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The Winner Takes it All: Gender Inequality in Literary Prize Culture
, 2018 This thesis sets out to research gender inequality in literary prize culture by analysing the Man Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Stella Prize.
Pollen, P.H.L.
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Conserving Rodent Pests in Transition Toward Endangered Status
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Rodent control invariably takes place in the context of ecosystems heavily modified by agriculture. Together, they are potent drivers of rodent decline and endangerment. Nineteen percent of 2349 rodent species evaluated in the IUCN Red List of threatened species are of some conservation concern.
Xavier Lambin
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Global Apparel Value Chain in the Post‐MFA Era: Exploring Bangladesh's Competitive Edge
Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study revisits Bangladesh's competitive edge by examining patterns of global apparel trade during the post‐Multi‐Fibre Arrangement (MFA) era using a large bilateral panel of 27 leading apparel exporters trading with 163 destinations with coverage of 90% of the world apparel exports.
Abul Bashar Mohammed Fakhruzzaman
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Migrant Motherhood and Child Protection: The Ecuador–Genoa Case
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant motherhood is often accompanied by a dual stigma, both in the country of origin and that of migration, where migrant mothers are frequently associated with a failure to parent adequately. Drawing on a case study of Latin migration in Genoa (Italy), this article examines the phenomenon in relation to the dynamics of the globalised ...
Francesca Lagomarsino, Chiara Lanini
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Are natural resources a curse on the distributional consequences of financial development?
Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines how natural resource dependence shapes the distributional effects of financial development in developing economies. Using a balanced panel of 90 countries from 1995 to 2022 and dynamic panel and nonlinear threshold methods, we show that financial development reduces wealth inequality when resource dependence is low, but ...
Dong‐Hyeon Kim +2 more
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Sequential Two-Prize Contests [PDF]
We study two-stage all-pay auctions with two identical prizes. In each stage, players compete for one prize. Each player may win either one or two prizes.
Aner Sela
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Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article investigates the changes in the structure of employment in Central and Eastern European firms between 2001 and 2007, before the Global Financial Crisis and following the reforms in the labour and credit markets in these economies.
Elisabetta Magnani
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Rushlight: Volume XVI, Graduation Issue 1953
, 1953 Wheaton College (Norton, MA) student literary magazine.The Birthday Party: English Prize of 1953PalominoZion: Rushlight Poetry PrizeIntrusionWakepeepholeFloodThere are tearsToo CarefulJessica: Rushlight Prose ...
Jacqueline Cook +9 more
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Script Reform, Human Capital and Social Change: Evidence From Uzbekistan's Latin Alphabet Transition
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Script reforms are common nation‐building tools, yet rigorous evidence on their effects is scarce. This paper examines Uzbekistan's transition from Cyrillic to Latin script, mandated in 1993 and implemented in schools from 1996. I study heterogeneous effects across initial conditions using a difference‐in‐differences design that exploits ...
Angelina Nazarova
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90 Day Fiancé: Presentations of Status Exchange on the International Marriage Market
Family Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study examines power and status, as constructed by producers on the reality television show 90 Day Fiancé, that comes from being a US citizen on the international marriage market. We investigate what show producers present each partner as offering the other and what this suggests about gender and power in cross‐national ...
Andrea Laurent‐Simpson +2 more
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