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Wars, depression, and fascism: income inequality in Italy, 1900-1950
(2021)
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This paper documents new yearly estimates of income inequality in Italy
from 1900 to 1950. By constructing dynamic social tables, we obtain the first
comprehensive assessment of all major components of ...
Provincial health inequalities in Spain since 1860
(2021)
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Using annual mortality rates at the provincial level for men and women, we construct a Gini index to estimate changes in regional health inequalities since 1860 in Spain. We find a long steady decline in health inequality ...
A lesson from history? The 1918 influenza pandemic and the rise of Italian fascism: a cross-city quantitative and historical text qualitative analysis
(2021)
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Objectives: Evidence linking past experiences of worsening health and support for radical political views has generated concerns about the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The influenza pandemic that began in 1918 ...
Stereotypes and tournament self-selection: a theoretical and experimental approach
(Elsevier, 2020)
Artículo / Artikulua,
We present a theoretical model in which agents have imperfect self-knowledge about their abilities and have to self-select into either a high-paying or a low-paying tournament. The model shows that negative (positive) ...
Measuring the economic impact of covid-19 on the uk’s leisure and sport during the 2020 lockdown
(MDPI, 2021)
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This research evaluates the effect of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic on sport Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and consumer expenditure in the leisure sector in the United Kingdom (UK). The leisure sector is divided into leisure at ...
Effect of the great crisis on sectoral female employment in Europe: a structural decomposition analysis
(MDPI, 2020)
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Sectoral gender segregation in labor markets is a fact. This paper examines the female distribution of employment by sectors in the EU 28, thereby contributing to the literature on the effects of the recession and subsequent ...
Manipulative agendas in four-candidate elections
(Elsevier, 2020)
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We consider a setting where it is known for an electorate what probability a given candidate has of beating another in a pairwise ballot. An agenda assigns candidates to the leaves of a binary tree and is called manipulative ...
Fair elimination-type competitions
(Elsevier, 2020)
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We study the impact of two basic principles of fairness on the structure of elimination-type competitions and perform our analysis by focusing on sports competitions. The first principle states that stronger players should ...
Ciencia en transición. El lastre del franquismo ante el reto de la modernización: reseña
(Ministerio de la Presidencia, Relaciones con las Cortes y Memoria Democrática, 2021)
Reseña / Aipamena,
Reseña de la obra en la que se aborda el tema de la modernización de la ciencia en España en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. El libro ofrece el trabajo de nueve historiadores (de la economía, la tecnología, las relaciones ...
An evolutionary model of prenatal and postnatal discrimination against females
(Elsevier, 2020)
Artículo / Artikulua,
Discrimination against born and unborn females is a well-documented phenomenon in countries such
as India, China, Taiwan or Korea. Empirical studies support both additive and substitutive relationships
between prenatal ...