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, 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. +2 more
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The ESG Backlash and the Demand for ESG Mutual Funds
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 22, Issue 4, Page 690-706, December 2025.ABSTRACT The backlash to ESG investing is in full swing, with dozens of states enacting measures aimed at curtailing the consideration of environmental, social, and governance factors in their pension funds. Meanwhile, ESG mutual funds are experiencing net outflows after a period of lagging performance. Is this the end for ESG funds?
Quinn Curtis
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Assault Weapons Revisited: Policy Options for Regulating Rifles, Shotguns, and Other Firearms 20 Years After the Passage of the Assault Weapons Ban [PDF]
, 2014 20 years after President Bill Clinton signed the federal assault weapons ban into law in September 1994 and a decade after Congress allowed that law to lapse -- the question of whether and how to regulate particularly lethal firearms is no longer the ...
Arkadi Gerney, Chelsea Parsons
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The Journal of Finance, Volume 80, Issue 6, Page 3555-3588, December 2025.ABSTRACT This paper establishes that mutual funds strategically time their trades in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) stocks around disclosure dates to inflate their sustainability ratings. This claim is supported by three empirical findings.
GIANPAOLO PARISE, MIRCO RUBIN
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Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 39, Issue 6, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT We investigated the existence of a “deception‐general” ability (association between the ability to produce and detect lies) in 140 individuals (80 from prison and 60 from the general community) using the Deceptive Interaction Task (DeceIT). Deception production (d' Sender) and detection (d' Receiver) indexes were comparatively analyzed within ...
Andreea Turi +4 more
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Mass Spectrometry Reviews, Volume 44, Issue 6, Page 989-1012, November/December 2025.Abstract With the advent of soft ionization techniques such as electrospray (ESI) and matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) to produce intact gas‐phase ions from nonvolatile macromolecules, mass spectrometry has become an essential technique in the field of polymeric materials.
Thierry N. J. Fouquet +2 more
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Madagascar's Urban Lemur Meat Trade
Conservation Letters, Volume 18, Issue 6, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT As the world's most endangered mammals, lemurs are key to understanding how humans and wildlife can sustainably coexist. We present the first national assessment of the urban lemur meat trade. We interviewed 2600 participants across 17 cities to determine its scale, target species, distribution, and drivers.
Cortni Borgerson +2 more
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Alzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 21, Issue 10, October 2025.INTRODUCTION Digital technologies can increase the accessibility of evidence‐based caregiver programs. METHODS A 6‐month, phase I, exploratory, randomized‐controlled trial of two dementia caregiver support platforms, GamePlan4Care (GP4C) and Resources4Care (R4C), each enrolling 120 community‐based family caregivers.
Alan B. Stevens +6 more
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Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data [PDF]
In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using differences across states in the number of firearms withdrawn, we test whether the reduction in firearms availability affected firearm ...
Leigh, Andrew, Neill, Christine
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The Civil War II Novel: From Speculation to Preparation
The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 58, Issue 5, Page 214-222, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article describes radical rightwing dystopian fictions set in near‐future versions of the USA, in which the nature of liberal society, combined with some disastrous catalyst, triggers armed resistance by authoritarian, libertarian, and/or secessionist forces, leading to a Second Civil War.
Geoff Boucher +2 more
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