-285

The origins of the English Exchequer's accounting system have been the subject of controversy since fitz Nigel … century. This article explores the possible origins of the English Exchequer accounting system which have been suggested by …

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The Origins of Modern Nationalism in the North Atlantic Interaction Sphere

Hearn, Jonathan - In: Sociological Research Online 14 (2009) 5, pp. 12-12

This article challenges the standard narrative (e.g. Gellner) regarding the origins of modern nationalism in Europe …

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Social origins, early hardship and obesity: A strong association in women, but not in men ?

Ville, Isabelle; Jusot, Florence; Khlat, Myriam - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

This study investigates the relation between early life conditions and adult obesity in France, using a rich data set collected through the 2003 nationally representative Life History Survey. No salient factor emerged in men, while in women, after controlling for current socio-demographic...

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Do the English Legal Origin Countries have More Dispersed Share Ownership and More Developed Financial Systems?

Sarkar, Prabirjit - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 16 (2009) 1, pp. 73-86

dispersed share ownership in the English law countries than in other countries with different legal origins irrespective of …

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Origins of Menger’s thought in French liberal economists

Campagnolo, Gilles - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 22 (2009) 1, pp. 53-79

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Coexisting stochastic and coherence resonance in a mean-field dynamo model for Earth’s magnetic field reversals

Fischer, M.; Stefani, F.; Gerbeth, G. - In: The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and … 65 (2008) 4, pp. 547-554

Using a spherically symmetric mean-field α<Superscript>2</Superscript>-dynamomodel for Earth’s magnetic field reversals, we show thecoexistence of the noise-induced phenomena coherence resonance and stochastic resonance. Stochastic resonance was recentlyinvoked to explain the 100 kyr periodicity in the distribution...</superscript>

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Bureaucratic Delays and Constraints on Growth

Daniele, Vittorio - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2008) 3

-2004. Secondly, the article examines the relationship between regulation and the underlying legal origins in the various countries … finding of the literature, we ascertain a negative correlation between civil law origins and regulation. Finally, we briefly … discuss the relevance of legal origins as instrumental variables for economic regulation. …

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The origins and evolution of democracy: an exercise in history from a constitutional economics approach

Coll, Sebastian - In: Constitutional Political Economy 19 (2008) 4, pp. 313-355

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Language co-evolved with the rule of law

Knight, Chris - In: Mind and Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and … 7 (2008) 1, pp. 109-128

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