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Disciplining Prostitutes in the Hospital de la Magdalena in Barcelona (1923‐1959)

open access: yesJDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes towards the market economy and capitalism in Ukraine, Poland and Russia

open access: yesEconomic Affairs, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Infrastructure expansion, tourism and electoral outcomes

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Land Reforms in Cuba: First Empirical Assessment on Productivity Using Crop‐Level Panel Data

open access: yesEconomics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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