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Urban Transformation and Experiences of ‘Becoming Marginal’ in Russia
Urban transformation in the post-socialist city is connected to comprehensive debates. This paper steers the reader through these, emphasising three...
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The Heterogeneous Effect of Post-Compulsory Education on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence Based on Marginal Treatment Effect
The education-happiness puzzle has long been debated in the existing literature with conflicting results. Based on the generalized Roy model, this...
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No water, no job? Water scarcity, marginal farmers and livelihoods in Eastern India
A pivotal way that climate is affecting agriculture is through uncertainty of rainfall, water scarcity, enhanced risk of agriculture and lower...
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Marginal Voices, Resilient Acts: Urban Marginality and Responses to Climate-Related Events in Lilongwe City Informal Settlements
Urban informal settlements have, over the years, been centres of conflicting development debates, yet, for people with low socio-economic status,...
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Importance Weighting in Subjective Well-Being Measures: Using Marginal Utilities as Weights for Domain Satisfaction
Whether perceived importance can be used as a weighting factor for the aggregation of domain satisfaction is an important issue in the literature on...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Enhanced Marginalisation of Marginal Tourist Destinations
Geographical marginality in general and also in terms of its relationship with tourism and sustainability is a relatively new conceptual framework...
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Subsidies or green taxes? Evaluating the distributional effects of housing renovation policies among Dutch households
Despite persistent housing affordability issues, energy policy and housing renovation are usually investigated separately from housing costs other...
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The Marginal Utility of Inequality
Despite decades of research, we still lack a clear explanation for the emergence and persistence of inequality. Here we propose and evaluate a...
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Retirement Spillover Effects on Spousal Health in Urban China
This paper empirically studies the causal effect of retirement on spouses’ subjective health for the elderly in urban China. We find that women’s...
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Effects of the Statutory Minimum Wage: Findings to Date
This chapter provides an overview of the status of the implementation of the statutory minimum wage in Germany to date as well as available findings...
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Demographic and socioeconomic effects of environmental policies: the 1927 special goat tax and mountain depopulation in Italy
The research aims to assess the demographic impact related with the implementation of an environmental policy, which affects food availability in...
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Determinants of temporary migration of rural small, marginal and landless households in West Bengal, India
Using data collected at the village level, the present paper examines the socio-economic determinants of temporary labour migration in West Bengal, a...
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Euphorias in Gender, Sex and Sexuality Variations Positive Experiences
This Open Access book uses the concept of ‘euphoria’ to investigate when, why and how marginal gender, sex and sexuality groups have positive...
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tourism in Romania in 2020 with Special Regard on Marginal Rural Areas
The chapter assesses the manner in which the COVID-19 pandemic affected the Romanian economy in general, focusing on its impact on marginal areas,...
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Economic effects of air quality on housing prices: evidence from Bei**g, China
Air pollution is a major environmental urban issue, particularly in fast-growing cities in develo** countries. Reducing air pollution is thus a...
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Social, environmental, and COVID-19 pandemic-related effects on women's food security and health in Honduras
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionally affected women in Honduras in terms of loss of employment and income opportunities, access to healthcare...
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The Household Multidimensional Poverty Reduction Effects of Digital Financial Inclusion: A Financial Environment Perspective
The poverty alleviation effects of digital financial inclusion are widely recognized, while these effects are dependent on the financial environment....
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The effects of environmental and non-environmental shocks on livelihoods and migration in Tanzania
Disruptive events and calamities can have major consequences for households in the predominantly agrarian communities of Eastern Africa. Here, we...
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Spatial Diffusion of COVID-19: From Hyper-Connected Territories to Marginal Areas—The Case of Niassa, Mozambique
Historically, globalisation has contributed to the spatial spread of infectious diseases, demonstrating the interdependence arising from trade and...
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Modelling scale effects in rating data: a Bayesian approach
We present a Bayesian approach for the analysis of rating data when a scaling component is taken into account, thus incorporating a specific form of...
