Monday, August 8, 2022

Yewtree, Savile, age of consent: The acute problems of proof which stale allegations entail also generates a demand that criminal courts should afford accusers therapy, by giving them ‘a voice’; this function is far removed from the courts’ traditional role, in which the state must prove defendants guilty beyond reasonable doubt

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Yewtree is destroying the rule of law. By Barbara Hewson. spiked, May 8 2013. With its emphasis on outcomes over process, the post-Savile wi...

Previous research claims that public awareness of censorship will lead to backlash against the regime; but individuals become desensitized to censorship when the range of censored content expands beyond politically threatening topics

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Yang, Tony, Normalization of Censorship: Evidence from China (November 2, 2021). SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3835217 Abstract: Prev...

Female fruit flies copy the acceptance, but not the rejection, of a mate

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Female fruit flies copy the acceptance, but not the rejection, of a mate. Sabine Nöbel, Magdalena Monier, Laura Fargeot, Guillaume Lespagnol...

The population is widely exposed to online false news; however, echo chambers are minimal, and the most avid readers of false news content regularly expose themselves to mainstream news sources

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Zhang, Jiding and Moon, Ken and Veeraraghavan, Senthil K., Does Fake News Create Echo Chambers? (June 23, 2022). SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10....

Nearshoring in Mexico: In 2018-2021 the proportion of manufactured goods imported into the US from Mexico barely changed; Asian countries but China increased their share of US manufactured goods imports from 12.6 pct to 17.4 pct

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Why Mexico is missing its chance to profit from US-China decoupling. Michael Stott and Christine Murray. Financial Times Jul 3 2022. https:/...
Sunday, August 7, 2022

Parishes affected by the Dissolution of the English monasteries, 1535, experienced a rise of the gentry & had more innovation, higher yield in agriculture, more population working outside of agriculture, & ultimately higher levels of industrialization

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The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries. Leander Heldring, James A Robinson, Sebastian Vollmer. The Quarterly Jour...

Probability of males to outlive females: an international comparison from 1751 to 2020

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Probability of males to outlive females: an international comparison from 1751 to 2020. Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher et al. BMJ Open, Volume ...

If children with low socio-economic level parents were to grow up in counties with economic connectedness comparable to that of the average child with high level parents, their incomes in adulthood would increase by 20% on average

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Social Capital I: Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility. Raj Chetty, Matthew O. Jackson, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, N...

How does early menopause and menopause symptoms affect women’s careers? The conservative estimate of the cost of early menopause for a woman is £20k, while the cost of suffering an average level of menopause symptoms is £10k

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The consequences of early menopause and menopause symptoms for labour market participation. Alex Bryson et al. Social Science & Medicine...
Saturday, August 6, 2022

Men, particularly those who declare being interested in politics, take longer than women to admit that they do not know the answer to political knowledge items

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How long does it take to admit that you do not know? Gender differences in response time to political knowledge questions. Mónica Ferrín, Ge...