Obesity and overweight are linked to diseases that cost society a significant amount of resources. While behavior modification can reduce the problem, instigating such lifestyle changes is an uneasy task. One potential way to reduce the problem is through the use of financial incentives. In this...

This paper examines the link between violent attacks of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, forced migration, and the empowerment of women in host communities. The paper finds positive effects of distant attacks on the economic well-being of women, their use of modern contraceptive methods,...

Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification – this is also the approach used by numerous studies analyzing the relative capital-skill...

Using a data set of historical battles from 1600 to 1973, this paper analyzes the empirical determinants of tactical success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements of military theory as factors in the production of combat success, formalized in a military...

Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification – this is also the approach used by numerous studies analyzing the relative capital-skill...

Die Verdichtung von Informationen zu einer Kennzahl scheint praktisch: Sie erleichtert den globalen Vergleich verschiedener Länder. Aus der Positionierung innerhalb eines Rankings werden wirtschaftspolitische Empfehlungen abgeleitet. Der Politik wird signalisiert, genau an den Einzelkennziffern...

Der Rohstoffgehalt der Erdkruste ist endlich. Diese unumstößliche Tatsache löst in Zeiten hoher Rohstoffpreise immer wieder große Besorgnis um die derzeitige, vor allem aber um die zukünftige Rohstoffversorgung aus. Gestützt auf die Medien schüren besonders Interessengruppen derartige...