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French Consumers' Attitudes and Preferences Toward Wild and Farmed Fish by Rickertsen, Kyrre, Alfnes, Frode, Combris, Pierre, Enderli, Géraldine, Issanchou, Sylvie, Shogren, Jason F

“…We investigated consumer preferences for wild and farmed fish in an experiment with 276 participants in France. The experiment consisted of three rounds—each…”
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Finding the Genomic Basis of Local Adaptation: Pitfalls, Practical Solutions, and Future Directions by Hoban, Sean, Kelley, Joanna L., Lotterhos, Katie E., Antolin, Michael F., Bradburd, Gideon, Lowry, David B., Poss, Mary L., Reed, Laura K., Storfer, Andrew, Whitlock, Michael C.

“…Uncovering the genetic and evolutionary basis of local adaptation is a major focus of evolutionary biology. The recent development of cost-effective methods…”
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Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory by Card, David, Cardoso, Ana Rute, Heining, Joerg, Kline, Patrick

“…We synthesize two related literatures on firm-level drivers of wage inequality. Studies of rent sharing that use matched worker-firm data find elasticities of…”
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Gender as “Ebola from Brussels”: The Anticolonial Frame and the Rise of Illiberal Populism by Korolczuk, Elżbieta, Graff, Agnieszka

“…This article examines the recent wave of grassroots mobilizations opposing gender equality, LGBT rights, and sex education, which vilify the term “gender” in…”
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Animal-Microbe Interactions in the Context of Diapause by Mushegian, Alexandra A., Tougeron, Kévin

“…Dormancy and diapause are key adaptations in many organisms, enabling survival of temporarily or seasonally unsuitable environmental conditions. In this…”
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Mechanisms of Assortative Mating in Speciation with Gene Flow: Connecting Theory and Empirical Research by Kopp, Michael, Servedio, Maria R., Mendelson, Tamra C., Safran, Rebecca J., Rodríguez, Rafael L., Hauber, Mark E., Scordato, Elizabeth C., Symes, Laurel B., Balakrishnan, Christopher N., Zonana, David M., van Doorn, G. Sander

“…The large body of theory on speciation with gene flow has brought to light fundamental differences in the effects of two types of mating rules on speciation:…”
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Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s by Acemoglu, Daron, Autor, David, Dorn, David, Hanson, Gordon H., Price, Brendan

“…Even before the Great Recession, US employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved…”
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Coupling, Reinforcement, and Speciation by Butlin, Roger K., Smadja, Carole M.

“…During the process of speciation, populations may diverge for traits and at their underlying loci that contribute barriers to gene flow. These barrier traits…”
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Nominal Rigidities and the Dynamic Effects of a Shock to Monetary Policy by Christiano, Lawrence J., Eichenbaum, Martin, Evans, Charles L.

“…We present a model embodying moderate amounts of nominal rigidities that accounts for the observed inertia in inflation and persistence in output. The key…”
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INORDINATE FONDNESS MULTIPLIED AND REDISTRIBUTED: THE NUMBER OF SPECIES ON EARTH AND THE NEW PIE OF LIFE by Larsen, Brendan B., Miller, Elizabeth C., Rhodes, Matthew K., Wiens, John J.

“…The number of species on Earth is one of the most fundamental numbers in science, but one that remains highly uncertain. Clearly, more species exist than the…”
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Save More Tomorrow™: Using Behavioral Economics to Increase Employee Saving by Thaler, Richard H., Benartzi, Shlomo

“…As firms switch from defined‐benefit plans to defined‐contribution plans, employees bear more responsibility for making decisions about how much to save. The…”
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Skill requirements across firms and labor markets: Evidence from job postings for professionals by Deming, David, Kahn, Lisa B

“…We study variation in skill demands for professionals across firms and labor markets. We categorize a wide range of keywords found in job ads into 10 general…”
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Selection on observed and unobserved variables: Assessing the effectiveness of Catholic schools by Altonji, Joseph G, Elder, Todd E, Taber, Christopher R

“…In this paper we measure the effect of Catholic high school attendance on educational attainment and test scores. Because we do not have a good instrumental…”
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Thermoregulatory Behavior Simultaneously Promotes and Forestalls Evolution in a Tropical Lizard by Muñoz, Martha M., Losos, Jonathan B.

“…The role of behavior in evolution has long been discussed, with some arguing that behavior promotes evolution by exposing organisms to selection (behavioral…”
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Beyond Thermal Performance Curves: Modeling Time-Dependent Effects of Thermal Stress on Ectotherm Growth Rates by Kingsolver, Joel G., Woods, H. Arthur

“…Thermal performance curves have been widely used to model the ecological responses of ectotherms to variable thermal environments and climate change. Such…”
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Understanding peer effects: On the nature, estimation, and channels of peer effects by Feld, Jan, Zölitz, Ulf

“…This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on…”
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A Unified Framework for Monetary Theory and Policy Analysis by Lagos, Ricardo, Wright, Randall

“…Search‐theoretic models of monetary exchange are based on explicit descriptions of the frictions that make money essential. However, tractable versions of…”
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The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology since the Eighties by Allen, Jafari Sinclaire, Jobson, Ryan Cecil, Channa, Subhadra Mitra, Schiller, Nina Glick, Hale, Charles R., Nyamnjoh, Francis B.

“…In the wake of anthropology’s much storied crisis of representation; attempted corrections following movements of “Third World” peoples, women, and queer…”
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When Do Covariates Matter? And Which Ones, and How Much? by Gelbach, Jonah B.

“…Authors often add covariates to a base model sequentially either to test a particular coefficient’s “robustness” or to account for the “effects” on this…”
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The Evolution of Energetic Scaling across the Vertebrate Tree of Life by Uyeda, Josef C., Pennell, Matthew W., Miller, Eliot T., Maia, Rafael, McClain, Craig R.

“…Metabolism is the link between ecology and physiology—it dictates the flow of energy through individuals and across trophic levels. Much of the predictive…”
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