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Privileged Precarity: How the Mobile Middle Class Leverage Housing Insecurity as Labour Market Strategy

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper‐hand over others? This paper examines the interrelationship between housing and labour market precarity among middle class young professionals. Drawing on interviews with residents of co‐living schemes—for‐profit shared housing where tenants are on temporary rental contracts—it ...
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

Dopamine and Temporal Discounting: Revisiting Pharmacology and Individual Differences. [PDF]

J Neurosci
Smith E, Theis H, van Eimeren T, Knauth K, Tuzsus D, Zhang L, Mathar D, Peters J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Poverty as Biography in Motion: Agency, Emotion, and the Limits of Contemporary Poverty Theory

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research, poverty remains theoretically under‐explained. Dominant approaches oscillate between structural, resource‐based models that conceptualise poverty as a measurable condition, and behavioural or responsibilisation accounts that locate persistence in individual conduct.
Suzanne Butler
wiley   +1 more source

Perceived reward certainty in the assessment of delay discounting. [PDF]

J Exp Anal Behav
Downey H, Alvarez A, Ji W, Lozano A, Hanlon A, Stein JS.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Not all Temperature Shocks are Alike: Disentangling Heat and High Temperature Shocks and Their Effects on Inflation in Australia

Economic Record, EarlyView.
We study the effects of heat and high temperature shocks on inflation in Australia using monthly, state‐level temperature anomaly data via two stages. In the first stage, we decompose temperature anomalies into orthogonal components using a structural vector autoregression with long‐run restrictions.
Tan Dat Huynh, Mengheng Li
wiley   +1 more source

Bayesian sample size determination using robust commensurate priors with interpretable discrepancy weights. [PDF]

Stat Methods Med Res
Whitehead LE, Wason JM, Sailer O, Zheng H.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Corporate Tax System Complexity and Investment Sensitivity to Tax Policy Changes

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Effective policymakers must balance the demands of formulating a corporate tax system that raises revenue and spurs economic activity (e.g., investment) while promoting a “level playing field” across firms. Balancing these tradeoffs has likely caused tax systems to become more complex over time, increasing firms’ difficulty in understanding ...
HARALD AMBERGER, JOHN GALLEMORE, JARON WILDE   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the association of time-inconsistent preferences with smoking behavior: A cross-sectional survey study from Sichuan, China. [PDF]

Tob Induc Dis
Li Y, Ling S, Zhou Y, Li Y, He J, Yang L.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Real Effects of Subjectivity in Measuring Fair Values

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the subjectivity in measuring fair values of assets without readily observable market prices affects investment efficiency and shareholder value. When fair values are objective measures of asset value, they facilitate efficient investment decisions that align with shareholder interests.
VERENA BRAUN, ROBERT F. GÖX, FELIX P. NIGGEMANN, ULRICH SCHÄFER   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Framing as a mechanism to overcome the temptation of bad habits. [PDF]

Front Behav Neurosci
Wang S, Monterosso J.
europepmc   +1 more source