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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

Majority support for global redistributive and climate policies. [PDF]

Nat Hum Behav
Fabre A, Douenne T, Mattauch L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Winning! Election returns and engagement in social media. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Calvo E, Ventura T, Aruguete N, Waisbord S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Partisan Cities: How State‐Local Political Alignment Shapes Credit Risk and Information Processing in the Municipal Bond Market

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies how partisan alignment between city leaders and state governors shapes information processing and bond pricing in the municipal bond market. Using a novel data set on 1,045 U.S. cities from 2005 to 2019, we show that cities with the same political affiliation as the state governor face 9 basis points lower borrowing costs ...
RAMONA DAGOSTINO, ANYA NAKHMURINA
wiley   +1 more source

Male twinning after the 2008 Obama election: A test of symbolic empowerment. [PDF]

Soc Sci Med
Stolte A, Gemmill A, Lee H, Bustos B, Casey JA, Bruckner TA, Catalano RA.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

A sickness benefit for all, leaving no one behind. [PDF]

Ann Occup Environ Med
Moon D, Choi H.
europepmc   +1 more source

How Changing Food Preferences and Technology Are Transforming Food Markets

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The foods that consumers purchase and how they purchase food are changing over time. In this article, we discuss how health prioritization and environmental concerns, combined with new technologies, are changing consumers' food preferences and retail choices.
Jill J. McCluskey, Jillian Hyink
wiley   +1 more source

A dynamic lightweight blockchain sharding protocol for autonomous collaborative combat of UAV swarms in denied environments. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Xu Y, Zhu X, Bai Y, Chen Z, Sun M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Dutch dilemma: Housing prices and flood risk exposure

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article studies the impact of flood risk exposure on housing prices in a major river delta. Analyzing 1.8 million property transactions from 1998 to 2023 in the Netherlands, we find an average price discount of 1.1%. We observe considerable heterogeneity in price effects driven by exposure intensity, institutional settings that vary ...
Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok, Philibert Weenink   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source