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Contagion, Not Only Interconnection: Measuring the Transmission of Financial Distress
Miguel Herculano discuses a novel approach to understand contagion of financial distress in the banking system, which takes into account the spatial nature of the phenomena.
Facial identity across the lifespan
Mike Burton analyses the statistical properties of faces as they age, sampling photos of the same people from…
The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone
Antoine Bousquet provides a historical overview of military perception technologies.
Wage Dispersion, Job Creation and Development: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Labor markets in least developed countries are characterised by small wage sectors and low productivity and wages. Using…
The growth paradigm: a critique
Gareth Dale challenges the relentless pursuit of GDP growthfrom environmental and well-being standpoints.
Can Behavioural Economics Be Applied To Life Satisfaction?
Firat Yaman discusses whether a number of findings in behavioural economics can be supported by measures of life satisfaction and other variables.
On the decline of war
For the past 70 years, there has been a downward trend in the size of wars, but the idea of an enduring "long peace" remains controversial. Michael Spagat discusses the war-size data into units of battle deaths
A Structural Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs
Manolis Galenianos discusses a model of illicit drugs markets using data on purchases of crack cocaine.
Leading the Fight Against the Pandemic: Does Gender ‘Really’ Matter?
Supriya Garikipati discusses difference by gender of the national leader in the number of COVID-cases and deaths in the first quarter of the pandemic.
What You Do Versus Who You Are
Patricia McMullin discusses the role that home-learning activities (HLAs) play in the relationship between social origin and cognitive…
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