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sociology

The Total Effect of Social Origins on Educational Attainment: Meta-analysis of Sibling Correlations From 18 Countries

The sibling correlation (SC), which estimates the total effect of family background (i.e., social origins), can be interpreted as measuring a society's inequality of opportunity. Its sensitivity to ob ...

Anderson Lewis R., Prag Patrick, Akimova Evelina T., Monden Christiaan

Demography 11579806., 2024

economics

How the "Ramsey formula" came to define time discounting in economics (1950-2000)

This article investigates the emergence and stabilization of the Ramsey formula as a major framework for discounting in economics. Despite widespread belief, the formula did not originate in Frank Ram ...

Cherrier Beatrice, Garcia Duarte Pedro

SSRN, 2024

sociology

Context matters when evacuating large cities: Shifting the focus from individual characteristics to location and social vulnerability

Climate change is driving extreme weather, heat and flooding, which increasingly require evacuations. Recent studies have found inconclusive results on the determinants of evacuation-related decisions ...

Rufat Samuel, Comby Emeline, Lhomme Serge, Santoni Victor

Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 162, December 2024, 103925, 2024

finance

On the chaotic expansion for counting processes

We introduce and study an alternative form of the chaotic expansion for Poisson functionals, using a very specific (non-equivalent) Girsanov transformation; we name this alternative form pseudo-chaoti ...

Hillairet Caroline, Réveillac Anthony

Electron. J. Probab. 29 1 - 33, 2024