results in the first step, holy quran helps people avoid depression and in this regard introduces factors such as “sincerity”, “resistance”, “virtue”, “trust in god”, “belief”, “good deeds” and etc. as grief protection factors. a bunch of holy quran verses, with precise and meticulous look, point to the causes of grief such as “punishment of sins in this world and the hereafter”, “financial and...

This paper estimates the markup for the Mexican manufacturing sector to detect the impact of trade liberalization on market power. Using Hall’s proposal that states that a procyclical Solow residual is an indication of market power, this research estimates the markup for different periods to detect the change in market power after trade liberalization was implemented. We account for the potenti...

MOST PEOPLE AGREE that stock prices sometimes behave in strange ways. Going beyond this simple observation typically proves more difficult. For at least the past quarter century, economists have been well aware that the variation of stock prices does not nicely match the familiar bell-shaped normal distribution.1 The problem is too many extreme movements. Very large increases or decreases would...

Being human implies a particular moral status: having moral value, agency, and responsibility. However, people are not seen as equally human. Across two studies, we examine the consequences that subtle variations in the perceived humanness of actors or groups have for their perceived moral status. Drawing on Haslam's two-dimensional model of humanness and focusing on three ways people may be co...

• Public praise in schools leads to better student performance on standardized exams. Better exam is driven by the students of praised teachers. There no effect grades non-praised treated Praised teachers give higher two months after intervention. Non-praised lower Financial incentive programs for are increasingly common, but little known about effectiveness non-monetary incentives improving ed...

Channel repertoires, the subsets of available channels that viewers actually watch, have typically been measured by relying on respondent recall. Using minute-by-minute peoplemeter data from Beijing, this study operationalized channel repertoire as the channels actually watched for 10 or more consecutive minutes during the week. On average, Chinese viewers used 13 channels, about one third of t...