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Abstract Research Summary This exploratory paper introduces a new type of family business by studying the investment strategies of family‐managed venture capital funds (“Family VCs”) across a multi‐country setting. It shows that Family VCs are more likely to invest in (syndicate with) geographically proximate startups (investors), indicating a ...
Valerio Pelucco
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ChatGPT in public policy teaching and assessment: An examination of opportunities and challenges
Abstract This paper presents the findings of an innovative assessment task that required students to use ChatGPT for drafting a policy brief to an Australian Government minister. The study explores how future public policy students perceive ChatGPT's role in both public policy and teaching and assessment.
Daniel Casey
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Begin with a 2-vowel word in which the two vowels are different.
Thorpe, Susan
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This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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Does your surname affect the citability of your publications?
Prior investigations have offered contrasting results on a troubling question: whether the alphabetical ordering of bylines confers citation advantages on those authors whose surnames put them first in the list.
Abramo, Giovanni +1 more
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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Ever since Lucy Stone decided to retain her surname at marriage in 1855, women in America have tried to do the same. But their numbers were extremely low until the 1970s.
Claudia Goldin, Maria Shim
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Intergenerational mobility in England, 1858-2012. Wealth, surnames, and social mobility [PDF]
This paper uses a panel of 21,618 people with rare surnames whose wealth is observed at death in England and Wales 1858-2012 to measure the intergeneration elasticity of wealth over five generations.
Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence
Abstract Focusing on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we examine how sibling relationships—one of the most salient familial bonds—influence individual engagement in violence during mass atrocity. Drawing on an adaptation of differential association and social learning theories for contexts of mass atrocity, we analyze a novel dataset linking over 300,000 ...
Jack G. R. Wippell +3 more
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