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The Returns to Education: A Meta‐Study

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been many studies estimating the causal effect of an additional year of education on earnings. The majority employ administrative changes in the minimum school‐leaving age as the mechanism allowing identification. Here, we survey 79 such estimates.
Gregory Clark   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nezihe Muhiddin and the Struggle for Women’s Franchise. The Defeat of Feminism by Nationalism in Early Republican Turkey

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article focuses on Nezihe Muhiddin, a pioneering figure in Turkish–Ottoman first‐wave feminism, who sought to secure women's political rights by attempting to establish the Women's People Party in 1923, over a decade before women gained suffrage.
Barbara Dell’Abate Çelebi
wiley   +1 more source

Different Paths for Words and Money: The Semantic Field of Commerce and Finance in Middle English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
[Abstract] Our aim in this paper is to examine the relationship between society and language change. Development such as the discovery of new territories and the introduction of new and exotic products and practices are known to have caused a significant
Crespo, Begoña, Moskowich, Isabel
core   +1 more source

The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
wiley   +1 more source

Tolkien Among the Moderns (2015), ed. by Ralph C. Wood [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Book review by Robin Anne Reid of Tolkien Among the Moderns (2015) ed.
Reid, Robin A., Dr.
core   +2 more sources

A Polyphonic Debate on Social Equity Budgeting

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper is polyphonic (i.e., a debate involving multiple perspectives) and highlights emerging interdisciplinary thoughts on past, current, and future social equity budgeting (SEB). We present a vision for the field and emphasize the potential impact of this paper. We hope to enliven debates regarding context, underpinning philosophies, and
Bruce D. McDonald III   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Circular flow of tradition in Old Norse religion

open access: yes, 2018
This paper discusses processes that drove the ability of pre-Christian religion in Scandinavia to vary and adapt to shifting conditions and contexts in society. They also helped to keep religion cohesive over both social and geographical boundariesand hierarchies.
openaire   +1 more source

Conflict Resolution in the 21st Century: A South Asian Perspective

open access: yesPacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conflicts in the contemporary international system have increasingly shifted from state‐centric power struggles to deeply rooted human needs crises. This study applies John Burton's Human Needs Theory to explain the persistence of the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan, focusing on the deprivation of identity, recognition, and ...
Hafeez Ullah Khan
wiley   +1 more source

Old Norse religion

open access: yes, 2006
Raudvere, Helena Catharina   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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