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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

‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Formal Oversight: Contested Issues, Digital Traces, and the Justificatory Consequences of Felt Accountability

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public officials and elected politicians are held accountable by various audiences, beyond generally recognized and authorized stakeholders, such as courts and auditors. However, previous studies on felt accountability—that is, individuals’ perception that their actions will be evaluated by salient audiences who may reward or sanction them—do ...
André Carlos Busanelli de Aquino   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Territorial Financial Governance Complicates Vertical Relationships in the Multi‐National United Kingdom

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The United Kingdom is an asymmetric polity, in part because it is a multi‐national state brought together by conquest and voluntary union. The 1998 devolution settlements for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland were conceived and implemented in the context of UK membership of the European Union (EU).
David Heald
wiley   +1 more source

In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT New Urbanist ideas promoting walkability have many benefits. But they are criticised by proponents of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), who blame street connectivity for facilitating target recognition, providing access and escape routes and weakening informal surveillance.
Jose Pina‐Sánchez, Ian Loader
wiley   +1 more source

A Horse Race of Machine‐Learning Methods to Predict Banking Crises

open access: yesInternational Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To examine if one machine‐learning model can consistently elucidate financial vulnerabilities, both over time and across levels of development, this paper applies 13 machine‐learning algorithms to evaluate comparative forecasting performance across several banking crises.
Emile du Plessis
wiley   +1 more source

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