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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Solar home systems (SHSs) are celebrated as a technological antidote to sub–Saharan Africa's chronic electricity deficits, yet the financial and social mechanisms that move them from warehouse to household remain underexplored. Drawing on 157 interviews with SHS owners in Tanzania and Malawi, this study examines the financial pathways used to ...
Nathanael Ojong +2 more
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Teaching financial crises: A leverage experiment
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.Abstract College students often struggle to understand the prevalence of asset price bubbles and the difficulty of timing asset purchases and sales. Even economics students are consistently surprised when bubbles burst. These breaks can have real macroeconomic effects, particularly when the price surge is fueled by leverage.
Lee Coppock, Daniel Harper, Charles Holt
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Language as “Resource”? Why Science Education's Raciolinguistic Histories Matter Today
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Our study explores how US science education has evaluated multilingual students' languages as deficits and/or assets by comparing them against normative ideals. As a raciolinguistic genealogy, the study situates current premises of language in science education (e.g., as problem versus resource) within epistemological practices shaping the ...
Kathryn L. Kirchgasler, Diego Román
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Local economic resilience and economic specialization in Greece during the crisis
Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This paper scrutinizes the issue of economic resilience, aiming to detect the existence of a systematic link with economic specialization. To this end, the paper conducts an empirical analysis at the local (i.e., municipal) level of Greece during the economic crisis period (2009–2015), providing cartographic visualizations and spatial ...
Panagiotis Artelaris +2 more
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State of the Field: The History of Masculinities
History, EarlyView.Abstract This State of the Field article discusses how, when and why the history of masculinities has emerged since the 1980s, and why it continues to be an important research field today. The article begins with the field's multiple origin stories and then discusses its expansion in chronology, geography and theme, as well as newer directions for ...
ERICA L. FRASER
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Henry George advocated for capturing land value increases for public ends. The active approach of public authorities organizing and financing land development can help capture higher land value increases, as Hartman and Spit indicate. However, this approach hardly happens in developing countries, where the coalition of private developers and ...
Nannan Xu
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News media coverage and the predictability of house prices
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This article introduces new housing‐media‐attention indices for the 50 U.S. states based on the Bloomberg Terminal News Trends (NT) function, which collects articles from various news and social media sources and identifies their content using artificial intelligence tools.
Oguzhan Cepni
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Insect Science, EarlyView.Strict patterns of co‐divergence have rarely been documented other than among organisms and their symbionts. In this paper, using a molecular approach, we inferr the population‐level phylogenies of a Mediterranean ant species Pheidole pallidula and its nest parasite, the obligate myrmecophilous beetle Paussus favieri. We then investigate the role of co‐
Davide Bergamaschi +2 more
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Team photo‐diaries: Making places, people, and power more visible
Geographical Research, EarlyView.The article reflects on the use of research associates‐generated photo‐diaries during household census data collection in Northwest Cambodia. Initially a training tool for Cambodian researchers, they became essential for data collection and collaboration between Cambodian and Australian teams, highlighting ethical challenges and power imbalances in ...
Ariane Utomo +18 more
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