Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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Inward Tension of Talin and Integrin-related Osmotic Pressure are involved Synergetically in the Invasion and Metastasis of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. [PDF]
J Cancer, 2020 Song Y +6 more
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Quality of year‐end spending and risk–return trade‐off
Fiscal Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines how the quality of government spending changes at the end of the fiscal year, using administrative data from financing programmes for small and medium‐sized enterprises in South Korea. We assess spending quality based on the average sales growth of recipient firms. We show that while an early budget execution policy reduces
Illoong Kwon, Hanhyung Pyo
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Pilot Transcriptomic Profiling of Canine Oral Melanoma Reveals Conserved Oncogenic Pathways and Uncharacterized Molecular Signatures. [PDF]
Cancers (Basel)Pérez-Santana CG +9 more
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Monitoring Quality of Mafia‐Connected Accountants
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the monitoring quality of accountants with ties to the Mafia in their role as auditors for “clean” firms—those with no known ties to organized crime. Using a proprietary government database, we identify Italian firms with alleged ties to the Mafia through their executives, directors, or shareholders.
Pietro A. Bianchi +3 more
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Polygenic Risk Score Predicts Prostate Cancer Risk Independent of Type 2 Diabetes. [PDF]
Diabetes Obes MetabLee GJ +6 more
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Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract We estimate the price impact of very nearby concurrently listed properties in the Sydney housing market and assess their competition effects. We apply a hedonic model with spatiotemporal effects regularized via a graph Laplacian prior at the month‐by‐SA2 regional level to seven SA4 subregions of metropolitan Sydney. The model structure enables
Willem P. Sijp, Mengheng Li
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NEMO Family of Proteins as Polyubiquitin Receptors: Illustrating Non-Degradative Polyubiquitination's Roles in Health and Disease. [PDF]
CellsWu CJ.
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