According to the US government, the Russian government is developing a programme to arm some of its satellites with nuclear warheads. Should the Kremlin acquire this capability, it could destroy key parts of the civilian satellite infrastructure by detonating a single nuclear weapon in low Earth...

There is a lack of understanding of what may drive gender disparities in healthcare utilization and outcomes. We present novel evidence on the impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality using standardized patients (SPs) in an experiment, and collected interactions between SPs...

In den ersten beiden Jahrzehnten nach dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs Anfang der 1990er Jahre spielte der Internationale Währungsfonds (IWF) für die operative Wirtschaftspolitik, aber auch für die Gestaltung von Institutionen in Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländern eine wichtige Rolle. Dies lag...