Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that persistent institutions such as religion, legal traditions, and family practices, also matter. This article provides an empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the crossnational level. To capture this long…

We summarize our two sets of controlled experiments designed to see whether single-sex classes within co-educational environments modify students� risk-taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in school years 10 and 11, while in Booth et al. (2014), they are first-year university students randomly assigned to single-sex and co-educational classes. Both studies show that w…

Public health insurance and other arrangements covering health costs effectively provide insurance against changes in health status. These arrangements engage in burdensmoothing over the life cycle and entail various elements of redistribution. Lack of portability regarding this type of cover may impede international mobility and create financial losses or windfall gains on various sides, which…

Tahun Terbit

2010

Tahun Terbit

2010

Tahun Terbit

2010

In this survey, we trace the interplay between the Hardy–Littlewood school of analysis, prominent in the UK in the first half of the last century, and probability theory, barely known in the UK at that time.

Tahun Terbit

2008

ISBN/ISSN

978-979-015-953-2

Deskripsi Fisik

xvii, 430p. : ilus. ; 25 cm.

No. Panggil

155.2/FRI/k

Over the last 15 years, the locus of policymaking towards asylum seekers and refugees has shifted away from national governments and towards the European Union (EU) as the Common European Asylum Policy has developed. Most of the focus has been on the harmonization of policies relating to border control, the processing of asylum claims, and reception standards for asylum seekers. But this st…

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