Category: Volume 57 Issue 2
Son Preference: An Empirical Study of Estate Distribution in Wills, (Vol. 57.2 Spring 2025)
Yun-chien Chang, Sieh-Chuen Huang & Su-Li Her
Despite a plethora of normative discussions on gender equality as well as empirical studies on gender discrimination and gender effects in various settings, there is a paucity of large-scale empirical studies on son preference by ordinary people in asset distribution. Using an idiosyncratic data set on more than 1800 notarized or authenticated wills in Taiwan,…
Jul 2025
Industrial Policy and the New Internationalism: After the Liberal International Order, (Vol. 57.2, Spring 2025)
Georgios Dimitropoulos
Financial and economic crises, pandemics, border closures, supply chain disruptions, wars, political uncertainty have fundamentally changed the way governments view economic development. Broad-based government interventions are now the order of the day. Many names have been given to the emerging new economics of in-tervention: “homeland economics,” the “new productivism paradigm,” “supply side progressivism,” “neomercantilism,” “new…
Jul 2025