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Health and Survival Impacts of Early Childhood Development Programmes: The Case of the Happy Child Programme in Brazil

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper adds to the growing evidence on the impacts of early childhood development (ECD) programming by examining one of the world's largest home visitation programmes, the Happy Child Programme in Brazil, and its impacts on child vaccination and preventable death rates.
Raquel Tebaldi, Franziska Gassmann, Bruno Martorano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for uncertainty and bias in archaeological and historical evidence on wealth inequality. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Fochesato M, Bowles S.
europepmc   +1 more source

The relationship between intergenerational mobility and equality of opportunity

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Among economists, the analysis of social mobility and the role of parental background is largely carried out in two separate strands of research. The intergenerational mobility literature estimates parent–child persistence in some outcome of interest, such as income.
Adrian Adermon, Gunnar Brandén, Martin Nybom   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neural focalization of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the inferior parietal lobule is associated with inhibitory control performance in adolescence. [PDF]

Dev Cogn Neurosci
Meredith WJ, Guassi Moreira JF, Leal AM, Saragosa-Harris N, Ninova E, Waizman Y, Gaines E, Karlsgodt KH, Silvers JA.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Relationship Between Welfare and Capital Controls

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between welfare state and capital flow management. Complementing the literature on the implications of financial globalization for social protection, we argue that the coverage and priorities of welfare states matter more than the amount of spending when it comes to the degree of capital account ...
Martino Comelli, Pedro Perfeito da Silva
wiley   +1 more source

Poverty Attributions and Voting Choices in the 2023 Swiss National Elections

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Is poverty a relevant issue for Swiss electoral politics and political behavior? In this paper we answer that question by showing that citizens’ agreement with different causal attributions of poverty matters for their voting decisions. Of highest relevance is the difference between an “individual blame” explanation (i.e., the poor are lazy ...
Lionel Marquis, Jessy Sparer
wiley   +1 more source

Prioritising parameters to minimise blood transfusions for postpartum haemorrhage: A machine learning study using national population data

Transfusion Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) accounts for approximately 27% of maternal deaths worldwide and often requires blood transfusion, along with its associated risks. In resource‐rich settings like South Korea, transfusion disparities persist, highlighting the need for predictive tools to optimise patient blood management (PBM).
Ki Hoon Ahn, Yu‐Min Choi, Kwang‐Sig Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coordinating production-living-ecological space efficiency in suburban rural areas using a DEA-triangular model. [PDF]

iScience
Zhao T, Xu W, Cheng Y, Yuan R, Fan Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

The New Economics of Cape Slavery

South African Journal of Economics, Volume 94, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT In this survey, I argue that the Cape Colony has become one of the most useful settings for studying the economics of unfree labour. The Cape offers a distinctive combination: a slavery regime linking the Indian Ocean and Atlantic worlds, an urban and agrarian economy, overlapping labour regimes and archives rich enough for linked micro‐data ...
Johan Fourie
wiley   +1 more source

Identical Platform, Divergent Publics: Sweden and Finland During the 2022 NATO Crisis

Policy &Internet, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Digital platforms are often theorized as universal drivers of political polarization, yet empirical patterns remain inconsistent across countries. Leveraging the natural‐experiment logic of Sweden's and Finland's simultaneous 2022 NATO applications and the NATO–Turkey diplomatic crisis, this study examines how national political cultures ...
Selcen Ozturkcan
wiley   +1 more source