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We study Virginia's suffrage from the early 17th century until the American Revolution using an analytical narrative … market dynamics. Indeed, Virginia’s liberal institutions initially served to attract indentured servants from England needed … with slaves. Second, we argue that Virginia's suffrage was also the result of political bargaining influenced by shifting …
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The Commonwealth of Virginia abolished parole and reformed sentencing for all felony of-fenders committed on or after …
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Virginia on reported crime rates. The Commonwealth of Virginia abolished parole and reformed sentencing for all felony offences … committed on or after January 1, 1995. To examine the impact of Virginia's change in legislation on reported crime rates from … Virginia. For other violent crimes such as rape and aggravated assault the evidence of a significant reduction in crime rates …
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-of-wedlock birth rates in Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey and Virginia to trends in states that did not implement family caps or …
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[Introduction ...] This paper aims to draw out useful lessons from PSNP’s policy framework and design, but not to evaluate them. While it refers to some evaluations of PSNP, the main interest in this regard is to understand how these evaluations have influenced policy and design changes to the...
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Food insecurity at the household level has become unacceptable in India where the economy is growing at high rates and food sufficiency is already achieved at the macro-level. Food security has always been an important issue in the Indian political economy and was addressed by numerous...
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This paper analyzes the factors underlying the weakness of the euro. For this purpose, the framework advocated by Clarida and Gali (1994) is used. Within this model, three structural shocks drive the dynamics of the endogenous variables: aggregate supply shocks, aggregate spending shocks, and...
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The prospects for labour supply in Europe are considered. The analysis begins with a so-called labour market balance covering the development on an aggregate level. Estimations to shed light on the relation between unemployment and labour force participation are given in the second part of the...
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If the technological revolution which has taken place over the past decades has lowered information costs and if information costs increase in distance, distance should – ceteris paribus – become less important in determining international bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and...
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In diesem Papier werden die Grundzüge der Strommarktregulierung in den Vereinigten Staaten und in Kalifornien dargestellt. Dabei wird zunächst auf die zentralen Vorgaben des Bundesgesetzgebers (PUHCA, FPA, PURPA, EPAct) und auf die Regulierungspolitik der Bundesregulierungsbehörde für...
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