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Rural Capitalists and Development in Colonial Africa: A Comparative Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the emergence and role of rural capitalists in colonial Sub‐Saharan Africa by comparing three peasant‐based economies: Bechuanaland, the Gold Coast and Tanganyika. Using social tables, we estimate the population and income shares of better earning agricultural producers and assess their impact on rural inequality and ...
Prince Young Aboagye   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Couple Mobility and Employment Patterns. A Gender Perspective in Six European Countries

open access: yesJournal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study investigates how different couple‐based geographical mobility strategies affect employment probabilities for men and women in six European countries from a gender perspective. Background Although geographical mobility is often linked to improved labor market outcomes, women tend to face social and economic disadvantages ...
Nazareno Panichella   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Joining Decision‐Making, Moral Thinking, and Collective Action: Grand Challenges as a Phenomenology of Deliberation

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This conceptual article argues that the mutual relevance of grand challenges and organization and management studies is best approached phenomenologically. Rather than constituting objects to be theorized or denoting special empirical contexts, grand challenges structure researchers’ attention and shape their interpretations of the processes ...
Alfredo Grattarola   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying and Mapping Industrial Districts Through a Spatially Constrained Cluster‐Wise Regression Approach

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 403-428, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to exploit an innovative spatial econometric approach to map and study the evolving patterns of industrial districts (IDs). The procedure can be classified as a k‐means cluster‐wise regression procedure and is designed to detect homogeneous areas of subcontracting activity.
Jacopo Canello   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
wiley   +1 more source

Physiological utility theory and the neuroeconomics of choice. [PDF]

open access: yesGames Econ Behav, 2005
Glimcher PW, Dorris MC, Bayer HM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Behavioral Factors in Tax Preparer and Tax Compliance Choices

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What tax preparer characteristics are most important to taxpayers in their decision to use a tax preparer, and how does this choice of a tax preparer affect subsequent taxpayer compliance? We use laboratory experiments to examine these questions. We find that individuals in this environment simultaneously choose a preparer and their compliance
James Alm   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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