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Electoral impact of the rental market: evidence from Israel

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper studies housing tenure and voting patterns during the period from July 2013 to July 2023 in Israel, where the rental share of housing units increased from 24% to 29%, and six national elections for parliament took place. Using detailed neighbourhood panel data on rental units share and electoral outcomes, I find that switching a ...
Yael Elster
wiley   +1 more source

Floral richness drives flower–insect networks in city gardens and allotments

open access: yesEcological Entomology, EarlyView.
Floral richness was the main driver of flower visits within green spaces whilst green space in the surrounding landscape influenced flower visits by amplifying the effects of floral richness. Native plants received more visits than non‐native plants, although flower visitor richness to non‐native plants increased later in the season as non‐native plant
Emma Plant   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Benefitting from brutality? Profits of north‐western Europe's slave trade at the eve of the industrial revolution

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship voyage accounts into a joint dataset. This dataset includes data from a period of 100 years (1730–1830) and from five nations (Denmark, France ...
Klas Rönnbäck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
wiley   +1 more source

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