BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017
(GBD 2017) includes a comprehensive assessment of incidence, prevalence, and years …

This paper investigates the structural transformation associated with the 'twin transition'of
decarbonisation and digitalisation in European economies by placing it in a broader …

Why do certain countries display high gender equalities while others display low gender
equalities? To what extent does gender equality foster economic growth and development …

Background Population estimates underpin demographic and epidemiological research and
are used to track progress on numerous international indicators of health and development …

Comparative housing scholars have, for many years now, imported typologies from non-
housing spheres to explain housing phenomena. Notably, approaches attempting to …

This article presents a new measure of family-driven age-and gender-related inequalities.
This composite measure, which we call the Patriarchy Index, combines a range of variables …

This paper assesses the state of the art of economic history, focusing on recent changes that
have recently characterized the field. We rely on a new database of almost 2,700 articles …

Landscape appearance is controlled by a range of different environmental and human-
induced factors, although there is still a lack of knowledge about the significance of …

The growing appeal of the long-run perspective among economists and the fiftieth
anniversary of the publication of the Conrad and Meyer article (1958), which marked the …

This book addresses the functioning of financial markets, in particular the financial market
model, and modelling. More specifically, the book provides a model of adaptive preference …