Who gets to judge?

Who is to judge?

Who gets to look nice and who gets to play? Effects of child gender on household expenditures

We examine the relationship between a child’s gender and family expenditure using data from the Polish Household Budget Survey. Having a firstborn daughter as compared with a first-born son increases the level of household expenditures on child and adult female clothing, and it reduces spending on games, toys and hobbies. This could be a reflection of a pure gender bias on behalf of the parents...

Who gets measles in Europe?

BACKGROUND Measles outbreaks continue to occur in Europe as a result of suboptimum vaccination coverage. This article aims to describe individuals susceptible to measles, and provide an overview of affected groups and the public settings in which measles transmission occurred in Europe in 2005-2009. METHODS Individuals susceptible to measles were described and categorized on the basis of fact...

Who Gets to the Top? Generalists versus Specialists in Organizations

We propose a model of communication in organizations in which the quality of communication depends on the match between senders and receivers of messages. The model allows for two dimensions of knowledge: breadth and depth. Specialists have deep knowledge of few areas while generalists have super…cial knowledge of many areas. Generalists are useful because they can communicate with many di¤eren...

Newspapers vs. Blogs: Who Gets the Scoop?

Blogs and formal news sources both monitor the events of the day, but with substantially different frames of reference. In this paper, we report on experiments comparing over 500,000 blog postings with the contents of 66 daily newspapers over the same six week period. We compare the prevalence of popular topics in the blogspace and news, and in particular analyze lead/lag relationships in frequ...