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A Rough Guide to Global Intellectual Property Pluralism

Chon, Margaret - 2020

Almost everyone can agree that the original connection of intellectual property to trade was for purely economically instrumental purposes but few would have predicted its other consequences, particularly the reshaped relationship of intellectual property’s innovation mandate to the production...

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Unhealthy Behaviours : An International Comparison

Ferretti, Fabrizio Ferro - 2015

In the current global economy, chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have become the leading cause of death and a major health concern for both developed and developing countries. Among other factors, the worldwide spread of NCDs is driven by the globalisation of unhealthy habits. The purpose...

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Religion and Child Health

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2010

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development Supplements (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The primary focus is on the effect of religion on the reported overall health and psychological health of the child....

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The Increasing Weight of Regulation : Countries Combat the Global Obesity Epidemic

Taylor, Allyn L.; Parento, Emily Whelan; Schmidt, Laura - 2014

Obesity is a global epidemic, exacting an enormous human and economic toll. In the absence of a comprehensive global governance strategy, states have increasingly employed a wide array of legal strategies targeting the drivers of obesity. This article identifies recent global trends in...

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Discrimination Today - The Dangers of Pariah-tizing the Elderly during the COVID Pandemic

Billauer, Barbara Pfeffer - 2022

Epidemics invite “pariah-tization.” By this, I mean the process of stigmatizing one marginalized and impotent segment of society as being the group most vulnerable to the disease at hand- without reliable scientific basis. Doing so allows those in power, the young, the rich, the...

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Efficiency analysis of Lloyd’s Syndicates : a comparison of DEA and SFA approaches

Nektarios, Milton; Xenos, Panos; Nektarios, George; … - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 65 (2015) 1/2, pp. 27-46

2004 and 2011. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are used to estimate the efficiency …This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of …, that the average annual efficiency estimates for all Syndicates are plausible and they follow three-year cycles. Secondly …

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Disentangling the efficiency drivers in country-level global health programs : an empirical study

Berenguer, Gemma; Iyer, Ananth V.; Yadav, Prashant - In: Journal of operations management 45 (2016), pp. 30-43

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Do natural disasters affect human capital? : an assessment based on existing empirical evidence

Baez, Javier; Fuente, Alejandro de la; Santos, Indhira - 2010

The last few years have seen a notable increase in the number of studies investigating the causes and effects of natural disasters in many dimensions. This paper seeks to review and assess available empirical evidence on the ex-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation...

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(In)equality in education and economic development

Sauer, Petra; Zagler, Martin - 2014

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The gender gap in mathematics : evidence from a middle-income country

Bharadwaj, Prashant; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Hansen, David; … - 2015

Using a large administrative data set from Chile, we find that, on average, boys perform better than girls in mathematics. In this paper, we document several features of their relative performance. First, we note that the gender gap appears to increase with age (it doubles between fourth grade...

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