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The causal effect of the great recession on childlessness of white American women
Comolli, Chiara Ludovica; Bernardi, Fabrizio - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-24
about the age of 40 in the US. …
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Are COVID fatalities in the US higher than in the EU, and if so, why?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020
crisis and find that US states had more COVID-related deaths than EU countries. When taking account of demographic, economic ….3 % higher in a US state than in an EU country. The US/EU gap disappears when we take account of health-policy related factors … US fatalities measured either 50 or 100 days after the epidemic started in a nation/state. …
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The urban villagers : group and class in the life of Italian-Americans
Gans, Herbert J. - 1962
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The urban crucible : social change, political consciousness, and the origins of the American revolution
Nash, Gary B. - 1979
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Downtown USA : urban design in nine American cities
Halpern, Kenneth - 1978
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Moving to opportunity in Boston : early results of a randomized mobility experiment
Katz, Lawrence F.; Kling, Jeffrey R.; Liebman, Jeffrey B. - 2000
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How small is zero price? : The true value of free products
Shampaner, Kristina (contributor); Ariely, Dan (contributor) - 2006
When faced with a choice of selecting one of several available products (or possibly buying nothing), a standard theoretical perspective suggests that the option with the highest benefitcost difference will be chosen. This analysis applies to all prices including the price of zero. In contrast,...
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Migration, violence and welfare programmes in rural Colombia
Mesnard, Alice (contributor) - 2009
This paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence. By matching detailed retrospective data on violence levels in Colombian rural municipalities with a household survey collected for the evaluation of the "Familias en Acción" welfare...
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Entropy, function and evolution : naturalizing Peircian semiosis
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 2010
Cybersemiotics claims that the standard uses of the Shannon information concept as applied on systems with cognition and communication fail to account for the semantic dimension of semiosis. This argument does not properly recognize the role of entropy in semiosis. Entropy comes into full play...
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Participación en organizaciones sociales en Chile : ¿una alternativa para mejorar el bienestar económico de los hogares?
Salazar, César A.; Jaime, Mónica Marcela - In: Estudios de economía 36 (2009) 2, pp. 191-215
This research aims to find the determinants of participation on social organizations in Chile through a social capital approach, as well as to evaluate the existence of a positive effect between participation and household welfare. In the case of economic and local organizations several...
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