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The policy adjacent: How affordable housing generates policy feedback among neighboring residents

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
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, Asya Magazinnik, Melissa Sands   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
wiley   +1 more source

Spatio-textual indexing for geographical search on the web [PDF]

, 2005
Many web documents refer to specific geographic localities and many people include geographic context in queries to web search engines. Standard web search engines treat the geographical terms in the same way as other terms. This can result in failure
Joho, H., Jones, C.B., Sanderson, M., Vaid, S.   +3 more
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Idiosyncratic Political Risk and Bad News Hoarding

Financial Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Managers may respond to greater political risk by suppressing unfavorable news from outsiders to manage investors’ perceptions about firm risk and protect their careers. However, they may also avoid engaging in bad news hoarding activities because exposure to political risk increases firm visibility and attracts greater scrutiny. Using a novel
Gonul Colak, Georgios Loukopoulos, Panagiotis Loukopoulos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geographica: A Benchmark for Geospatial RDF Stores [PDF]

, 2013
Geospatial extensions of SPARQL like GeoSPARQL and stSPARQL have recently been defined and corresponding geospatial RDF stores have been implemented. However, there is no widely used benchmark for evaluating geospatial RDF stores which takes into account
Garbis, George, Koubarakis, Manolis, Kyzirakos, Kostis   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Mining the Demographics of Political Sentiment from Twitter Using Learning from Label Proportions

, 2017
Opinion mining and demographic attribute inference have many applications in social science. In this paper, we propose models to infer daily joint probabilities of multiple latent attributes from Twitter data, such as political sentiment and demographic ...
Ardehaly, Ehsan Mohammady, Culotta, Aron
core   +1 more source

The effects of socioeconomic status and indices of physical environment on reduced birth weight and preterm births in Eastern Massachusetts [PDF]

, 2008
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work
A Ellaway, Ariana Zeka, B Ritz, B Ritz, BA Coull, BG Link, BL Williams, CI Li, DJ Barker, EH Ha, GLIMMIX, GR Alexander, I Kawachi, J Dejmek, JJ Collins, Joel Schwartz, JS Lucas, K Mortimer, K Sexton, KM Godfrey, LC Messer, LW Pickle, M Bobak, M Bobak, M Jerrett, M Maisonet, M Roorda-Knape, M Wilhelm, M Wilhelm, MassGIS-EOEA, ML Bell, MT Salam, MW Gillman, N Gouveia, N Krieger, N Krieger, N Krieger, N Krieger, N Krieger, N Schenker, NA Ponce, RC Gwynn, RM Burton, S Kanjilal, S Macintyre, Steve J Melly, SV Subramanian, TIGER, TJ Woodruff, X Wang, Y Zhu   +50 more
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Consumer Mobility, Offline and Online Regional Trade: Evidence From High‐Frequency Transaction Data

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The shift from offline to online purchasing is reshaping trade patterns: a weaker effect of distance has been observed in digital transactions. This study analyzes these dynamics at an unprecedented scale and granularity, using interregional gravity models estimated from billions of geolocated French card transactions.
David Bounie, Youssouf Camara, John W. Galbraith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geocoding Applications for Enhancing Urban Water Supply Network Analysis

Urban Science
Geospatial tools and geocoding systems play an increasingly significant role in the modernization and operation of municipal water utility networks. This research explored how geocoding systems could improve network management, facilitate leak detection,
Péter Orgoványi, Tamás Hammer, Tamás Karches   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A method and a tool for geocoding and record linkage [PDF]

For many years, researchers have presented the geocoding of postal addresses as a challenge. Several research works have been devoted to achieve the geocoding process.
CHARIF Omar, KLEIN Olivier, OMRANI Hichem, SCHNEIDER Marc, TRIGANO Philippe   +4 more
core   +1 more source