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Human Rights Economic Dividends: Estimating the Economic Effects of Preventing Discrimination

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Economies embracing principles like nondiscrimination are presumed to reap significant rewards, while violations incur heavy costs. We call these benefits human rights economic dividends—the economic gains that arise when policymaking is guided by human rights principles.
Jose Cuesta
wiley   +1 more source

Sharing Debt and Houses: Strategies for Surviving Late Capitalism Among Aging Ghanaian Migrants in Canada

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The appropriation of commodities, or decommodification, occurs alongside processes of commodification as part of the diverse economies coexisting with capitalism. Drawing on research among aging Ghanaian immigrants living in Canada, I examine their attempts to decommodify housing within unaffordable housing markets as part of cultural projects
Cati Coe
wiley   +1 more source

Urban violence as a predictor factor of obesity: longitudinal evidence from Sao Paulo, Brazil. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Onita BM, Nery MB, Mielke GI, Pignatti IT, Hallal PC, Florindo AA.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

When should firms watch for cross‐industry competition? A demand‐side perspective

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Research on competitor identification has primarily focused on intra‐industry competition. However, cross‐industry competitive threats are prevalent and consequential. We adopt a consumer‐oriented perspective to examine how consumer perceptions shape de facto competition across industry boundaries.
Ying Li, Samira Reis, Olga M. Khessina
wiley   +1 more source

The heterogeneous impact of public security cameras on safety perceptions in cities: Evidence from China. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Liang P, Liu Y, Guo Y, Zeng F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Minimum Wages and Homelessness

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Economic theory offers competing predictions about how minimum wage policies might affect homelessness. While minimum wages might reduce homelessness by raising incomes, they could also trigger employment disruptions and negative income shocks identified in the literature as proximate causes of homelessness.
Seth J. Hill
wiley   +1 more source

A Path to Unmute the Voice of Youth Adults in the Bronx to Participate in the Crime Prevention Policy Agendas

María Isabel Roldós, Chinedu Hilary Joseph   +1 more
openalex   +1 more source

Vehicle traffic as a determinant of community firearm violence. [PDF]

Inj Epidemiol
Gause EL, McLone S, Dalton C, Morrison C, Jay J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
wiley   +1 more source