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COLONISATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSIFICATION IN UNFAMILIAR LANDSCAPES (UP-NORTH)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2014, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2019,
This project explores the relationship between climate change and human behaviour. During the harshest conditions of the last ice age European human populations abandoned northern latitudes, with their range contracting to southern regions. By the time ice sheets retreated and large areas of land became available for resettlement there had been a hiatus of at least 7000 years. This project examin ...
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"Making Selves, Making Revolutions: Comparative Anthropologies of Revolutionary Politics" (CARP)
Date du début: 1 juin 2014, Date de fin: 31 mai 2019,
"What kinds of self does it take to make a revolution? And how does revolutionary politics, understood as a project of personal as much as political transformation, articulate with other processes of self-making, such as religious practices? Comparative Anthropologies of Revolutionary Politics (CARP) seeks fundamentally to recast our understanding of revolutions, using their relationship to religi ...
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Families and food poverty in three European Countries in an Age of Austerity (FFP)
Date du début: 1 mai 2014, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2019,
Food poverty in the global North is emerging as an urgent social and moral concern, increasingly recognized as a central issue in the field of health inequalities in industrialized countries. With widening income disparity in Austerity Europe and ‘the end of cheap food’, these effects are being exacerbated. International media report an increase in the number of children arriving at school hungry, ...
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Microeconometrics of Consumer and Labour Supply Behaviour (MicroConLab)
Date du début: 1 févr. 2014, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2019,
The aim of this research programme is to significantly enhance our knowledge of consumer and labour supply behaviour using frontier microeconometric analysis. The objective is to improve our understanding of how individuals make choices, how they react to changes in the economic environment and how they respond to policy reforms. There are two key aspects to the proposed research. The first is to ...
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Emerging Subjects of the New Economy: Tracing Economic Growth in Mongolia (Emerging Subjects)
Date du début: 1 sept. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2018,
This project examines how predicted economic growth is experienced by people in Mongolia with the advent of large-scale mining operations. Our project will generate new insight into two areas of concern for economic anthropology and beyond. First we will examine the way that the economy is unfolding in a distinct way in East Asia through different kinds of predictive narratives that come to have ...
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Econometric Analysis of Interaction Models (InterMetrix)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2013, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2018,
Equilibrium models are one of the pillars of Economics. This proposal focuses on methodological and empirical studies of estimable game theoretic and social interactions models where observed outcomes are assumed to be determined in equilibrium. Ignoring this simultaneity in estimation and inference is likely to mislead conclusions and produce flawed counterfactual analyses.One pervasive feature ...
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Savings and Risks Over the Lifecycle: Theory and Evidence (Savings and Risks)
Date du début: 1 mars 2014, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2018,
People save for many reasons, such as to finance their retirement, to leave bequests to others, to start and develop a business, and to self-insure against risks. When young, these risks include wage risk, unemployment risk, entrepreneurial risk, and divorce risk. When old, one risks living to a very old age and running out of assets, being hit by expensive medical needs, and losing one’s spouse. ...
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Identifying Spillovers in the Labour Market (SPILL)
Date du début: 1 févr. 2013, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2018,
Why are firms willing to locate in dense areas although production costs are much higher in metropolitan than in rural areas? As first hypothesized by Marshall (1890), this may be explained by cost or productivity advantages enjoyed by firms when they locate near other firms. The goal of this project is to provide novel evidence on the existence and sources of such agglomeration effects.In the fir ...
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