Saturday, June 3, 2017

Political Persecutions and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China

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Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China. Melanie Meng Xue, Mark  Koyama November 30, 2016. GMU Working Paper in Ec...

Insurance policy specifically for self-inflicted liver damage

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China’s Zhongan sees scope for offbeat insurance. https://www.ft.com/content/bee51a52-accd-11e6-9cb3-bb8207902122 Financial Times Med...

Upward Mobility and Discrimination: The Case of Asian Americans

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Upward Mobility and Discrimination: The Case of Asian Americans. By Nathaniel Hilger NBER Working Paper No. 22748 October 2016 NBER ...

Sabotage occurs more often when Green Party candidates fail to win even minor offices

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The political roots of domestic environmental sabotage Benjamin Farrer & Graig Klein Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, ...

Children of low-income parents are much less likely to become inventors than their higher-income counterparts

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The Lifecycle of Inventors, by Alex Bell et al. Harvard Working Paper, June 2016 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p apers.cfm?abstract_id=283801...

Relationship between spicy food and aggressive cognition

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You are what you eat: An empirical investigation of the relationship between spicy food and aggressive cognition. By Rishtee K. Batra, Tanu...

Review of Vijay Joshi's India’s Long Road: The Search for Prosperity

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India’s long road to prosperity, by Martin Wolf Martin Wolf is impressed by an analysis of what the world’s largest democracy must do in ord...

Determinants of financial outcomes and choices: the role of noncognitive abilities

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Understanding the determinants of financial outcomes and choices: the role of noncognitive abilities, Gianpaolo Parise and Kim Peijnenburg ...

Our social evaluation of other people is influenced by their faces and their voices. How?

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Audiovisual Integration in Social Evaluation. By Mila Mileva et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, in...

Independent of concealment frequency, frequency of mind-wandering to own secrets predicts lower well-being

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J Pers Soc Psychol. 2017 May 8. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000085. [Epub ahead of print] The Experience of Secrecy. Slepian ML , Chun JS , Maso...

Patients treated by older physicians die more than patients cared for by younger ones, except those docs treating high volumes of patients

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BMJ. 2017 May 16;357:j1797. doi: 10.1136/bmj.j1797. Physician age and outcomes in elderly patients in hospital in the US: observational ...

Ethnic and linguistic fractionalization contributes to poverty levels

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Ethnic Diversity and Poverty. By Sefa Awawory Churchill, Russell Smyth https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worl ddev.2017.02.032 World Development ...

The Effect of Income on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from the 2008 Economic Stimulus Tax Rebates

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The Effect of Income on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from the 2008 Economic Stimulus Tax Rebates. By Marta Lachowska. In Journal of Huma...

On the Size of the Gender Difference in Competitiveness

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On the Size of the Gender Difference in Competitiveness. By Silvia Saccardo, Aniela Pietrasz, Uri Gneezy. In Management Science, http://dx....

Perceived warmth and competence of others shape voluntary deceptive behaviour

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Perceived warmth and competence of others shape voluntary deceptive behaviour in a morally relevant setting. Br J Psychol. 2017 Mar 9. doi:...

Do Globalization and Free Markets Drive Obesity among Children and Youth? An Empirical Analysis, 1990–2013

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Do Globalization and Free Markets Drive Obesity among Children and Youth? An Empirical Analysis, 1990–2013 ...

Small association between socioeconomic status and adult fast-food consumption in US

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The association between socioeconomic status and adult fast-food consumption in the U.S. By Jay L. Zagorsky , Patricia K. Smith. Economics ...

Protestant Ethic and Entrepreneurship: Religious Minorities in the Holy Roman Empire

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The Protestant Ethic and Entrepreneurship:  Evidence from Religious Minorities in the Former Holy Roman Empire.  By Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo ...

Socially excluded consumers tend to rely on affect to process information, and prefer persuasive messages based on feelings

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Speaking to the heart: Social exclusion and reliance on feelings versus reasons in persuasion. By Fang-Chi Lu , Jayati Sinh http://www.scien...

Expert ability can actually impair the accuracy of expert perception when judging others' performance

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Larson, J. S., & Billeter, D. M. (2017). Adaptation and fallibility in experts' judgments of novice performers. Journal of Experime...

Complex trauma in childhood, a psychiatric diagnosis in adulthood: Making meaning of a double-edged phenomenon

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Complex trauma in childhood, a psychiatric diagnosis in adulthood: Making meaning of a double-edged phenomenon. By McCormack, Lynne; Thoms...
Friday, June 2, 2017

Alemania reinventa la crisis energética. Por Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

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Alemania reinventa la crisis energética. Por Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB100014240527023044482045791857 2...

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Rules of Thumb for Bank Solvency Stress Testing. By Daniel C. Hardy and Christian Schmieder IMF Working Paper No. 13/232 November 11, 2013...
Sunday, May 7, 2017

Macroprudential Liquidity Stress Testing in FSAPs for Systemically Important Financial Systems

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Author/Editor: Andreas A. Jobst ; Christian Schmied...
Monday, January 9, 2017

A way to market to conservatives the science behind climate change more effectively

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Past-focused environmental comparisons promote pro-environmental outcomes for conservatives. By Matthew Baldwin and Joris Lammers http://ww...
Monday, December 26, 2016

What scientists think of themselves, other scientists and the population at large

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Who Believes in the Storybook Image of the Scientist? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989621.2016.1268922  Dec 2016 Abstra...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

My Unhappy Life as a Climate Heretic. By Roger Pielke Jr.

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My Unhappy Life as a Climate Heretic. By Roger Pielke Jr. My research was attacked by thought police in journalism, activist groups funded b...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

The Value of Prospective Reasoning for Close Relationships

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this is not only useful for close relationships:   The Value of Prospective Reasoning for Close Relationships Alex...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

The Great Recession Blame Game - Banks took the heat, but it was Washington that propped up subprime debt and then stymied recovery

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The Great Recession Blame Game Banks took the heat, but it was Washington that propped up subprime debt and then stymied recovery. By Ph...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

A New Tool for Avoiding Big-Bank Failures: ‘Chapter 14.’ By Emily C. Kapur and John B. Taylor

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A New Tool for Avoiding Big-Bank Failures: ‘Chapter 14.’ By Emily C. Kapur and John B. Taylor Bernie Sanders is right, Dodd-...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

The Secret of Immigrant Genius - Having your world turned upside down sparks creative thinking

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The Secret of Immigrant Genius. By Eric Weiner   Having your world turned upside down sparks creative thinking Wall Street Journal, Ja...