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The Costs and Consequences of Gun Control [PDF]

, 2015
In politicizing mass murders, gun control advocates, such as President Obama, insist that more laws against firearms can enhance public safety. Over and over again, there are calls for common sense gun controls, such as a system of universal background ...
David B. Kopel
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Social stigma and executive compensation [PDF]

, 2018
We document that executives working at firms perceived negatively in light of social norms, such as tobacco, gambling and alcohol, earn a significant compensation premium. The premium compensates for personal costs executives bear due to their employer’s
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Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
wiley   +1 more source

Domestic and International Firearm Laws: Can Implementation Be Used to Nationally Decrease Firearm Violence and Mass Shootings [PDF]

, 2018
The issue of firearm violence in the United States is highly controversial, as there are sound arguments on both sides of the discussion. Advocates of stricter gun laws often refer to both international and domestic examples that highlight the ...
Banuelos, Kenneth
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Do Major Customers Affect Firms' Environmental, Social and Governance Activities?

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the role of major customers in shaping firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices. We find that firms with major customer relationships undertake fewer ESG activities compared to those without such ties. The association is attenuated when institutional ownership is high, firms are less diversified, customers exhibit
Feng Dong, John A. Doukas, Stephanie Walton, Rongyao Gloria Zhang, Yiyang Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fighting Back: Crime, Self-Defense, and the Right to Carry a Handgun [PDF]

, 1997
Ten years ago this month, a controversial "concealed- carry" law went into effect in the state of Florida. In a sharp break from the conventional wisdom of the time, that law allowed adult citizens to carry concealed firearms in public.
Jeffrey Snyder
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Distribution modelling for Neotropical freshwater stingrays Potamotrygon brachyura and Potamotrygon motoro (Myliobatiformes, Potamotrygonidae) in the Uruguay River basin

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study aimed to identify geographical distribution patterns of the giant short‐tailed river stingray Potamotrygon brachyura and the motoro stingray Potamotrygon motoro in the Uruguay River basin. Data on presence/absence of stingrays were based on fishers' knowledge accessed by interviews through expeditions in Brazil, Argentina and ...
Danilo Araujo Soares Pereira, Roberto E. Reis, Nelson F. Fontoura   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How deep a divide do we tolerate? Measuring the willingness to engage with differently minded others (WEDO)

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Fostering contact across political camps is crucial to combat affective polarization and to sustain healthy democratic discourse. Researchers therefore have become increasingly interested in better understanding the factors that promote or hamper political exchange.
Melissa Jauch, Olivia Fischer, Mariela E. Jaffé, Rainer Greifeneder   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Adaptive Management Model for Brown Bears in Hokkaido: Based on Total Population and the Number of Nuisance Bears

Population Ecology, Volume 68, Issue 1, January 2026.
Bear management changes management actions according to the horizontal axis of the population size and the vertical axis of the number of nuisance bears. Aiming for the target population size of Ntar, Actions I and II protect the bears, and Action IV reduces the population.
Hiroyuki Matsuda, Akira Maki, Tsutomu Mano, Hifumi Tsuruga, Hino Takafumi, Shinichi Horino   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling the U.S. firearms market: the effects of civilian stocks, crime, legislation, and armed conflicte [WP]

, 2020
This study represents an attempt to understand the U.S. firearms market – the largest in the world – in economic terms. A model of the underlying interplay of legal firearms supply and demand is a prerequisite for reliably evaluating the effectiveness of pertinent existing state and federal firearms policies, and to amend them as necessary.
McDougall, Topher L., Montolio, Daniel, Brauer, Jürgen   +2 more
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