The likelihood of cancer emergence is highly dependent on the underlying tissue structure. This article gives evolutionary explanations for why natural selection fails to select for tissue structures that would minimize the likelihood of cancer. In a second step, a mathematical framework is...

How can agricultural inheritance traditions affect structural change and economic development in rural areas? The most prominent historical traditions are primogeniture, where the oldest son inherits the whole farm, and equal partition, where land is split and each heir inherits an equal share....

This book is the culmination of the COST Action CA15212 Citizen Science to Promote Creativity, Scientific Literacy, and Innovation throughout Europe. It represents the final stage of a shared journey taken over the last 4 years. During this relatively short period, our citizen science practices...

Bold et al. (2022b) investigate the effect of providing access to a larger, centralized market where quality is rewarded with a premium on farm productivity and framing incomes from smallholder maize farmers in western Uganda, using a series of randomized experiments and a...

Information on the number of interviewer contacts allows insights into how people's responses to questions on happiness are connected to the difficulty of reaching potential participants. Using the paradata of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this paper continues such research by...

We examine the determinants of the number of attendees and questions and comments in parallel sessions at a large economics conference. We use the annual meeting of the German economics association in 2012 in G ttingen as an empirical case study. We find that the place (close to the coffee and...

The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning, two of which affect the broad decision to learn, while two concern as well the choice...

[Einleitung] Die vorliegende Arbeit dokumentiert ein weiteres Ergebnis aus den Arbeiten zu semantischen Wiki-Systemen, die in der Arbeitsgruppe Künstliche Intelligenz in der Wirtschaftsinformatik (KIWI) in den letzten Jahren durchgeführt wurden. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Ergebnisse der...

In der letzten Zeit häuften sich auch in Deutschland Vorfälle, die in der Öffentlichkeit den Verdacht aufkommen lassen, es sei Korruption involviert. Dass Korruption in Deutschland zum Normalfall wird, lässt sich zwar nach Ansicht von Prof. Dr. Christian Watrin, Universität zu Köln, nicht...