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An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of … world, causes BCM to produce consensus which leaves us with the open problem of explaining the emergence and sustainance of … opinion clusters and polarisation. We investigate the role of heterogeneous priors in opinion formation, introduce the concept …
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Understanding the malleability of gender norms is crucial to address gender inequalities. We study the effect of parenting daughters on a gender role attitude relating to the traditional male breadwinner model: whether the husband should earn and the wife stay at home. We control for other...
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There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans. This paper suggests a new way to think about this famous problem. I argue that, for an evolutionary biologist as well as a quantitative social scientist, the triangle of two...
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There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans. This paper suggests a new way to think about this famous problem. I argue that, for an evolutionary biologist as well as a quantitative social scientist, the triangle of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884231
, specificity, and the complexity, are analyzed by using firm level data in Turkey. This study has three main conclusions. As for …
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I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or simply the BUSE index. It expresses the number of "buy"-searches for each "sell"-search which,...
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trying to explain their emergence. The mainstream approach to road traffic monitoring is based on crowdsourcing roaming GPS …
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In a bold and risky political move the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras called for a referendum on June 27 2015 quitting ongoing negotiations with Greece's creditors in Brussels. The referendum framed as a yes or no question asked the Greek voters to decide whether or not they approve or...
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On February 20 2015 Irish Premier Enda Kenny confirmed that a "yes-no" referendum on same sex marriage would be held on May 22 of the same year. A yes vote would legalise same sex marriage in Ireland. As the Irish premier put it, the vote was about "tolerance, respect and sensitivity". The...
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shares, and use this measure to estimate city and activity complexity. Our approach extends discrete measures used in … quality between geographic areas with different sizes. We examine the contribution of relatedness and complexity to urban … dense with related activities. Relatedness and complexity appear to be most relevant for analysing how large, complex cities …
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