Disciplining Prostitutes in the Hospital de la Magdalena in Barcelona (1923‐1959)
Summary Background and Objectives The Hospital de la Magdalena, a care home for female prostitutes with venereal diseases, operated in Barcelona from 1923 to 1959. The purpose of this investigation is to highlight how this hospital was used to educate female prostitutes morally in addition to providing medical treatment.
Florian Grafl, Florian Steger
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Attitudes towards the market economy and capitalism in Ukraine, Poland and Russia
Abstract This article presents the results of opinion polls conducted in Ukraine, Poland, and Russia, focusing on attitudes towards the market economy and capitalism. The polls first asked six questions about the market economy without explicitly referencing ‘capitalism’.
Rainer Zitelmann
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Lighting the path against cancer with academic light: Forty years of growth with the Chinese Medical Association-Celebrating the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Medical Association. [PDF]
Shi Y.
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Infrastructure expansion, tourism and electoral outcomes
Abstract This paper examines the electoral impact of economic growth through increased foreign tourism using data from Croatia. To identify causal effects, the paper applies an instrumental variable strategy, which uses variation in the ruggedness of the local terrain to estimate the network of least‐cost paths.
Adrian Mehic
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Measuring and analyzing the emotional engagement exhibited by chinese university students in ideological and political theory courses via the IPTCSSE. [PDF]
Wang L.
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How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits
Abstract Do religious beliefs affect responses to fertility incentives? We examine a 1982 maternity benefits expansion in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a difference‐in‐differences framework with similar East European countries as comparisons. To isolate the importance of religion, we compare women who did and did not grow up in religious households ...
Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova
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What is the Point of Social Media? Corporate Purpose and Digital Democratization. [PDF]
Aytac U.
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Land Reforms in Cuba: First Empirical Assessment on Productivity Using Crop‐Level Panel Data
ABSTRACT Land reforms implemented in Cuba since 2008 have aimed to increase agricultural production by distributing state‐owned idle lands with land‐use rights. The reforms restricted farmers with the rights from cultivating perennial and capital‐intensive crops.
Yoshihiko Hashiguchi +1 more
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