Financial markets are perplexed by economic functioning, policies undertaken by the then government which is determined by elections wherein civilians interact and create noise that adds predictable bias while evaluating portfolios. This chapter takes the stand against the possibility of...

This paper develops a theoretical framework to study micro aggression – individuals’ social behaviour and demand for group dominance in modern and post-modern societies as a collective rationality wherein rationality is bounded by incorporating a minimum entropy while assessing signals...

Perceptive scholars have repeatedly drawn policy makers' attention to the pattern of masculine sex ratios in prosperous regions of India. However, direct evidence of the effect of prosperity on sex ratios has not been forthcoming. Such evidence is available nevertheless, through an unlikely...

Child sex ratios pattern in the Asian Population is highly masculine mainly due to birth masculinity and gender bias in child mortality. The vast and the growing literature of female deficit in world population points out the diffusion of child sex ratio pattern in many Asian as well as...

Mapping is a powerful tool for policy analysis. Mapping unveils the hidden trends of the attributes that are not readily apparent in traditional statistical analysis. However, the treatment of spatial effect and the visualization of spatial dependence are rather cursory and often limited to...

This paper aims to explore the regional differences in gender wage gap across the various municipalities in Denmark using data from the revised Statistics Denmark databank for the time period 2008-2014. The determinants used to measure this wage gap include educational attainment of males and...

Fertility differentials among the Hindus and the Muslims in India are a matter of concern, which attracts scholars of different disciplines not only in India, but also outside as well. But surprisingly systematic analysis of fertility pattern among these religion sub groups has not been...

Since the beginning of the last century, sex ratio (male to female) in India is showing disturbing patterns with relatively fewer numbers of females compared to males. The magnitude of juvenile masculinity has increased since 1980s with no sign of reverse. The time trend of juvenile sex ratio...