The Twin Ideals: An Educated Commonwealth

The Twin Ideals

Do Educated Women Make Bad Mothers? Twin Studies of the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

“Does increasing women’s schooling raise the schooling of the next generation?” is the question posed by Jere Behrman and Mark Rosenzweig (2002) in their eponymous article. Their answer to the question is no. In fact, they conclude that raising women’s schooling may even lower the schooling of the next generation. In this paper, we show that Behrman and Rosenzweig’s results are not robust to al...

The Commonwealth of Cells

We are often asked to recommend a small book on physiology that gives a simple and readable outline, and which can be understood by those who have had no training in the sciences. This book will answer the purpose admirably. As the title indicates, the author keeps before us throughout the book the cellular structure of the various tissues of the body, with the result that a more uniform and co...

RESIDUAL OF IDEALS OF AN L-RING

The concept of right (left) quotient (or residual) of an ideal η by anideal ν of an L-subring μ of a ring R is introduced. The right (left) quotients areshown to be ideals of μ . It is proved that the right quotient [η :r ν ] of an idealη by an ideal ν of an L-subring μ is the largest ideal of μ such that[η :r ν ]ν ⊆ η . Most of the results pertaining to the notion of quotients(or residual) of ...

Twin-twin transfusion syndrome: an update.

Twin-twin transfusion syndrome leads to high rates of perinatal morbidity and mortality due to its poorly understood etiology and difficult diagnosing and treatment. Current therapies are suboptimal and have not been tested through randomized controlled trials. Parent counseling at the time of diagnosis includes informing on poor chance of double survival, relatively high chance of long term ne...