Writers’ correspondence makes a significant and valuable part of literary studies, discovering life creative portraits writers representatives their families, thus expanding objectively outlining the research horizons Ukrainian process. The aim proposed article is to partially highlight creative, public cultural-enlightening activities Vasyl Stefanyk’s three sons – Semen, Kyrylo Yurii, written ...

Highly imbalanced sex ratios suggest that Asian families prefer sons. This preference may be expressed as reduction in parental investment in daughters when a younger son is born. This study investigates the gender effect of a younger sibling on older daughter's schooling. We construct a unique dataset linking national administrative data on college entrance examinations (CET) to birth registry...

The population of Ireland was originally Roman Catholic but was diluted after the Elizabethan campaigns by Anglicans and the Plantation of Ulster by Scottish Presbyterians. While there may have been a Presbyterian church near the North Gate in either Hercules Street or North Street in Belfast, the well documented but later meeting houses were established late in the seventeenth century in Rosem...

Men with a family history of alcoholism appear to have a lower intensity reaction to alcoholʼs effects than those without this family history. This study investigated whether a lower reaction could encourage greater alcohol consumption among family history-positive (FHP) subjects, predisposing them to develop alcohol-related problems. A family history of alcoholism was associated with increased...