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Infrastructure expansion, tourism and electoral outcomes

Economica, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the electoral impact of economic growth through increased foreign tourism using data from Croatia. To identify causal effects, the paper applies an instrumental variable strategy, which uses variation in the ruggedness of the local terrain to estimate the network of least‐cost paths.
Adrian Mehic
wiley   +1 more source

Underserved and overburdened: an ethnographic examination of rural animal sheltering. [PDF]

Front Vet Sci
Bray LA, Jervis LL.
europepmc   +1 more source

Public health reforms and the mortality decline in nineteenth‐century Italy

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the impact of Italy's 1887–8 health reforms on mortality, contributing to the historical debate on the state's role in Europe's health transition. Leveraging event‐study‐style difference‐in‐differences approach, we assess the effectiveness of the Crispi–Pagliani reforms, which strengthened public health governance and ...
Francesco Maria Salvatore Fiore Melacrinis, Mauro Rota   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

A qualitative study of police officers' knowledge of the relationship between police opioid seizures and subsequent risk of overdose. [PDF]

Health Justice
Del Pozo B, Thompson E, Whiteside A.
europepmc   +1 more source

The War of the Pacific and Chilean public revenues: Reallocation of the tax burden and institutional change

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract A substantial body of literature has considered warfare a fundamental driver of fiscal capacity. We argue that the nature of the tax base available to governments can either foster or constrain the ability and incentives of central elites to impose their legitimacy once the war is over.
Oriol Sabaté, José Peres‐Cajías
wiley   +1 more source

Crowd psychology and the politics of co-production: Social control, democratic order and the consequences of theory. [PDF]

Br J Soc Psychol
Stott C.
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
wiley   +1 more source

The construction and optimization of resilient community living sphere driven by digital twins. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Wang L, Zhang X, He W.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Challenges of Backsourcing

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public sector outsourcing sometimes ends in unexpected termination, forcing authorities to engage in backsourcing. The aim of this study is to identify the challenges posed by unexpected terminations of sourcing contracts in the public sector and analyze how actual practices in these situations diverge from theoretical expectations in the ...
Johan Berlin, Eric Carlström, Magnus Jansson, David Karlsson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Street sweeps": The municipal government-enforced confiscation of personal belongings among unstably housed people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada. [PDF]

Public Health
Eren IM, Sayre EC, Shane C, P.O.W.E.R, Singh Kelsall T, Beatrice M, Sudds R, DeBeck K, Milloy MJ, Kerr T, Hayashi K.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source