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Gender Equality and Customary Marriage: Bargaining in the Shadow of Post-Apartheid Legal Pluralism [PDF]
, 2006 This Report represents the culmination of a year-long project undertaken by the Crowley Program in International Human Rights at the Fordham Law School to study issues surrounding women and customary law marriages in South Africa in light of its ...
Fenrich, Jeanmarie +2 more
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Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
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A Proposal to Ease the Heavy Burden of Domestic Labour
İstanbul Hukuk MecmuasıDomestic labour, a well-known form of unpaid labour, is widespread throughout many countries. Most domestic labour is performed mostly by housewives.
Murat Aybars Tunca
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Fitness consequences of cousin marriage: a life-history assessment in two populations. [PDF]
Evol Hum Sci, 2023 Dalzero A, Ross CT, Lukas D.
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Default Effect in ESG Investment: When a Recommendation Goes a Long Way
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Individual investors display a positive attitude toward ESG investments but typically fail to act upon it. We report results from a preregistered online experiment testing a default option on 1050 US investors examining the mechanisms driving the effectiveness of default options in promoting ESG investments.
Sai Sravanthi Ramadugula +2 more
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Marriage, Divorce and Interstate Risk Sharing [PDF]
In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married couples account for a higher share of the population are less exposed to state-specific output shocks.
Johann Scharler, Martin Halla
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Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While takeovers serve a disciplinary role by replacing inefficient managers, the threat of takeovers may compel firms to divert attention from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts as a strategic response to external pressure, especially when such firms are already overinvesting in ESG.
Abongeh Tunyi +2 more
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Donations due to marriage in Valencian Matrimonial Property Regime Law 10/2007 [PDF]
, 2015 El presente trabajo analiza la regulación de las donaciones por razón de matrimonio en la legislación valenciana, en comparación con la regulación del Código civil español, destacando las cuestiones que pueden plantear dudas o problemas prácticos.This ...
Algarra Prats, Esther
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite growing attention to the circular bioeconomy (CBE), the steel industry currently lacks a standardised, sectoral measurement framework to facilitate a low‐carbon transition. In this study, a decision‐support framework for evaluating CBE performance in the steel industry is proposed.
Ali Zamani Babgohari +2 more
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