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More than 30 million titles of "academic" articles, from the years 1945-2001, were surveyed for occurrences of the words sex and gender. At the beginning of this period, uses of gender were much rarer than uses of sex, and often used in the sense of a grammatical category. By the end of this period, uses of gender outnumbered uses of sex in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. Within the ...

1 University Koblenz-Landau, Institute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Germany 2 Leibniz Universität Hannover, Forschungszentrum Küste, Germany 3 University Koblenz-Landau, Institute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Germany 4 University Stuttgart, Institute for Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, Germany 5 University Koblenz-Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences...

This article includes a unique data set of a balanced daily (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) for oil and natural gas volatility and the oil rich economies' stock markets for Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Bahrain and Oman, using daily data over the period spanning Oct. 18, 2006-July 30, 2015. Additionally, we have included unique GAUSS codes for estimating the spillover asymmetri...

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