In this interview conducted in June 2013 and translated by Alexis Cukier, Susan Fiske presents her conception of social categorizations, based on her ongoing research: the relationships between stereotypes, social structures and power. Susan Fiske ...

HIV/hepatitis C (HCV) coinfection is a major concern in global health today. Each pathogen can exacerbate the effects of the other and affect treatment outcomes. Understanding the within-host dynamics of these coinfecting pathogens is crucial, ...

ABSTRACT: Changing patterns of human aggregation are thought to drive annual and multiannual outbreaks of infectious diseases, but the paucity of data about travel behavior and population flux over time has made this idea difficult to test quantitatively. ...

Alan Krueger September, 2015 Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 54(4) Employment Macroeconomics Economics and Finance Labor Economics Download File External Link ...

SUMMARY: As the Ebola epidemic in West Africa continues, albeit at a much lower level than it reached in the spring, we still lack a vaccine that has been shown to be safe and effective. There has been no shortage of basic research: by 2009, at least ...

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg August, 2015 With Luis Garicano; Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 7 Economics and Finance External Link ...

In this article, we discuss the increasing interdependence of societies, focusing specifically on issues of systemic instability and fragility generated by the new and unprecedented level of connectedness and complexity resulting from globalization. We ...

We study the mechanics of cartel enforcement and its interaction with bidding constraints in the context of repeated procurement auctions. Under collusion, bidding constraints affect cartel behavior by limiting future pledgeable surplus. This yields a ...

We used longitudinal data from the Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). We defined two overlapping outcomes of measured weight loss between waves: >1.0 point of body mass index (BMI ...

Meg Jacobs August, 2015 In Gareth Davies and Julian E. Zelizer, eds., America At the Ballot Box: Elections and Political History Domestic Politics Download File ...