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Epidemiological modeling of Romanization and Christianization in Ancient Greece
The spread of culture has been often paralleled with epidemic contagion. We propose to use models of this type to analyze Romanization and...
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Why does Okun’s law change? Essay in econometric history
This article aims to demonstrate the existence of significant shifts in Okun’s law parameters, indicating their non-constant nature over time, and to...
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Remote work and the effects on secondary childcare
In spring 2020, stay at home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced many Americans to work remotely. Simultaneously, these orders shut down...
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Examining the relationship of healthcare expenditures and socio-economic factors with population health in Russia
The article follows the Grossman concept of investment in health and describes possibilities to increase human capital by addressing determinants of...
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Decentralization and rural–urban income inequality: implications for inverted-U hypothesis of Pakistan
The decentralization process greatly improves a society's welfare by offering public goods and services. Inequality between rural and urban areas as...
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Industrial production over the business cycle 1919–2022: R/S and wavelet hurst analysis of multifractality and Austrian business cycle theory
The U.S. index of industrial production is examined for multifractal long memory over business cycle expansions and recessions from 1919 to 2022....
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Short-term Kullback–Leibler divergence analysis to extract unstable periods in financial time series
A new method is presented for estimating a short-term Kullback-Leibler divergence to analyze the statistical characteristics of significant...
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Individual and regional determinants of women’s participation in the European labour market: a Labour Force Survey empirical study
In line with the existing literature, the primary focus of the present paper is on understanding the multifaceted factors contributing to unequal...
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Key underlying concepts of shared prosperity: insights from a literature review
“Shared prosperity”—a social objective that all nations should pursue—has gained increasing importance in the discussion of development policy....
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Assessing agricultural adaptation to changing climatic conditions during the English agricultural revolution (1645–1740)
This article examines the impact of climatic variability on the English Agricultural Revolution using Allen’s Nitrogen Hypothesis. While half of the...
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Subjective well-being and inequality in Spain’s decline
The economic decline of Early Modern Spain offers an opportunity to explore how it affected perceptions of welfare and inequality. We provide an...
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Impact of mobile financial services on financial inclusion: empirical insights from Kenya
This study investigates the impact of demographic factors on the use of mobile money applications in Nairobi County’s Kasarani constituency, a...
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The impact of progressive era labor regulations on annual earnings and employment in manufacturing in the USA, 1904–1919
We analyze the impact of the broad range of state labor regulations on employment and annual earnings in manufacturing for wage earners and salaried...
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The cybersecurity entrepreneur
Cybersecurity is a major U.S. policy issue with a sizable coalition asserting that self-regulation is failing, primarily due to rampant low quality...
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Sociological analysis: a cornerstone of Pareto’s political theory?
Much of the scientific discussion on Pareto—at least from the sociological side—has focused on what is the core of his theory, that is, the...
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The creative–destructive force of hurricanes: evidence from technological adoption in colonial Jamaican sugar estates
While in the early part of the nineteenth-century Jamaica was one of the world’s leading sugar producers, the abolition of slavery, the flooding of...
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Pareto’s legacy in the Italian tradition: the case of mathematical economics
Pareto’s personality had a great influence on the evolution of economic theory in the last century at least in the Italian context. At the beginning...
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A capabilitarian behavioral economics: what behavioral economics can learn from the capability approach
Behavioral economics (BE) accounts for how people actually behave has proven to be very influential in multiple domains. Its insights have dislodged...
