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sociology

Broadening the scope of anthropogenic influence in extreme event attribution

As extreme event attribution (EEA) matures, explaining the impacts of extreme events has risen to be a key focus for attribution scientists. Studies of this type usually assess the contribution of ant ...

Jézéquel Aglaé, Bastos Ana, Faranda Davide, Kimutai Joyce, Le Grix Natacha, Wilson Anna M, Rufat Samuel, Shepherd Theodore G, Stuart-Smith Rupert F, Van Loon Anne F

Environmental Research: Climate, Volume 3, Number 4, 2024

sociology

Vulnerability, Territory, Population. From Critique to Public Policy

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the term “vulnerable” was applied to “individuals” and to “populations”, “groups” and “countries” in discussions, laws and regulations; now it applies ...

Rufat Samuel, Metzger Pascale

Wiley, Geography of Risk, 2024

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