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Genocide, women’s empowerment, and intergenerational transmission of violent attitudes 种族灭绝、赋予妇女权力和暴力态度的代际传递

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107266

Daniel Kammer , Alina Greiner-Filsinger

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Conflicts and prosocial preferences 冲突和亲社会偏好

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107264

Dawoon Jung

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Unemployment impact of network sectors and employment protection legislation reforms: Evidence from selected african countries 网络部门对失业的影响与就业保护立法改革：来自选定非洲国家的证据

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107304

Kwamivi Mawuli Gomado , Isaac Amedanou

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Government data accessibility and firm dynamics: Encouraging entrepreneurship or accelerating exit? 政府数据可及性与企业动态：鼓励创业还是加速退出？

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107283

Desheng Wu , Yu Xie

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Does institutional design matter? Constitutional regime types and party system closure in Asia 制度设计重要吗？亚洲宪政体制类型与政党制度封闭

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107217

Don S. Lee , Fernando Casal Bértoa

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Catastrophe’s long reach: How historical natural disasters shape modern entrepreneurship? 灾难的长期影响：历史上的自然灾害如何塑造现代企业家精神？

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107277

Weihua Yu , Jinfei Niu , Xin Yao , Chenchen Deng

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The long shadow of natural disasters: educational impacts of the 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh 自然灾害的长期阴影：1991年孟加拉国旋风对教育的影响

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107286

Chowdhury Abdullah-Al-Baki , Ali Ahmed

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What will it mean to end poverty? 终结贫困意味着什么？

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107308

Joshua D. Merfeld , Jonathan Morduch

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The defanging effect of education and autocratic survival 教育的拔尖效应和专制生存

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World Development Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107294

Raouf Boucekkine , Rodolphe Desbordes , Paolo Melindi-Ghidi

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Labor law and workplace injuries 劳动法和工伤