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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
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"When there is no money, that is when I vomit blood": the domino effect and the unfettered lethal exploitation of Black labor on Dominican sugar plantations. [PDF]
Global Health, 2023 Wilson BK.
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Bad NGOs? Competition in the Market for Donations and Workers' Misconduct
The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate how competition among NGOs to attract donations shapes the incentives that NGOs provide to their employees. NGOs hire workers to undertake development projects, which are horizontally and vertically differentiated.
Nadia Burani, Ester Manna
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Banking Development and the Economic Impact of Natural Disasters: From Short to Long Term Effects
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how financial development and local banking structures shape the economic resilience of communities in the aftermath of natural disasters. Focusing on Italian municipalities hit by earthquakes between 2008 and 2022, we explore the role of banking presence, particularly cooperative banks, in supporting recovery.
Valentina Peruzzi +2 more
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Kant's Metaphysics of Race, Its Distinctiveness, and Its Normativity
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on the contemporary taxonomy of the metaphysics of race, this paper shows that Kant's theory of race occupies a distinct metaphysical position on race. Second, it argues that Kant's metaphysics of race inherently produces racist claims.
Reza Mosayebi
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Changes in parrot diversity after human arrival to the Caribbean. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Oswald JA +5 more
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Journal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.This study provides the first global, regional and national estimates of periodontal expenditure, with projections to 2050. Costs related to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, maintenance and rehabilitation are quantified across all countries worldwide.
Dian Yi Chow +4 more
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This replication study examines feedback timing in vocational language learners and verifies the hypothesis that the advantage of immediate over delayed feedback found in the original study (Li, Zhu, & Ellis, 2016) is due to practice opportunities in immediate feedback.
Shaofeng Li, Jie Li, Jiancheng Qian
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Robust Bernoulli Mixture Models for Credit Portfolio Risk
Mathematical Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents comparison results and establishes risk bounds for credit portfolios within classes of Bernoulli mixture models, assuming conditionally independent defaults that are stochastically increasing in a common risk factor. We provide simple and interpretable conditions on conditional default probabilities that imply a comparison ...
Jonathan Ansari, Eva Lütkebohmert
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