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The social life of money for children

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Prescribed-Time Leader-Follower Synchronization of Higher-Order Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems via Fuzzy Neural Adaptive Sliding Control. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Ullah S, Babar MZ, Alghamdi S, Alsafran AS, Kraiem H, Algethami AA.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing the performance of grid-connected DFIG systems using prescribed convergence law. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Itouchene H, Amrane F, Boudries Z, Mekhilef S, Benbouhenni H, Bizon N.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars of inequality generally find that lower‐class individuals are more skeptical of meritocratic narratives that link economic success to individual work effort. However, past research has yielded inconclusive findings about how economic inequality affects meritocratic attitudes across different class groups.
Roshan K. Pandian, Ronald Kwon
wiley   +1 more source

Fixed point results in intuitionistic fuzzy pentagonal controlled metric spaces with applications to dynamic market equilibrium and satellite web coupling. [PDF]

PLoS One
Ishtiaq U, Alshaikey S, Riaz MB, Ahmad K.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond Old Boys' Clubs: Financial Analysts' Utilization of Professional Connections

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women often lack the opportunity to join exclusive social clubs, limiting the benefits they derive from their social networks. We investigate whether, when given the opportunity to interact with the right people in a professional setting, women gain greater advantages from these connections for career performance and advancement compared to ...
MENGQIAO DU, RACHEL XI ZHANG
wiley   +1 more source

Linear programming-based stabilization and synchronization of positive complex networks with dynamic link subsystems. [PDF]

PLoS One
Hong S, Zhang J, Zheng G, Yang H, Uzair Aslam B.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Estimating Causal Effects With Observational Data: Guidelines for Agricultural and Applied Economists

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most research questions in agricultural and applied economics are causal in nature: they study how changes in one or more variables (such as policies, prices or weather) affect one or more other variables (e.g., income, crop yields or pollution).
Arne Henningsen, Guy Low, David Wuepper, Tobias Dalhaus, Hugo Storm, Dagim Belay, Stefan Hirsch   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nonlinear fractional stochastic delay modeling and computational analysis of herpes simplex virus type II dynamics. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Raza A, Alsulami M, Lampart M, Shafique U.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source