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ESRC Centre for Population Change

ing from heterogeneity in number of children: The average number of children by income quintile are reported in Table 6. However, the facts described in Section 2 also hold when conditioning on number of children (1, 2 or 3+).12 There are economies of scale in child care, i.e., a level effect, but the cross-sectional patterns hold for each type of family.13 Thus, this variation is not the main ...

ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change

Discovered around 1979, coronary angioplasty has emerged to be one of the principal treatments for advanced coronary artery disease. This paper uses methods from social network analysis to understand how this mode of treatment developed. By using a bibiliographic database of over 11,000 medical journal articles related to coronary angioplasty spanning the 25 years of its history, a large citati...

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

Net Migration in Nebraska: Trends in the Working- Age Population

ESRC UK Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice: Working Paper 6

This paper is a contribution to the methodological work of the ESRC UK Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice, and part of an attempt to broaden the applications and techniques of systematic review. It takes the form of an embryonic review of public disclosure, a policy better known as 'naming and shaming'. Six initiatives are examined in order to develop an elementary theory of the cond...