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Land-System Changes and Migration Amidst the Opium Poppy Collapse in the Southern Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico (2016-2020)
For decades, Mexico has been one of the major illegal opium poppy cultivation countries in the world. In 2017-2018 the price of the opium gum dropped...
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IPV Experiences and Financial Strain Over Time: Insights from the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Analysis
Financial strain is one hardship faced by female survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) that is often overlooked. This paper examined the...
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Relict Plant Communities at Prehispanic Sites in Oaxaca, Mexico: Historical Implications
Coordinated with excavations at two prehispanic sites in the eastern arm of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, we documented a diversity of economically...
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Shortage, Meanings, and Adaptations of Water: Reflections on the Perspectives of Elders from San José Lachiguirí, Oaxaca, Mexico
Water scarcity is a problem that affects people in urban and rural communities’ areas alike to develop their personal, domestic, agricultural, and...
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Indigenous Sacrifice in the Christian Language Among the Communities of the Northern Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico
Traditions of human sacrifice among the peoples of the Northern Mixteca survived the Spanish Conquest. The Postclassic period’s emphasis on warrior...
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Differences between genders in the subjective well-being of students participating in PISA 2018
Adolescence is a critical period for the development of cognitive personality and maturation. Subjective well-being (SWB) levels decreases during...
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Take or Reject State Power? The Dual Dilemma for Teachers’ Unions in Brazil and Mexico
How do unions that represent similar constituencies and fight for comparable goals come to embrace radically different relationships to the state and...
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State-Level Policies, Descriptive Representation, and the Gender Pay Gap, 2010–2019
The gender pay gap serves as a barometer of gender inequality. Researchers across a variety of disciplines have researched the economic, political,...
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The Gender Wage Gap and Parenthood: Occupational Characteristics Across European Countries
Different strands of research analyse gender occupational differences and how they relate to differential earnings, especially among parents juggling...
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The 2015 Refugee Crisis and Institutional Trust in European Countries
Exogenous events have the potential to affect citizens’ risk-perceptions, (in)security sentiments, electoral choices, policy preferences and...
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The Persistence of the Gender Earnings Gap: Cohort Trends and the Role of Education in Twelve Countries
Studying twelve countries over 30 years, we examine whether women’s educational expansion has translated into a narrowing of the gender gap in...
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Popular Religion or Lived Religion? Exploring Indigenous Religious Festival Practice in Mexico
This article investigates the practice of lived religion in two contemporary indigenous communities in Mexico (San Juan Mixtepec, Oaxaca and El...
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Gender, Work, and Leisure in Old Age in China and India
This paper examines how paid and unpaid work affects leisure differently for older women and men in China and India. We use data from the World...
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Why Are Firms in High-income Economies More Productive than in Middle-income Economies? Decomposing the Firm Labor Productivity Gap
Studies have noted that output per worker varies enormously across countries. Using firm-level survey data, the present paper contributes to the...
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On the Gender Gap of Soft-Skills: the Spanish Case
In recent years, many studies have referred to the interdependence between cognitive (hard-skills) and students’ academic performance. However,...
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Gender Differences in Financial Knowledge among College Students: Evidence from a Recent Multi-institutional Survey
Women’s disadvantage in financial knowledge impedes their progress toward gender equality and produces negative consequences for both individuals and...
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Perceptions Regarding Education as a Way to Improve Living Conditions in Mexico: a Qualitative Exploration
This study explores perceptions about educational attainment as a way to improve living conditions in Mexico. We focus specifically on two questions:...
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Food Poverty, Vulnerability, and Food Consumption Inequality Among Smallholder Households in Ghana: A Gender-Based Perspective
We examined gender-based household welfare differences in Ghana among smallholder households. We measured disparities in welfare outcomes (food...
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Portals to the Gods: Reciprocity, Sacrifice, and Warfare in the Northern Mixteca
Ritualized violence in the Late Postclassic Northern Mixteca of Oaxaca is explored via artifacts, pictograms, and field identifications of landforms...