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Economic trends in Qing China: A response to Rawski's bold claims
Abstract Thomas Rawski challenges recent quantitative studies that find declining Chinese GDP per capita during 1700–1850 and suggests that the error margins around the component series for per capita grain supply should be widened, which would make it possible to accommodate stagnation, growth or decline.
Stephen Broadberry +2 more
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Food Insecurity, Neighborhood Disorder, and Homelessness among People with Serious Mental Illness. [PDF]
Kleinman S +9 more
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Progress and Poverty: Walter Rodney's Legacy
ABSTRACT The conventional view of human progress states that the more humanity makes progress, the less poverty is entrenched. But, global development is currently characterized by a persistent combination of economic progress and growing relative poverty. This endemic inequality has puzzled economists for years.
Franklin Obeng‐Odoom
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A systematic review of sensors to combat crime and routes to further sensor development. [PDF]
Cozens AE, Johnson SD, Lee TC.
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The political consequences of Africa's mobile revolution
Abstract What are the political consequences of rising domestic connectivity? I study this question in Sub‐Saharan Africa, asking how mobile technology shapes public opinion in geographically isolated communities. For remote rural populations, mobile devices increase contact with physically distant social networks, through regular phone calls with ...
Alex Yeandle
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Associations between the living environment and sleep through the mediation of the physical activity: a systematic review. [PDF]
Scouvemont M +7 more
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The effect of real‐news party cues
Abstract News media routinely offer cues about the stances of party elites, but to what extent do these cues shape the policy opinions of the public? While numerous experiments find that partisans adopt the stances of their leaders, these findings may not generalize easily to the context of real news, which often contains richer policy information and ...
Rasmus Skytte
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Firearm-related violence in the Caribbean is a complex systemic issue: how do we move towards a solution? [PDF]
Sobers NP +11 more
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The policy adjacent: How affordable housing generates policy feedback among neighboring residents
Abstract While scholars have documented feedback effects among a policy's direct winners and losers, less is known about whether such effects can occur among the indirectly affected—“the policy adjacent.” Using 458 geocoded housing developments built between two nearly identical statewide ballot propositions funding affordable housing in California, we
Michael Hankinson +2 more
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