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Taking Stock: Elite Studies and Social Change

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides a systematic synthesis of contemporary elite sociology through the analytical lens of change and stability. We distinguish between two types of change: change within elites, referring to transformations in elite composition, circulation, or internal characteristics; and change by elites, designating processes whereby ...
Lena Ajdacic   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating Causal Effects With Observational Data: Guidelines for Agricultural and Applied Economists

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most research questions in agricultural and applied economics are causal in nature: they study how changes in one or more variables (such as policies, prices or weather) affect one or more other variables (e.g., income, crop yields or pollution).
Arne Henningsen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The hidden discount: Examining racial disparity in the use of suspended sentences

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Extant research on criminal sentencing generally concludes that racial/ethnic disparity is concentrated in the “in–out” decision, and that racial differences in sentence lengths are small and inconsistent. However, sentence length analyses rarely focus on the fact that criminal sentences are often partially or fully suspended, creating ...
Kevin Petersen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Influencers and the Shaping of Beliefs

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Influencers, from propagandists to sellers, expend vast resources targeting agents who amplify their message through word‐of‐mouth communication. While agents differ in network position, they also differ in their bias: Agents may naturally read articles with a particular slant or buy products from a certain seller.
Akhil Vohra
wiley   +1 more source

Tales of Cyberspace and Artificial Intelligence: Diverging Stakeholderships?

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces the evolution of the Internet from the 1990s to the 2020s and compares it with the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly following the public launch of ChatGPT in late 2022. It identifies both parallels and divergencies between these two overlapping technological domains, focusing on the growing ...
Johan Eriksson, Giampiero Giacomello
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the next step: A multi‐criteria generative validation framework for step selection functions

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Step‐selection functions (SSFs), typically fitted using step‐selection analysis (SSA) or integrated step‐selection analysis (iSSA) are widely used to infer habitat selection and movement kernels from high‐frequency telemetry data, but most standard validation tools focus on one‐step‐ahead prediction and do not guarantee that fitted models ...
Aurélien Nicosia
wiley   +1 more source

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