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Preschool and maternal labour market outcomes: evidence from a regression discontinuity design [PDF]
Expanding preschool education has the dual goals of improving child outcomes and work incentives for mothers. This paper provides evidence on the second, identifying the impact of preschool attendance on maternal labor market outcomes in Argentina.
Berlinski, S., Galiani, S., McEwan, P.J.
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Age‐specific reproduction in female Steller sea lions in Southeast Alaska
Age‐, region‐, and year‐specific estimates of reproduction are needed for monitoring wildlife populations during periods of ecosystem change. Population dynamics of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in Southeast Alaska varied regionally (with high ...
Kelly K. Hastings +4 more
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A large body of epidemiologic research has concentrated on the 1918 influenza pandemic, but more work is needed to understand spatial variation in pandemic mortality and its effects on natality. We collected and analyzed 35,151 death records from Arizona
S. Dahal +4 more
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Cultural Memory as a Basis of the Social Wellbeing [PDF]
In the article the author considers cultural memory as a basis of the social wellbeing. Two concepts "cultural memory" and "social wellbeing", features of their interrelation, and also influence of the person on the cultural memory formation are ...
Chicherina, Natality Viktorovna +1 more
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This paper aims to rethink the idea of constitutional renewal through a dissection of Richard Albert’s ground-breaking concept of constitutional dismemberment.
Ming-Sung Kuo
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The Effect of Statutory Rape Laws on Teen Birth Rates [PDF]
Policymakers have often been explicit in expanding statutory rape laws to reduce teenage pregnancies and live births by teenage mothers, often with the goal of reducing associated welfare outlays. In this paper, we explore whether expansions in such laws
Frakes, Michael D., Harding, Matthew C.
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In the following pages I shall endeavour to describe the present state of our knowledge of Bilharziasis in Natal and the result of some personal observations extending over the last seven years. The investigations of the Bilharzia Mission to Egypt have drawn attention to the various forms of cercariae which infest several species of fresh-water snail ...
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Increases in body weight and nutritional status of transplanted Alaskan caribou
Body weight and natality rate in ungulates can be useful indices to nutririon, bur they may also be influenced by genetic and climatic factors. Because caribou {Rangifer tarandus granti) are distributed as discrete populations of metapopulations (i.e ...
Patrick Valkenburg +5 more
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The Impact of Medical Liability Standards on Regional Variations in Physician Behavior: Evidence from the Adoption of National-Standard Rules [PDF]
I explore the association between regional variations in physician behavior and the geographical scope of malpractice standards of care. I estimate a 30–50 percent reduction in the gap between state and national utilization rates of various treatments ...
Frakes, Michael D.
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Lullaby: Births, Deaths and Narratives of Hope
Guided by the hopeful possibilities of birth, breath and beginning that Hannah Arendt and Luce Irigaray variously articulate, this paper examines the lullaby as an expressive form that emerges (in a variety of contexts as distinct as medieval Christendom
Rebekah Pryor
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