Trump hits Vietnam with a 46% tariff, which means that Nike will have to rethink where to makelow-margin shoes. Does it make sense for the U.S. to invest in low-tech shoe-making rather than high-tech AI? trade balance Hopefully, Trump will pay attention to this week’s 10%stock ma...
The International Crisis Group, in a report entitled “The Covid-19 Pandemic and Deadly Conflict” (ICG, 2020), recognized that “the long- and short-term consequences for deadly conflict are less well understood”. Severalregional studieshave aimed to explore the possible implications of the CO...
Public Health Hoaxes Public health hoaxes warn people that certain bad things have happened to innocent victims; they ask you to spread the word as widely as possible to prevent other victims. Usually they attribute the warning to a government or public health agency. There will often be the ...
Bloch and Rao (2002) study the case of three villages in southern India to find that women whose families pay smaller dowries have a higher risk of domestic violence. They also find that women from richer families also have a high risk because of the potential of higher resource extraction....
How does climate affect economic activities in Southwestern France? How does drought influence economic activities? How does climate affect culture? How can monsoons benefit economic activities? How does climate change affect living things? How does location affect a country's economic activities? How ...
removing or suspending accounts that engage in harmful activity [17,19,20]. Numerous high-profile cases of influential individuals fueling conspiracy theories and inciting violence [21] have led to real-world incidents and subsequent public outcry [22], bringing platforms to intervene by deactivating...
High policing traces its roots to Roman law and regards the police created in France in 1667 under Louis XIV as the first police organization comparable to modern forces (Brodeur, 1983; Chapman, 1970; Tobias, 1972). It is an all absorbent policing paradigm that reaches out for potential ...
5 This drop might be due to a misconception of probabilities leading experimental taxpayers to evade more just after they have been detected, Another explanation is that subjects evade more to recover the losses due to fines. Kastlunger et al. (2009) found that a possible way to remove...
We find the female unemployment rate to have a larger negative influence on health than male unemployment. Given that female unemployment is a better proxy for maternal unemployment, its larger effect might point towards worse maternal mental health induced by the financial distress. We also find ...
PO The number of crime per year 2275.455 388.504 CASINO The number of casino 18.455 8.456 SARS A dummy variable which equals one for the year 2003. 0.091 0.288 WHL (TIME) The dummy variable of WHL equals one for years since 2005 and onward. 0.455 0.499 EUROWHL EURO = Germany, France, ...