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Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, 2017 Both the United States and the Brazilian Catholic Church played decisive roles during the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil between 1964 and 1985.
Sigifredo Romero
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Nationalism, Myth and Reinterpretation of History: The Neglected Case of Interwar Yugoslavia [PDF]
, 2012 This article discusses and challenges some popular myths and perceptions about interwar Yugoslavia in post-socialist (and post-Yugoslav) Serbia. These include discourses that blame ‘others’ – ‘treacherous’ Croats and other non-Serbs, the ‘perfidious ...
Djokic, Dejan
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Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction The COVID‐19 pandemic significantly disrupted adolescents' lives, leading to increased stress and anxiety rates globally. Although existing research highlights the necessity of understanding the increased rates of anxiety in adolescents during and after the pandemic, it offers little insight into the risk and protective factors ...
Buket Kara +5 more
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HEAD OF FRANCO STATE: FROM THE "SOVEREIGN" DICTATOR TO THE "INSTITUTIONALIZED" RULER
RUDN Journal of Law, 2018 The article is devoted to the development of the institute of the head of state in Spain in 1939-1975. The importance of the analysis is determined by the increased role of the heads of state in domestic and international affairs and the popularity of ...
Tatiana A Alexeeva
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On the Optimality of a Class of LP-based Algorithms [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper we will be concerned with a class of packing and covering problems which includes Vertex Cover and Independent Set. Typically, one can write an LP relaxation and then round the solution.
Kumar, Amit +3 more
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Regression Discontinuity in Serial Dictatorship: Achievement Effects at Chicago's Exam Schools
, 2017 Many school and college admission systems use centralized mechanisms to allocate seats based on applicant preferences and school priorities. When tie-breaking uses non-randomly assigned criteria like distance or a test score, applicants with the same ...
Atila Abdulkadroǧlu +4 more
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A Local Projections Approach to Difference‐in‐Differences
Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We propose a local projections (LPs)‐based difference‐in‐differences (DiD) approach that subsumes many of the recent solutions proposed in the literature to address possible biases arising from negative weighting. We combine LPs with a flexible “clean control” condition to define appropriate sets of treated and control units.
Arindrajit Dube +3 more
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Hardness of Graph Pricing through Generalized Max-Dicut
, 2014 The Graph Pricing problem is among the fundamental problems whose approximability is not well-understood. While there is a simple combinatorial 1/4-approximation algorithm, the best hardness result remains at 1/2 assuming the Unique Games Conjecture (UGC)
Chalermsook P. +6 more
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Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the literature on workplace mistreatment has grown, so too have the number of constructs proposed to represent distinctive forms of mistreatment. However, considerable disagreement exists surrounding whether these proposed constructs represent unique manifestations of workplace mistreatment or represent a single underlying phenomenon.
Lindsay Y. Dhanani, Sean M. Bogart
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Leader reputation and default in sovereign debt [PDF]
, 2009 This paper compares default incentives in competitive sovereign debt markets when leaders can be either democratically elected or dictators. When leaders can be replaced as in democracies, the incentives for repayment are mainly the ego rents from office
Dhillon, Amrita, Sjöström, Tomas
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