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Female Education and Child Marriage
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine why the education of young girls has historically lagged behind that of young boys across different countries. Using data from 105 countries during 1990–2020, we discover some evidence that is consistent with the idea that parents in many traditional societies reduce investments in the primary schooling of their daughters after they
Hasan A. Faruq
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Interactions Among Morphology, Word Order, and Syntactic Directionality: Evidence from 55 Languages. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Li W, Liu H.
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Predictors of mask-wearing behavior in Armenia during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a nationwide survey. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthHarutyunyan T +4 more
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The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyzes how the Leningrad Affair, one of the most poorly understood of Joseph Stalin’s purges, was weaponized by Nikita Khrushchev and his comrades‐in‐arms in order to consolidate power during the 1950s and early 1960s. An exposé of how Khrushchev accused four different people of being responsible for the purge over the span of ...
David Brandenberger
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Environmental Politics in North and East Syria/Rojava: A Scoping and Conceptual Literature Review
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article presents a scoping and conceptual literature review on environmental politics in North and East Syria/Rojava. The review aims to synthesize existing academic research in English on the interplay between armed conflict and environmental change in the region, focusing on the Kurdish‐led socio‐political model known as the Autonomous ...
Pinar Dinc +2 more
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Aid to Fight AIDS: An Empirical Analysis of HIV‐Specific Development Aid Effectiveness
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using an excludable instrument for HIV‐specific aid, we investigate its effectiveness on HIV outcomes viz., prevalence and death rates. We theorize that HIV‐specific aid fills the funding gap that prevents governments from committing adequate resources to effectively address the epidemic.
Derek Nolan +1 more
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Internet, Inequality, and Regime Stability
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the link between income inequality and political instability, focusing on the moderating role of Internet penetration. Using data from over 120 countries (1996–2020), we find a conditional relationship: in low‐Internet countries, higher inequality associates with lower instability, likely due to limited political awareness ...
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan +1 more
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