Using data from China's Urban Household Survey and exploiting China's mandatory retirement policy, we use the regression discontinuity approach to estimate the impact of retirement on household expenditures. Retirement reduces total non-durable expenditures by 21 percent. Among the categories of non-durable expenditures, retirement reduces work-related expenditures and expenditures on food cons...

A growing number of scholars argues that we are witnessing a resurgenceof religion in world politics, accompanied by an increasein religiously inspired conflict. Empirical studies demonstrate thatreligious conflicts more violent, intense, durable, andmore difficult to resolve through negotiated settlements than theirsecular counterparts. In this paper, argue these conclusionsare unreliable, bec...

The Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is one of the most durable results virtual currencies, which goes beyond financial sector and impacts business applications in general. Developers can empower their solutions with DLT capabilities to attain such benefits as decentralization, transparency, non-repudiability actions security immutability data assets, price integrating a distributed ledger f...

gilan architecture, good examples of the coordination and integration with nature, the result of various factors, climatic, social, economic, cultural and ... has the greatest impact on the climate and nature is. it seems the area of architectural materials used to form the overall environment is affected. this architecture should be to identify the impact of climatic factors, construction of b...

An important problem to be addressed within Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is how to correctly and efficiently capture and process the event/action-based logic. This paper endeavors to bridge the gap between the Knowledge Representation (KR) approaches based on durable events/actions and such formalisms as event calculus, on one hand, and event-condition-action (ECA) reaction rules extending t...

How do social ties in online worlds evolve over time? This research examined the dynamic processes of relationship formation, maintenance, and demise in a massively multiplayer online game. Drawing from evolutionary and ecological theories of social networks, this study focuses on the impact of three sets of evolutionary factors in the context of social relationships in the online game EverQues...