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ABSTRACT This paper examines trust in women's organizations as a gendered and contextually embedded dimension of institutional trust, drawing on data from 90,192 respondents across 60 countries using the 2017–2022 World Values Survey, the World Bank, and Varieties of Democracy.
Ruby Amanda Oboro‐Offerie
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Do Parents Propagate Inequality Among Children? Evidence From Chinese and Swedish Twins
ABSTRACT Economists have long studied how parental behavior shapes within‐family inequality, yet empirical findings remain mixed. Using twins data from China and Sweden, we examine the predominant mechanisms reported in the literature. Parents in both countries invest similarly during childhood.
Aiday Sikhova +2 more
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Vernacularizing the Best Interests of the Child: Comparative Insights From Three Legal Systems
ABSTRACT The study investigates how the Best Interests of the Child principle in the UN Children's Rights Convention (Article 3) has been adapted in custody disputes in Egypt, Sweden, and Uzbekistan. Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child offers a common normative benchmark, divergent legal cultures shape its domestic meaning: Egypt is ...
Anna Lundberg +3 more
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‘Arranged’ Marriage, Co-Residence and Female Schooling: A Model with Evidence from India [PDF]
We model the consequences of parental control over choice of wives for sons, for parental incentives to educate daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from having married ...
Mukherjee, Diganta +2 more
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Abstract Community participation is recognized as a crucial yet problematic element for addressing many issues in social development. Generating participation, however, is particularly challenging due to existing inequalities within heterogeneous communities, making it difficult for organizations to engage marginalized groups while letting go of their ...
Trish Ruebottom +2 more
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Capitalism and Femicide: an Empirical Inquiry
ABSTRACT This study investigates the claim that capitalism (or neoliberal reforms) is associated with higher rates of femicide, which is often identified as an outcome of the capitalist exploitation of women in parts of the feminist literature. Employing a panel of 163 countries observed between 1990 and 2023, we find no significantly positive ...
Christian Bjørnskov, Martin Rode
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Mediator learning and dowry determination in an arranged marriage setting [PDF]
Recently, Batabyal (2005) has analyzed a game model of dowry determination in which a mediator plays a key role. Batabyal's analysis shows that the equilibrium dowry offers from the bride and the groom optimally trade off the desire to make an assertive ...
Jeremy Bertomeu, Hamid Beladi
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MAHAR PERKAWINAN DENGAN HAFALAN AL-QUR’AN: ANALISIS HERMENEUTIKA HADIS KHALED M. ABOU EL-FADL
The purpose of this study is to analyse the hadith about dowry in marriage. In this hadith, it is mentioned that one form of dowry is memorisation of the verses of the Qur'an, but that is said most recently after there is no more iron ring.
Anis Tilawati
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