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The unbearable (financial) burdens of parenting

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Alya Guseva
wiley   +1 more source

Are people who use methamphetamine at increased risk of physical violence? Results from a nationally representative sample

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims The association between methamphetamine use and violent behaviour has received much attention in the research. The risk of violent victimisation among people who use methamphetamine is comparatively underexplored. People who use methamphetamine appear to be at a high risk of violent victimisation, but no studies have ...
Christel Macdonald, Rebecca McKetin, Sergey Alexeev, Don Weatherburn   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Street vending, vulnerability and exclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Cali, Colombia. [PDF]

Environ Urban, 2022
Martínez L, Young G.
europepmc   +1 more source

The lender of last resort function under a currency board : the case of Argentina [PDF]

Within the current rules of the game, Argentina's central bank (BCRA) is charged with being the lender of last resort as well as providing full convertibility between pesos and U.S. dollars - two objectives with one instrument, namely, reserves.
Walsh, Carl, Leipziger, Danny, Dooley, Michael, Caprio, Gerard Jr.   +3 more
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
wiley   +1 more source

Loan sales under asymmetric information [PDF]

Loans are illiquid assets that can be sold in a secondary market even that buyershave no certainty about their quality. I study a model in which a lender has accessto new investment opportunities when all her assets are illiquid.
Mónica Vargas
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Public virtue, private ambition—Women owners of private hospitals in early twentieth‐century New Zealand

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract New Zealand's early‐twentieth‐century health service was a two‐tier system of state hospitals supported by an expanding network of over 300 private hospitals, almost exclusively owned by nurses and midwives. This article will show that this environment was created by a legislative framework introduced between 1901 and 1906, requiring nurses ...
Ann‐Marie Quinn
wiley   +1 more source

Limited commitment and central bank lending [PDF]

Lenders of last resort ; Banks and banking ...
Marvin Goodfriend, Jeffrey M. Lacker
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Containing Histories Past and Present: Making Samples in the “Huntington Collection” (1893–1921)

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Huntington Anatomical Collection (1893–1921) includes the skeletal remains of immigrants, migrants, and lifelong New York City residents. The collection's formation was coeval with the formalization of physical anthropology, and the collection was made to serve research aims centered on race and origin.
Alanna L. Warner‐Smith
wiley   +1 more source