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Junk News on Military Affairs and National Security: Social Media Disinformation Campaigns Against US Military Personnel and Veterans [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
Social media provides political news and information for both active duty military personnel and veterans. We analyze the subgroups of Twitter and Facebook users who spend time consuming junk news from websites that target US military personnel and veterans with conspiracy theories, misinformation, and other forms of junk news about military affairs ...
arxiv  

Heterogeneity in Food Expenditure amongst US families: Evidence from Longitudinal Quantile Regression [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
Empirical studies on food expenditure are largely based on cross-section data and for a few studies based on longitudinal (or panel) data the focus has been on the conditional mean. While the former, by construction, cannot model the dependencies between observations across time, the latter cannot look at the relationship between food expenditure and ...
arxiv  

Military Expenditure and Economic Growth Literature: A Meta-Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper surveys the literature on military expenditure and economic growth us- ing a meta-analysis technique. There exists a vast empirical literature that examines the impact of military expenditure on economic growth.
Aynur Alptekin, Paul Levine
core  

Review of the anatomical basis for predicting plutonium alpha particle radiation induced osteogenic cancers

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Plutonium was discovered and first synthesized in the early 1940's. Several isotopes of plutonium are used in nuclear technologies, 238Pu for heat generation and 239Pu for energy production and weapons. Both isotopes emit alpha particles, which pose a significant radiation hazard when incorporated into the body.
Scott C. Miller
wiley   +1 more source

Military expenditure and economic growth: A survey

open access: yesThe Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 2013
Until recently, a long-standing, impressively large, and growing literature on the effects of military expenditure on economic growth appeared to have failed to result in a scholarly consensus. But the availability of 20 more years of data since the thawing of the cold war has helped researchers to make progress in identifying any relation of military ...
J. Paul Dunne, Nan Tian
openaire   +4 more sources

Military Expenditure and Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
Meta analysis is conducted to review 32 empirical studies with 169 estimates to find the combined overall effect of military expenditure on economic growth. Using a meta fixed and random effects and regression analysis, our results show that there exists
Alptekin, Aynur, Levine, Paul
core   +1 more source

The impact of Military Expenditure on Income Inequality in Organization of Islamic Cooperation Countries with an Emphasis on the Role of Corruption [PDF]

open access: yesعلوم و فنون نظامی, 2017
Empirical evidence from studies conducted in different countries of the world suggests that income inequality is affected by military expenditures. The severity of this impact can vary with different levels of corruption. In this regard the present study
abolghasem golkhandan   +1 more
doaj  

Constructing a Social Accounting Matrix Framework to Analyse the Impact of Public Expenditure on Income Distribution in Malaysia [PDF]

open access: yesJurnal Ekonomi Malaysia 2012, 2020
The use of the social accounting matrix (SAM) in income distribution analysis is a method recommended by economists. However, until now, there have only been a few SAM developed in Malaysia. The last SAM produced for Malaysia was developed in 1984 based upon data from 1970 and has not been updated since this time despite the significance changes in the
arxiv  

Government spending shocks and the multiplier: New evidence from the U.S. based on natural disasters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The literature on estimating macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy requires suitable instruments to identify exogenous and unanticipated spending shocks. So far, the instrument of choice has been military build-ups.
Fidrmuc, J, Ghosh, S, Yang, W
core   +1 more source

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