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I wrote this thesis to create a better understanding of how individual characteristics influence our feelings, our behavior and our way of interpreting information. My focus is on financial behavior and financial information, however I also consider a political context. I investigate the (usually) enabling abilities of financial literacy and numeracy. I also consider impediments such as stereotype threat and motivated reasoning, which can prevent people from engaging in certain behaviors or from interpreting information objectively. Both processes stem from valued beliefs and psychological foundations, consequently peoples’ efforts, decisions, and evaluations are based on them. The first e...
This book showcases the potential of computational approaches for research questions at the heart of migration and integration research via a set of original, cutting-edge empirical studies by a diverse, international team of authors. Why do people emigrate? Do weather conditions and climate change affect decisions to migrate? How do migration networks evolve on a global scale? Can we predict refugee movements? How do host communities respond to the influx of refugees? Do right-wing populist parties get stronger where lots of refugees are located? Do terror attacks lead to more hostility towards immigrants? What mechanisms explain neighborhood ethnic segregation? The collection of studies in...
But these operas are far more than imitations: they show an apprehension of convention and genre that is nothing less than a dismantling of accepted formulas, and a highly original reconstruction of them."--Jacket.
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300 Jahre GU - eine einzigartige Verlagsgeschichte in drei Bänden. Der erste Band berichtet über die Gründerphase und Entstehung von Buchhandlung und Verlag, zeigt die wechselvolle Geschichte dieser beiden Geschäftszweige, ihrer Trennungen und Wiedervereinigungen, ihrer prominentesten Vertreter und wichtigsten Veröffentlichungen bis hin zum Neuanfang nach 1945. Der zweite Band stellt die orchestrierte Entwicklung zum Markenverlag von 1950 bis 2022 dar und veranschaulicht, wie eine Handelsmarke in der deutschen Buchbranche erfolgreich Fuß fassen konnte und zur Benchmark wurde. Der dritte Band, ausschließlich elektronisch vorhanden, liefert ein komplettes Verzeichnis aller in diesem Unternehmen erschienener Werke.
Title of the first 10 volumes of the series is Germans to America : lists of passengers arriving at U.S. ports 1850-1855.