68. Questionnaire on Dolls.

On Cholera in Persia, 1866-68

have occasionally added information obtained from other authentic sources, so as to render the text clear and connected throughout. I believe the outbreak to have been a link of the widespread epidemic of 1865, which penetrated into that kingdom by way of Bagdad, on the return of the pilgrims from Mecca, as related in the report of the International Cholera Conference of 1866, which treats of t...

Extending the capabilities of RMM: Russian Dolls and Hypertext

Hypermedia design is usually ad hoc. Whereas the original Relationship Management Methodology (RMM) provides a structured approach to design and implementation of hypermedia applications, it has limitations that constrain the usability of the kinds of applications it can construct. This paper provides extensions to RMM that enable it to model a much richer class of applications. Thereby making ...

P-68: Women

Income, Taxes and Happiness * Alpaslan Akay Olivier Bargain Mathias Dolls

We combine the subjective well-being and the public finance literature analyzing the effect of paying taxes on individual happiness. Using a long panel of very rich German household data we show that conditional on net income paying taxes is associated with higher levels of happiness. Increasing taxes by 1 standard deviation yields an increase in happiness by 2.7 standard deviations. In accorda...

Girls’ Plays with Dolls and Doll-Houses in Various Cultures

The article presents an analysis of the historical and contemporary context of girls’ plays with dolls and doll-houses. The anthropological materials about children's plays with dolls and doll-houses help to recreate the doll context as a cultural represent of evolutional development. The archaic functions of the doll used in rituals and traditional ceremonies objectivize the historically inher...