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Governing and Living Through Failure: Russian Speakers in Ethnocentric Nation‐Building Projects of Estonia and Latvia

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to nationalism studies by demonstrating how states use failure as a governance tool to regulate national belonging and by showing how people experience and reinterpret failure in ways that unsettle dominant national imaginaries.
Lena Hercberga, Alina Jašina‐Schäfer
wiley   +1 more source

Reasons, rationality, and opaque sweetening: Hare's “No Reason” argument for taking the sugar

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Caspar Hare presents a compelling argument for “taking the sugar” in cases of opaque sweetening: you have no reason to take the unsweetened option, and you have some reason to take the sweetened one. I argue that this argument fails—there is a perfectly good sense in which you do have a reason to take the unsweetened option. I suggest a way to
Ryan Doody
wiley   +1 more source

The potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries: A modeling study. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Med
Portnoy A   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Accounting for Cross‐Country Differences in Output Per Worker: A Sectoral CES Perspective

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The standard macroeconomic literature suggests that richer countries employ more productive technologies. Removing technological disparities between countries would hence narrow the substantial variation in output per worker across countries.
Jan Trenczek, Konstantin M. Wacker
wiley   +1 more source

Fully Modified GLS Estimation for Seemingly Unrelated Cointegrating Polynomial Regressions

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A new feasible generalized least squares estimator is proposed. Our estimator incorporates (1) the inverse autocovariance matrix of multidimensional errors, and (2) second‐order bias corrections. The resulting estimator has the intuitive interpretation of applying a weighted least squares objective function to filtered data series.
Yicong Lin, Hanno Reuvers
wiley   +1 more source

Spending with purpose: tracking health expenditures in Tajikistan to inform progress toward UHC. [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Policy Open
Akkazieva B   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Long‐Run Perspective on Unconditional Convergence in Manufacturing: Evidence From U.S. Industrialisation

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines long‐run unconditional convergence of labour productivity in manufacturing across 48 contiguous U.S. states. We construct a detailed panel data set of state‐industry pairs with over 120 industries covering the period 1880–2007.
Alexander Klein   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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