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The collision of feminisms, sexuality, and trafficking in persons in the Caribbean—A place for Kempadoo

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract The existence and development of feminist scholarship and practice have been revisited by feminist anthropologists and sociologists exploring it among the gendered cultural and historical dynamics of the Caribbean. Feminist Caribbeanists’ pioneering efforts that fit within this theoretical family have challenged the Global North status quo to ...
Cherisse Francis
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting Safe Opioid Disposal: Experimental Evidence on Behavioral Messaging With Financial Incentives

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some patients prescribed opioid pills fail to properly dispose of their unused pills, posing a risk for others. We report results from a pre‐registered field experiment testing whether behaviorally informed reminder cards increase participation in a financial incentive program for returning unused opioid pills among U.S. Veterans.
Mattie Toma   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for the Opportunity Cost of Children's Time in Economic Evaluation: Challenges and Frequently Asked Questions

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Economic evaluations carried out from a societal perspective ought to account for the opportunity cost of a range of resources, including those committed by care recipients. People's time is such a resource: it is limited, valuable and it has an opportunity cost that should be reflected in cost calculations.
Lazaros Andronis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Economy of Female Violent Street Crime [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
Our research has led us to the conclusion that women in New York City are becoming more and more likely to involve themselves in violent street crimes. This essay analyzes the developing role of women in violent street crime and poses a model, based on ...
Baskin, Deborah   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Kryptonite for Cryptocurrencies? What Are the Effects of Regulatory Controls on Bitcoin Returns and Volatility?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of regulatory controls on Bitcoin's excess returns and volatility. The paper innovates by proxying changes in the regulatory environment using global Google search volume intensity data. The generated regulatory indices accurately identify episodes of regulatory tightening within cryptocurrency markets.
Robert Mullings
wiley   +1 more source

The attribution of criminal responsibility of the legal person in investment crimes A study in Algerian legislation [PDF]

open access: yesمجلة الاجتهاد للدراسات القانونية والاقتصادية
The role of legal persons has expanded in economic activities. which the investments are one of its appearance. And due to the crimes that emerged as a result of these activities, the issue of attribution of penal responsibility to the legal investor for
ليمام شريف   +1 more
doaj  

An Investigation of the Relationship Between Central Bank Unconventional Monetary Policy and Bitcoin Activity

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates whether the unconventional monetary policy (UMP) measures pursued by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, and the European Central Bank since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) are associated with an appetite for cryptocurrency.
Niamh Wylie, Martha O'Hagan‐Luff
wiley   +1 more source

Bank Income Smoothing, Societal Patriarchy and Policy Uncertainty

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a sample of 745 banks from 26 OECD countries over the period 1997–2023, we investigate the moderating effects of societal patriarchy on bank income smoothing (IS), amidst policy uncertainty (PU). Results indicate that in periods of high PU, banks operating in highly patriarchal societies tend to curtail the use of loan loss provisions ...
Tanveer Ahsan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Induced abortion in the world: 2. Present views on pregnancy termination

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Abortion was practiced in most cultures for millennia, but was often disapproved and banned. The 20th century witnessed a progressive conditional legalization, often with limitations for the duration of pregnancy. Legalizing abortion was driven by multiple factors, including a desire to limit population growth, the emergence of movements that ...
Giuseppe Benagiano   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economics of Crime

open access: yesFoundations and Trends® in Microeconomics, 2006
Erling Eide   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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