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Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume

open access: yesNature Communications, 2017
The hippocampus in mammalian brain varies in size across individuals. Here, Hibar and colleagues perform a genome-wide association meta-analysis to find six genetic loci with significant association to hippocampus volume.
Derrek P. Hibar   +331 more
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Wage discrimination as an illegal behavior [PDF]

open access: yes
Paying different wages to workers of equal productivity because of demographic groups to which they belong is illegal in the US and other Western countries.
Yossi Tobol
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Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This paper critically reviews and synthesizes research on the role of religion on various aspects of the economic and demographic behavior of individuals and families in the United States, including the choice of marital partner, union formation and ...
Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian
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Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundAlzheimer's disease is a common debilitating dementia with known heritability, for which 20 late onset susceptibility loci have been identified, but more remain to be discovered.
Valentina Escott-Price   +189 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Theory of Social Interactions [PDF]

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This essay incorporates a general treatment of social interactions into the modern theory of consumer demand. Section 1 introduces the topic and explores some of the existing perspectives on social interactions and their importance in the basic structure
Gary S. Becker
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Addiction et procrastination [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Peu de gens ignorent tout l’attrait et le regret que la procrastination peut engendrer. Ils n’ignorent pas la tension psychologique que ce genre de choix fait apparaître et le dilemme que cela représente.
Gabriel Monette
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Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper offers a rational approach to the economics and psychology of fear and provides empirical evidence that supports our theory. We explicitly consider both the impact of danger on emotions and the distortive effect of fear on subjective beliefs ...
Gary S. Becker, Yona Rubinstein
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Child Endowments, and the Quantity and Quality of Children [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper brings together and integrates social interactions and the special relation between quantity and quality. We are able to show that the observed quality income elasticity would be relatively high and the quantity elasticity relatively low and ...
Gary S. Becker, Nigel Tomes
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30-day postoperative mortality and the effects of hospital preparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a pooled analysis of prospective international cohort studiesResearch in context

open access: yesThe Lancet Regional Health. Europe
Summary: Background: Surgical services were poorly prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to widescale disruption to elective activity. This study aimed to identify actionable priorities to strengthen pandemic preparedness of surgical and hospital ...
Dmitri Nepogodiev   +23259 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility [PDF]

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When parents are altruistic toward children, the choices of fertility and consumption come from the maximization of a dynastic utility function. The maximization conditions imply first, an arbitrage condition for consumption across generations, and ...
Gary S. Becker, Robert J. Barro
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