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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria
Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987
inversely related to the economic status of the family, but the measure of economic status used has not always been the same. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438517
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Peer Effects in Sexual Initiation: Separating Social Norms and Partner Supply
Richards, Seth O. - 2010
Sexual activity among adolescents is associated with risks such as pregnancy and STDs, and there is substantial policy interest in how peers influence the timing of sexual initiation. This paper measures separate effects for two social mechanisms--peer-group norms and partner availability--using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439042
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Three essays on family structure and school dropout among adolescents
Farivar, Leila - 2010
endogeneity by using family fixed effects models on these pairs, and also by implementing instrumental variables technique. I … the older sibling was 16 years old, the mother’s age at his birth, and the intactness of his family when he was 14 years … dropout. The shared frailty among siblings of the same family that contaminates the estimates is measured for the parametric …
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A Theory of Strategic Diffusion
Goyal, Sanjeev; Galeotti, Andrea - 2007
The important role of friends, neighbors and colleagues in shaping individual choices has been brought out in a number of studies over the years. The presence of significant ‘local’ influence in shaping individual behavior suggests that firms, governments and developmental agencies should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445057
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Temporal hybridity: Mixing live video footage with instant replay in real time
Juhlin, O; Perry, M; Engström, A; Broth, M - 2010
In this paper we explore the production of streaming media that involves live and recorded content. To examine this, we report on how the production practices and process are conducted through an empirical study of the production of live television, involving the use of live and non-live media...
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Studying the Neurobiology of Social Interaction with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation - The Example of Punishing Unfairness
Knoch, Daria; Nitsche, Michael A.; Fischbacher, Urs; … - 2008
Studying social behavior often requires the simultaneous interaction of many subjects. As yet, however, no painless, noninvasive brain stimulation tool existed that allowed the simultaneous affection of brain processes in many interacting subjects. Here we show that transcranial direct current...
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Manufacturing regeneration through corporate entrepreneurship: Middle managers and organizational innovation
Jones, Oswald - 2005
Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in the International journal of operations and production management, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009455096
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Cost-effectiveness of an atypical conventional antipsychotic in South Africa: An economic evaluation of quetiapine versus haloperidol in the treatment of patients partially respons...
Emsley R.; Booysen F. - 2004
Background. The introduction of a new generation of atypical antipsychotic agents has raised difficult economic and ethical questions, particularly in lower-income countries. The reported tolerability and efficacy advantages of the atypical antipsychotics over their conventional predecessors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480496
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Explore the relationship between Transformational Leadership, Social Interaction and Knowledge Management among Banking Sector of Pakistan
Lashari, Raza Hussain; Rana, Aiza Hussain - 2018
The intention of current empirical research is to explore the relationship between transformational leadership, social interaction and knowledge management among banking sector of Pakistan. The said sector is selected as population of the research. With the help of simple random sampling,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947869