Two Marriage Documents from Kültepe

Two Documents Related to the Architecture of Estarabad Village Baths

Written sources on Iranian pre-modern architecture in Islamic middle ages are  very scarce. The material that is scattered in literary and historic texts is normally limited to monumental architecture, and mostly related to the architectural works and not to the process and the agents. Moreover, there is not much material on people's and vernacular architecture. However, there are surviving doc...

Protection of Archival Documents from Photochemical Eects

Purpose: ­The purpose of this paper is to highlight the destructive effects of light on archival documents/paper materials. ­The research aims to explain the mechanism of photochemical degradation and the damaging effect of light on paper. It also tells us about the measures to be adopted to control the deteriorating effects of light on paper step by step. Design/Methodology/Approach: Th­e res...

Who Benefits from Marriage?

The phenomenon that married men earn higher average wages than unmarried men, the so-called marriage premium, is well known. However, the robustness of the marriage premium across the wage distribution and the underlying causes of the marriage premium deserve closer scrutiny. Focusing on the entire wage distribution and employing recently developed semi-nonparametric tests for quantile treatmen...

Two Documents Related to the Architecture of Estarabad Village Baths

Written sources on Iranian pre-modern architecture in Islamic middle ages are  very scarce. The material that is scattered in literary and historic texts is normally limited to monumental architecture, and mostly related to the architectural works and not to the process and the agents. Moreover, there is not much material on people's and vernacular architecture. However, there are surviving doc...

A Parametri Two-Sided Model of Marriage