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Communitarianism, Oppositional Cultures, and Human Capital Contagion: Theory and Evidence from Formal versus Koranic Education
Dev, Pritha; Mberu, Blessing; Pongou, Roland - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
investment, showing a contagion or herding effect. Furthermore, we find that ethnic and group fragmentation increases the demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108835
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Fidelity Networks and Long-Run Trends in HIV/AIDS Gender Gaps
Pongou, Roland; Serrano, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
explains the HIV/AIDS gender gap by the configuration of sexual networks. Each individual desires sexual relationships with … relations. The first process leads to egalitarian pairwise stable networks in the long run, and HIV/AIDS is equally prevalent … among men and women. The second process leads to anti-egalitarian pairwise stable networks reflecting male domination, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110508
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Language and argumentation in the controversy economic
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article offers an approach to the general structure of the controversy in economy. In our case we adopted a perspective to study a particular aspect of the rhetoric that comes from the context of a particular controversy: the controversy on the advantages of the free commerce between Daly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533260
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Rhetoric of independece: bicentennial Colombia 1810 - 2010
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper develops a hypothesis of the economist Albert Hirschman in: The Rhetoric of Reaction, Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy (Harvard 1991) regarding the history of the Independence of Colombia. The Rhetoric of Independence extended the geographical worldview of the people of Spanish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602756
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The Intra-household Economics of Polygyny: Fertility and Child Mortality in Rural Mali
Kazianga, Harounan; Klonner, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child … data from Demographic and Health Surveys in rural Mali, where polygyny rates among married women are close to 50 per cent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991286
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Research and Science Today Supplement No.1(3)/2012
Bădilă, Andreea Iuliana; Sucilă căs. Pahoni, Cipriana; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259935
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The logic of the violence in the civil war: the armed conflict in Colombia
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the Logic of Violence in the Civil War. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author's scientific output. A context of conflicts that includes new expressions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873551
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Measuring social capital with a myograph
Roberto, Censolo; Laila, Craighero; Luciano, Fadiga; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We study the behavior of 12 pairs of undergraduate students while they were involved in a simple coordination game requiring motor interaction. Three experimental conditions were defined according to whether a monetary prize was given to both or only one subject, if the couple was in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835965
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Dissecting the Act of God: An Exploration of the Effect of Religion on Economic Activity
Carpantier, Jean-Francois; Litina, Anastasia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This research establishes that religiosity has a persistent effect on economic outcomes. First we use a sample of migrants in the US to establish that religiosity at the country of origin has a long lasting effect on the religiosity of migrants. Second, exploiting variations in the inherited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109803
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Fragments on black swan: money, credit and finance in The Arcades Project of Walter Benjamin
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The main objective of this paper is to present a reading of The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin in the context of the financial crisis, in particular, reflect from a few fragments of Benjamin's work appear to lie around a Black Swan. The recovery of the fragments of The Arcades seems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622248