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ACM Digital Library; Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA); Bacon’s Media Directory; Burrelle’s Media Directory; Cabell’s Directories; CSA Illumina; DBLP; Gale Directory of Publications & Broadcast Media; GetCited; Google Scholar; INSPEC; JournalTOCs; Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA); MediaFinder; Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD); PsycINFO®; SCOPUS; The Ind...

If preferences or budgets are heterogeneous across people (as they clearly are), then individual costof-living indices are also heterogeneous. Thus, any social cost-of-living index faces an aggregation problem. In this paper, we provide a solution to this problem which we call a ’common-scaling’social cost-of-living index (CS-SCOLI). In addition, we describe nonparametric methods for estimating...

SISBEN is a proxy means test index widely used as a targeting system for social programs in Colombia. The SISBEN index is a function of a set of household variables related to the consumption of durable goods, human capital endowment and current income. SISBEN was created by the Colombian government with the purpose of simplifying, expediting and reducing the cost of targeting individual benefi...

This study empirically assesses the influence of globalization on the institutional root causes of gender equality as measured by the new OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI). We capture the multifaceted concept of globalization with the KOF index and its three sub-indices which measure the economic, social and political dimensions of globalization. Observing the progress of globali...

BACKGROUND Journal editors have exercised their control over submitted papers having a high similarity index. Despite widespread suspicion of possible plagiarism on a high similarity index, our study focused on the real effect of the similarity index on the value of a scientific paper. METHODS This research examined the percent values of the similarity index from 978 submitted (420 published)...

The measurement of social polarization has received little attention from the literature. The only social polarization index that has been used to measure religious or ethnic polarization (the RQ index) has several shortcomings that are critically discussed in the paper. In particular, that index is not taking into account the existing distance between and within di¤erent groups. A couple of ax...