This article estimates a count-data model on the flight behaviour of Austrian holiday-makers based information from large representative quarterly survey spanning years 2014–2016. On average, number holiday flights ranges between 0.6 and 1.2 per year for residents in least populated region capital, respectively. Results estimations reveal that is highest persons with tertiary degrees, young age...

This paper discusses research on men's reproductive health and sexuality in Oaxaca, Mexico, and specifically why some men there choose to be sterilized. Men who opt for vasectomies do so after considering numerous cultural, historical, physiological, commercial, and other concerns. Men and women in Oaxaca negotiate certain cultural folk beliefs about supposed male sexual desires and practices b...

Gender inequalities in mortality/life expectancy have been a major area of research in the social sciences since the 1970s. However, the questions posed and the research strategies used are still in a state of flux. In the present paper we shed some light on two related questions: (i) Which socioeconomic variables determine the gender gap in mortality? (ii) Are male and female mortality rates d...

The vast majority of existing studies that estimate the average unexplained gender pay gap use unnecessarily restrictive linear versions Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. Using a notably rich and large data set 1.7 million employees in Switzerland, we investigate how methodological improvements made possible by such big affect estimates gap. We study sensitivity with regard to i) availability obser...

Non-governmental organisations operate as nodes in networks of ‘managerialism’ – bundles of often Northern, corporate-inspired knowledge and practices that promote ‘good governance’ under neoliberalism. Managerialism is double-sided: it can guard against corruption and help ensure accountability, but it can also be culturally disjunctive, reinforcing North–South power imbalances while diffusing...

Since 1940, when Mazzotti first reported human cases of Chagas’ disease in Mexico (observed at the town of Teojomulco in Oaxaca State--I), over 150 parasitologically confirmed acute and chronic cases have been reported, most of them in Mexico’s Pacific zone (2). During this period there have been seven epidemiologic investigations of Chagas’ disease in Mexico: the first by Biagi and colleagues ...

A large literature focuses on the use of propensity score methods as a semi-parametric alternative to regression for estimation of average treatments e¤ects. We show here that the classic regression based estimator of counterfactual means studied by Alan Blinder (1973) and Ronald Oaxaca (1973) constitutes a propensity score reweighting estimator based upon a linear model for the conditional odd...

We describe a new terrestrial species of minute lungless salamander of the Mexican genus Thorius (Plethodontidae) from montane pine-oak forests in the Sierra de Juarez of north central Oaxaca, Mexico. The new species is distinguished from congeners by a combination of body size, external morphology, osteology, and dental traits, and it is well differentiated genetically from other named species...

In different regions of Mexico, speech may have local distinctive characteristics at language levels. The article deals with the grammatical features Spanish in territory Mexican state Oaxaca. raises following questions: 1) whether Oaxaca has certain characteristics; 2) there is a formation territorial norms this or we can only talk about occasional use forms. Examples are given showing presenc...