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Synthese: Rapport 2014 Sur La Nutrition Mondiale: Mesures et redevabilite en vue daccelerer les progres mondiaux en matiere de nutrition
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2014
Une alimentation équilibrée est le socle sur lequel reposent des vies saines, des moyens de subsistance solides et durables et des économies prospères. En l’absence de ce socle, leur construction s’appuie sur des sables mouvants. Les enfants souffrant d’un retard de croissance ne...
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Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2014
The causes of people’s political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...
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Femininity, Childhood and the Non-Making of a Sporting Celebrity: The Beth Tweddle Case
Cohen, Rachel Lara - In: Sociological Research Online 18 (2013) 3, pp. 19-19
underpinning the gender-designation of gymnastics, and b) the relative invisibility of a core audience for the sport: young girls …Gymnastics is regularly classified as a feminine-appropriate sport, embodying grace and elegance. Furthermore, it is … the Olympic sport which has regularly produced female sporting celebrities. Beth Tweddle is the most successful British …
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Passive, Heterosexual and Female: Constructing Appropriate Childhoods in the 'Sexualisation of Childhood' Debate
Clark, Jessica - In: Sociological Research Online 18 (2013) 2, pp. 13-13
negative reading of contemporary media and consumer cultures, the concepts of gender and sexuality remain un …
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Parenting, Play and the Work-Family Interaction
Ba', Stefano - In: Sociological Research Online 19 (2014) 2, pp. 7-7
€˜parent-initiated play’ will be introduced and used to find that play and activities with children are linked to asymmetric gender practices …
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Cognitive, Affective and Eudemonic Well-Being in Later Life: Measurement Equivalence over Gender and Life Stage
Vanhoutte, Bram; Nazroo, James - In: Sociological Research Online 19 (2014) 2, pp. 4-4
order structure is neutral to gender in its measurement. A lower influence of feeling energetic on self-actualisation, and …-being over gender and life stage: men tend to have a higher level of well-being than women, and well-being is lower in the fourth …
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Working at Pleasure in Young Women’s Alcohol Consumption: A Participatory Visual Ethnography
Bancroft, Angus; Zimpfer, Mariah Jade; Murray, Orla; … - In: Sociological Research Online 19 (2014) 3, pp. 20-20
This paper reports on a participatory ethnography conducted with undergraduate students. It examined the rituals and habits through which they constructed their intoxication culture. Students used video recording devices such as smartphones to collect data about aspects of their intoxication...
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Gender, education and terrorism
MaleÄková, Jitka; Dragana Stanišić - In: International Journal of Education Economics and Development 5 (2014) 1, pp. 40-65
This paper examines the effect of gender and education on support for and the occurrence of international terrorism. We …
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Do services reduce gender inequality in labor markets? The service sector, knnowledge-intensive services and the gender pay gap
Dueñas, Diego; Iglesias, Carlos; Llorente, Raquel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
important factors that can improve employment opportunities for women, reducing labor by gender differences. The objective of … ICTs such as Knowledge Intensive Services (KIS) are changing some of the basics of labor gender differences. To do it: a …
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Gender Gaps in Completed Fertility
Field, Erica; Molitor, Vera; Tertilt, Michèle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The most commonly used measure of reproductive behavior is the total fertility rate (TFR), which is a measure of the number of children born per woman. However, almost no work exists measuring the fertility behavior of men. In this paper we use survey data from several recent waves of the...
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