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Economic Development and Adolescent Wellbeing in 139 Countries
There is a positive association between the level of economic development and national levels of overall life satisfaction (OLS) in the adult...
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Long Term Impact of Childhood Exposure to Pollution on Children’s Test Scores
Recent studies examined relationships between childhood exposure to pollution and long-term outcomes, such as schooling. The literature, however, has...
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Occam’s razor, machine learning and stochastic modeling of complex systems: the case of the Italian energy market
In the spirit of Occam’s razor, we propose a parsimoniuos regime-switching model for describing the complex dynamics of electricity and natural gas...
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Effects of Improvisation Training on Student Teachers’ Behavioral, Neuroendocrine, and Psychophysiological Responses during the Trier Social Stress Test
ObjectivesTeaching involves multiple performance situations, potentially causing psychosocial stress. Since the theater-based improvisation method is...
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Social distancing as a critical test of the micro-sociology of solidarity
Face-to-face (F2F) embodied interaction is the initial ingredient of interaction ritual (IR), the buildup of shared emotion, mutual focus of...
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Fear of crime in France: a partial test of Ferraro’s risk interpretation model
Conflicting with its Republican idealism, France’s colonial legacy and history of xenophobia has led to riots by the first-, second-, and...
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Identification of house price bubbles using robust methodology: evidence from Polish provincial capitals
This article aims to check whether there has been a price bubble in the Polish major housing markets in recent years. To accomplish this goal, the...
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Investment in Education and Economic Growth in India: Evidence from the Last Two Decades
Education is a key driver of economic growth and development of a country. It promotes productivity of the human capital leading to higher per capita...
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Convergence of Income Inequality in OECD Countries Since 1870: A Multi-Method Approach with Structural Changes
This paper aims to examine convergence of income inequality in 21 OECD countries using several empirical techniques. In particular, we have used a...
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The Paradox of Wealthy Nations’ Low Adolescent Life Satisfaction
Using PISA 2018 data from nearly half a million 15-year-olds across 72 middle- and high-income countries, this study investigates the relationship...
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Index of active participation in society
The concept of Active citizenship is gaining importance. Ignoring the issues of selection of dimensions and items, the paper addresses methodological...
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A spectral approach to evaluating VaR forecasts: stock market evidence from the subprime mortgage crisis, through COVID-19, to the Russo–Ukrainian war
We explore the application of spectral methods in risk management as means of validating VaR models. We propose to replace earlier spectral VaR tests...
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Scientific Production Convergence: An Empirical Analysis Across Nations
Countries’ scientific systems are a key element of the knowledge economy. This paper explores the convergence pattern of the scientific systems of a...
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Who Opts Out? The Customisation of Marriage in the German Matrimonial Property Regime
This study examines the prevalence of marital contracts across marriage cohorts (1990–2019) in Germany. We further investigate the characteristics of...
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Testing the Income Pooling Hypothesis and its Link to the Taxation of Couple Households: Evidence from Demand System Estimation for Germany
Whether couples pool their resources and behave like a unit or spend their income individually is crucial for social and tax policy. In this paper, I...
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The Impact of Socio-Economic Conditions on Individuals’ Health: Development of an Index and Examination of its Association with Three of the Most Frequently Registered Diseases in Lazio Region of Italy
This study examines spatial disparities and associations between the social deprivation index (SDI) and Type 2 Diabetes, Dementia, and Heart Failure...
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Does poverty respond asymmetrically to financial development? Evidence from India using asymmetric cointegration and causality tests
Using annual time series data for India, this research paper examines the presence of asymmetric cointegration and asymmetric causality between...
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Trends in Income Inequality: Evidence from Develo** and Developed Countries
We use a novel approach to answer questions like: is there a secular trend and shift in inequality across develo** and/or developed countries? Do...
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A new hierarchical composite indicator model for ranking the top 20 European football teams
The rankings of football teams are crucial to assess their sportive and non-sportive performances and allow fans and investors to have a measure of...
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The impact of interactive content-embedded application on vocabulary learning and attitude change: a case study of Kahoot in Iranian context
Computers have encroached all aspects of human life and education is not an exception but what is yet untouched by the discourse community is what...