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Global agricultural value chains and food prices

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study the relationship between the extent of participation in global agricultural value chains (GAVCs) and food prices at the country level. Using longitudinal data on a sample of 138 countries for the period 2000–2015 and a shift‐share instrumental variable design, we study how the extent of a country's participation in GAVCs in a given ...
Bernhard Dalheimer, Marc F. Bellemare
wiley   +1 more source

Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption? Such campaigns use messaging about how people typically behave (descriptive norms) or ought to behave (injunctive norms). Drawing on survey and lab experiments in Ukraine, we unpack and evaluate the distinct effects of these two types of social norms.
Aaron Erlich, Jordan Gans‐Morse
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralized propaganda in the era of digital media: The massive presence of the Chinese state on Douyin

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The rise of social media in the digital era poses unprecedented challenges to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors. To address these challenges, we argue that authoritarian regimes have adopted a decentralized approach to produce and disseminate propaganda on social media.
Yingdan Lu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Archiving Futurity Within the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's Crisis

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, we examine how settler colonization and gendered violence against Indigenous women are remembered and recorded in two archival registers: 18th‐century records from the Massachusetts Archives Collection (MAC) and a 21st‐century corpus of posts using the hashtag MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) on X (formerly Twitter)
Lindsay Martel Montgomery   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Outsmarting sanctions

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
wiley   +1 more source

Do tax havens affect the usage of share buybacks schemes?

open access: yesAnnals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines whether the use of tax haven subsidiaries by U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) is associated with more intense usage of share buybacks. I find that MNCs' more intensive tax haven subsidiary usage is positively associated with a higher buyback ratio, a higher level of free cash flow and a higher level of return on ...
Alessandro Chiari
wiley   +1 more source

Quality from Kent: Preliminary results from the analysis of fifth‐ to seventh‐century silver alloys

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores early results from the chemical and lead isotope analysis of 30 silver‐alloy objects from southeast England dating between the fifth and seventh centuries CE, presenting limited aspects of the three main analyses that were conducted. First, a comparison of the results gained from surface x‐ray fluorescence (pXRF) values and
Toby F. Martin, Matthew J. Ponting
wiley   +1 more source

Tin–Lead Sewn Tokens From 13th‐Century Gdańsk: Assessing Local and Non‐Local Production Through Archaeometric Analysis

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents the results of an interdisciplinary investigation of 98 tin–lead sewn tokens from 13th‐century Gdańsk, the largest assemblage of its kind in Central Europe. Combining archaeological context, typology, SEM‐EDS and lead isotope analysis, the research explores provenance, production and function.
Sławomir Wadyl   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Echoes of ease: Tracing the course of obsessive‐compulsive symptoms in the aftermath of a pandemic—Insights from a four‐year panel study

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives The COVID‐19 pandemic affected mental health worldwide, including obsessive‐compulsive symptoms (OCS) and, specifically, contamination‐related OCS (C‐OCS). This study aimed to map these symptoms' trajectories over four years, thus providing the longest known observational timeline of OCS during and after a pandemic.
Lea Schuurmans   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Professionals' and non‐professionals' experiences of working with people with Hoarding Disorder: A thematic synthesis

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives Individuals with Hoarding Disorder can encounter a range of professionals and non‐professionals during the course of receiving support to manage the accumulation of belongings. This thematic synthesis explored the experiences of professionals and non‐professionals working with people with Hoarding Disorder.
Hannah Parker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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