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SociusIn this comment, the authors reevaluate the claim put forward by Mijs that popular belief in meritocracy has increased across a broad range of countries during recent decades of rising inequality.
Timo Wiesner, Patrick Sachweh
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Review of Economics and Statistics, 2000 This paper considers the relationship between inequality and crime using data from urban counties. The behavior of property and violent crime are quite different. Inequality has no effect on property crime but a strong and robust impact on violent crime, with an elasticity above 0.5.
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Manuscrítica, 2023 En el presente trabajo partiremos del análisis del contexto de producción de la obra Mar Paraguayo (1992) y de las formulaciones paratextuales que acompañaron el proceso crítico-genético de invención/creación de la obra de Wilson Bueno en la revista O ...
Juan Recchia Paez
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Does Subjective Well-Being Affect Political Participation?
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2020 Subjective well-being (SWB) has been positively correlated with political activity, however the causality of the effect remains debated. By estimating within-individual effects, I show that SWB decreases protest intentions, while its effect on voting is ...
Lindholm Annika
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BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background Most older people, and especially those in need of long-term care, suffer from one or more chronic diseases. Consequently, older people have an increased need of medical care, including specialist care.
Maike Schulz +8 more
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Note on the Carleman’s inequality and Hardy’s inequality
Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2010 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Zhongxue Lü +2 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Performance of probable dementia classification in a European multi-country survey
Scientific ReportsFeasibility constraints limit availability of validated cognitive assessments in observational studies. Algorithm-based identification of ‘probable dementia’ is thus needed, but no algorithm developed so far has been applied in the European context.
Matthias Klee +2 more
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020 Background Elderly in need of long-term care tend to have worse health and have higher need of medical care than elderly without need for long-term care.
Maike Schulz +10 more
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