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Social capital and views on suicide via the internet: a study using survey data
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
individuals’ views about suicide as conveyed via the Internet. Furthermore, this paper compared the effects of social capital … Internet for a companion with whom to commit suicide. However, such a relation is not observed between social capital in the … externality of suicidal thoughts conveyed via the Internet. …
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Searching for a Room of One's Own in Cyberspace : Datafication and the Global Feminisation of Privacy
Kovacs, Anja - 2023
Since its conceptualisation, the construction of privacy has been deeply gendered, as women and gender and sexual minorities are often at the receiving end of forms of privacy that are subordinating, rather than equalising. In this essay, I argue that, as a result of pervasive datafication, we...
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Online networks and subjective well-being
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2014
the availability of broadband for high-speed Internet. We try to further disentangle the direct effect of SNS use on well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527230
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Network Effects, Ethnic Capital and Immigrants' Earnings Assimilation: Evidence from a Spatial, Hausman-Taylor Estimation
Maani, Sholeh A.; Wang, Xingang; Rogers, Alan - 2015
Do ethnic enclaves assist or hinder immigrants in their economic integration? In this paper we examine the effect of 'ethnic capital' (e.g. ethnic network and ethnic concentration) on immigrants' earnings assimilation. We adopt a "spatial autoregressive network approach" to construct a dynamic...
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O estudo 2010 de carga global da doença: Crítica da formação da ponderação dos indicadores
Melo, Valdir; Nogueira, Roberto Passos - 2015
The intention of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 is to inform and to provide guidance to some public policies. This Working Paper points out some shortcomings of the Study, both as to method and as to usefulness for national policies, by means of a critique of the formation of the...
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Mecanismos para problemas de ação coletiva
Melo, Valdir - 2014
Problems of collective action are at the roots of several public policies and, as shown in this text, there are many mechanisms and tools to be used in order to solve those problems. Although three groups of mechanisms and tools have not been stressed in the usual debates of public policy, they...
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Ação coletiva e o problema de coordenação
Melo, Valdir - 2013
The problem of coordination concerns how to make actions or choices of social agents (individuals or organizations) match in the right way. Some problems of coordination are also problems of separation. In many cases of lack of coordination, communication is faulty or not very reliable....
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The missing link in marine ecosystem-based management
Arbo, Peter; Thanh, Thuy Pham Thi - 2014
The missing link in marine ecosystem-based management Peter Arbo, University of Tromsø ? The Arctic University of Norway Phạm Thị Thanh Thủy, University of Nha Trang The Arctic region is receiving growing attention. There is increasing interest in exploiting the natural resources and the...
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Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia
Trommlerová, Sofia Karina; Klasen, Stephan; Lessmann, … - 2013
Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very little research on the empirical drivers of empowerment. Using custom-made household-level information and using advanced econometric techniques that also correct for endogeneity,...
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Problemas de ação coletiva: Cooperação e deserção
Melo, Valdir - 2013
Many public policies seek to promote, maintain, modify or improve collective actions. The development of a country requires actions that are complex and wide in scope. This and following texts sort out: i) two general classes of problem-situations that lack collective action; and ii) kinds of...
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