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Scandal, social movement, and change: evidence from #MeToo in Hollywood
(2020)Social movements have the potential to effect change in firm decision-making. In this paper, we examine whether the #MeToo movement, spurred by the Harvey Weinstein scandal, led to changes in the likelihood of Hollywood ... -
Food supply and the state: the history and social organization of the rice trade in Kisangani, Zaire
(Boston University, 1991)In Kisangani, as in other parts of Africa subject to political parasitism and economic chaos, people have had to draw on many channels of access to resources in order to survive. This pattern of shifting strategies ... -
A survey of North American city climate leaders: the prospects for climate action in the COVID-19 era
(Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy, 2020-10)We surveyed twenty-five U.S. and Canadian city climate leaders in July and August 2020 to assess the current priority of city climate action in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our key findings are summarized below. 1. ... -
State governments as financiers of technology startups: evidence from Michigan's R&D loan program
(Elsevier, 2020-05)State governments in the United States often fund and support technology startups within their borders. Yet little is known about the magnitude with which these place-based policy interventions shift the performance ... -
Doe without Jane: the gendered harms of pseudonymous litigation
(2020)This thesis, written in conjunction for the School of Law and Graduate School of Philosophy offers a legal and theoretical exploration of gendered pseudonymous litigation. Pseudonymous litigation, most commonly the use of ... -
Deciding on war and peace: the battle for British war powers in the post-Iraq era
(2020)Tony Blair’s extraordinary decision to ask for Parliament’s approval for British military deployment in the Iraq War prompted lingering questions about who decides on matters of war and peace in modern Britain. His successors’ ... -
Judicial deference to the executive branch at the State Court level
(2020)A study in the effects of the solicitor general on judicial deference to the executive branch at the state court level. There has been significant research done into the development of judicial deference, but it almost ... -
Predictors of low birth weight and preterm birth in rural Uganda: findings from a birth cohort study
BACKGROUND: Approximately 20.5 million infants were born weighing <2500 g (defined as low birthweight or LBW) in 2015, primarily in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Infants born LBW, including those born preterm ... -
Which social comparisons influence happiness with unequal pay?
(2020-09-24)We examine which social comparisons most affect happiness with pay that is unequally distributed (e.g., salaries and bonuses). We find that ensemble representation-attention to statistical properties of distributions such ... -
Aflatoxin exposure in pregnant women of mixed status of human immunodeficiency virus infection and rate of gestational weight gain: a Ugandan cohort study
(Wiley, 2020-09)OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between aflatoxin (AF) exposure during pregnancy and rate of gestational weight gain (GWG) in a sample of pregnant women of mixed HIV status in Gulu, northern Uganda. METHODS: 403 ...
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