This paper examines the relationships between employment status, social capital, and the political participation of young people. To do so, we compare young long-term unemployed, precarious youth, and regularly employed youth. These are three groups that have a different employment status, going from being totally integrated to being fully excluded from the labor market, passing through a sort ...

This paper studies moderate deviation behaviors of the generalized method of moments and generalized empirical likelihood estimators for generalized estimating equations, where the number of equations can be larger than the number of unknown parameters. We consider two cases for the data generating probability measure: the model assumption and local contaminations or deviations from the model a...

The uniqueness of the antebellum South continues to challenge the imagination of Americans, who, despite persistent attempts, cannot divert their attention from slavery. Nor should they, for slavery provided the foundation on which the South rose and grew. The master-slave relationship permeated Southern life and influenced relationships among free men. A full history would have to treat the im...

We generalize results concerning C0-semigroups on Banach lattices to a setting of ordered Banach spaces. We prove that the generator of a disjointness preserving C0-semigroup is local. Some basic properties of local operators are also given. We investigate cases where local operators generate local C0-semigroups, by using Taylor series or Yosida approximations. As norms we consider regular norm...

It is so common that it may be considered almost universal among second order cyberneticians, to identify second order cybernetics and radical constructivism, distinguished as opposite sides of the same coin. It is perhaps not so common that radical constructivists make this equation: they seem much more interested in the influence of radical constructivism in other subjects, especially educati...

The news media play an important role in informing the public on current events. Yet it has been difficult to understand the comprehensiveness of news media coverage on an event and how the reactions that the coverage evokes may diverge, because this requires identifying the origin of an event and tracing the information all the way to individuals who consume the news. In this work, we pinpoint...

Recent empirical studies suggest that social networks, according to which communication takes place, have a significant impact on traders’ financial decisions. Motivated by this evidence, we propose an asset pricing model in which agents communicate information according to a social network. In the proposed model, agents initially have imperfect and diverse information about the asset payoff st...

Heinz von Foerster proposed that the observer should be included in the domain of observation. He suggested that this approach to cybernetics be called second-order cybernetics. Heinz was primarily interested in understanding cognition, based on neurophysiology and mathematics. But there has also been strong interest in cybernetics as a theory of social systems. Using the “second order” idea fo...

It is shown that if X is a random variable whose density satisfies a Poincaré inequality, and Y is an independent copy of X, then the entropy of (X + Y )/ √ 2 is greater than that of X by a fixed fraction of the entropy gap between X and the Gaussian of the same variance. The argument uses a new formula for the Fisher information of a marginal, which can be viewed as a local, reverse form of th...

The multidimensional view of well-being is receiving growing attention, both in academic research and policy-oriented analysis. This paper examines empirical strategies to measure poverty and inequality in multiple domains, concentrating on two problems in the use of synthetic multidimensional indices: the weighting structure of different functionings and the functional form of the index. These...