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Richie, Donald, and Charlie Canning. "Eight American Authors." TESOL Journal 1, no. 1 (2010): 179–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5054/tj.2010.215612.

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Jerbi, Syrine. "Unveiling the tapestry of Arab American writings." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 5, no. 2 (2023): 384–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v5i2.1362.

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Arab Americans living in the United States are represented in the intriguing and varied body of Arab American Literature. It is a diverse and significant body of writing that reflects the experiences and perspectives of Arab Americans in the United States. It explores powerful examples of how difficult it is to deal with identity, heritage, and belonging concerns in a diverse community. Arab American writers, from Ameen Rihani to Naomi Shihab Nye, have made creative contributions with their viewpoints, illuminating the rich tapestry of life in Arab America in everything from provocative novels to tender poetry and perceptive essays. However, Arab American authors have faced numerous challenges, including prejudice, stereotypes, language barriers, and limited publishing opportunities. Despite these obstacles, they have persisted in using their literary works as a means of self-expression, cultural preservation, and empowerment. To promote the visibility and acknowledgment of Arab American voices, readers, institutions, and literary communities must actively support and endorse Arab American authors and their work. Arab American Literature contributes to a more inclusive and interconnected society, dispelling myths and fostering empathy and understanding across cultural divides.
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Chen, Yufeng, and Saroja Dorairajoo. "American Muslims’ Da’wah Work and Islamic Conversion." Religions 11, no. 8 (2020): 383. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11080383.

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Prior to the “9/11 attacks”, negative images of Islam in America were prevalent, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks made the situation for, and image of, Islam more sinister than before. Notwithstanding the extreme Islamophobia, one notes that, ironically in America, more people have been embracing Islam since, at least, the beginning of the twentieth century. Conversion to Islam in America seems to be a deviation from the adverse American public opinions towards Islam. An important question that, therefore, arises is: “Why are Americans converting to Islam despite negative public perception of the religion?” Perhaps Americans have been coerced into conversion by Muslim preachers through the latter’s meticulous and hard-hitting missionary work. In this qualitative study, the authors aim to explore how the missionary work, i.e., “Da’wah”, by some American Muslim missionaries influenced the conversion to Islam of those who were in contact with them. The authors argue that, unlike other Abrahamic proselytizing faiths such as Christianity or the Bahai faith, American Muslim proselytizing was not solely based on direct teaching of the tenets of the religion but also one that demonstrated faith by deeds or actions, which then made Islam attractive and influenced conversion of non-Muslims. These findings come from in-depth fieldwork that included interviews with forty-nine Muslim converts across the United States between June 2014 and May 2015.
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Lawson, V., and T. Klak. "An Argument for Critical and Comparative Research on the Urban Economic Geography of the Americas." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 25, no. 8 (1993): 1071–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a251071.

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The authors identify problems associated with the treatment of Latin American topics in the Anglo-American social science literature, particularly in geography. Latin American research has been peripheralized and the flow of concepts and learning between Latin and Anglo America has been almost entirely from North to South. To explain why research by Latin Americans, and by Latin Americanists, has had relatively limited influence on recent geographic debates over theory and method, the authors employ contemporary discourse analysis. This method assists us in (1) deciphering how development geography presents Latin America, (2) in posing questions about the character and origins of the concepts that shape writing and, indeed, thinking, and (3) in identifying the perspective biases that must be confronted for interregional dialogue to occur. This critical commentary on Latin and Anglo-American research is highly relevant to reconstructed regional geography. It, too, is confronting issues such as the role of theory in contextually grounded research, and how to operationalize research that spans several geographical scales of analysis.
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Altavilla, Jennifer. "Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads." Phi Delta Kappan 102, no. 1 (2020): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0031721720956883.

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Jennifer Altavilla recommends the book The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants are Changing American Life by Tomás Jiménez. Bruce Baker recommends The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein.
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No authorship indicated. "American Psychologist: Instructions to authors." American Psychologist 57, no. 11 (2002): 996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0003-066x.57.11.996.

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No authorship indicated. "American Psychologist: Instructions to authors." American Psychologist 58, no. 1 (2003): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0003-066x.58.1.86.

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No authorship indicated. "American Psychologist: Instructions to authors." American Psychologist 58, no. 2 (2003): 158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0003-066x.58.2.158.

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No authorship indicated. "American psychologist: Instructions to authors." American Psychologist 58, no. 3 (2003): 259. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0003-066x.58.3.259.

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No authorship indicated. "American Psychologist: Instructions to authors." American Psychologist 58, no. 4 (2003): 326. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0003-066x.58.4.326.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "American Authors"

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Ronnow, Gretchen Lyn. "John Milton Oskison: Native American modernist." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186243.

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The works of John Milton Oskison, Cherokee writer, originally published in popular magazines, have been out of print since the 1920s. Oskison's stories have often been dismissed as sentimental and lacking a Native American focus; a more diligent reading, however, shows subtle and complex Native American motifs and concerns. John Oskison was born in Indian Territory in 1874, attended Willie Halsell College, Stanford and Harvard Universities, and then began to write for major New York magazines. It was not necessarily popular nor politically advantageous at that time to be known as Indian, especially if one wished to influence public opinion as a journalist. Oskison's Native American point of view and sympathy are strongly coded in the text, embedded in narrative displacements and rhetorical silences. His are "writerly" texts; at the most superficial level readers may see only populist and assimilationist "messages," but the narrative complexities belie such easy readings. Oskison grappled with the issues of being a highly educated mixed-blood trying to defend a tribal heritage while speaking in the most public arenas. This dissertation is a critical examination of the way this struggle manifests itself in his literary production.
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Homestead, Melissa J. "American women authors and literary property, 1822-1869 /." Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400550012.

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Kaufman, Anne Lee. "Shaping infinity American and Canadian women write a North American west /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/173.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2003.<br>Thesis research directed by: English Language and Literature. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Sowinska, Suzanne. "American women writers and the radical agenda 1925-1940 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9328.

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Vazquez, Garcia Veronica 1963 Carleton University Dissertation Sociology. "Gender differences in contemporary Latin American narrative; a comparative study of male authors and female authors." Ottawa.:, 1989.

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Krasner, Sarah. "Adapting Skazki: How American Authors Reinvent Russian Fairy Tales." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1055.

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Adaptations of works have the potential to bring their subject matter to a new audience. This thesis explores the adaptation of Russian fairy tales into novels by authors Orson Scott Card and Joy Preble by looking at how they present Russian fairy tales, folkloric figures, and fairy tale structure to an American audience.
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Loman, Lilia. "Suicide-authors : a deconstructive study." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30977/.

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The purpose of this thesis is to problematize the relationship between suicide and the author. On the basis of a deconstructive approach, it will study the effect of the self-inflicted death of the writer, namely the emergence of a dual figure, the "suicide-author". To deconstruct the suicide-author, this thesis will combine theoretical issues with examples taken from authors who killed themselves, including texts written by the suicides and by their survivors. Such texts will be referred to as "memorial texts" and will constitute a key element in the deconstruction of the figure of the author, namely his/her "posthumous persona". The thesis is divided into two parts. Part I, comprising the first three chapters, will propose an anti-teleological theorizing of suicide, followed by a study of the role of memorial texts in the deconstruction of the figure of the suicide author and a problematizing of Roland Barthes's concept of the "death of the author" in the context of the multiplicity of deaths of the suicide-author. In Chapter Two, the study of memorial texts will be developed in conjunction with analysis of selected examples, such as Yukio Mishima, Mario de Sa-Carneiro, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergei Esenin, Raymond Roussel, Walter Benjamin, Anne Sexton, and Virginia Woolf. Also divided into three chapters, Part II is dedicated to an extended analysis of the thesis' case study, namely Sylvia Plath. Rather than focusing on Plath's suicide as an individual unique case, the second part aims at extending and complementing the discussion of the issues previously proposed. Of particular interest is the magnifying of such issues offered by the mythical aura of the Plath case. Chapter Four deals with the "voice of the other", the deconstruction of Plath's image by the living, including both those who had known her in person and the so called "anonymous witnesses" to her suicide, namely critics, journalists, et al. Chapter Five focuses on the "voice of the deceased", as emanating from Plath's writings. Finally, Chapter Six analyses the Plath-Hughes dialogue, with attention to Hughes's particular role in the deconstruction of her posthumous persona.
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Lawson, Angelica Marie. "Resistance and Resilience in the Work of Four Native American Authors." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193773.

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AbstractIn his introduction to Tribal Secrets (1995) Osage scholar Robert Warrior acknowledges the "resiliency and resistant spirit of Native America" as evident in the literature of the Native American Renaissance (xvi). Though he does not elaborate on this statement there is an implied balance in his pairing that is compelling. Resistance literature is an established category of writing that is political in its very nature. Resilience literature as a concept in literary criticism does not yet exist, but the construct of resilience as theorized in psychological research "extends from the 1800's to the present" and focuses on how individuals and communities have adapted, survived, and even thrived despite adversity (Tusaie and Dyer 2004: 3).A theory of resistance looks at how writers have resisted the false or one-sided histories and ideologies imposed upon Native Americans. Resistance literature seeks to critique and interrogate those ideologies. A theory of resilience identifies the ways Native American writers have adopted and adapted concepts from their own tribal cultures, and continued those concepts in their literature despite attempts to erase that culture. This, in a sense, is also resistance because it resists the attempts by the oppressors to erase or eradicate those tribal cultures; however, a theory of resilience offers a more nuanced way of looking at precisely which concepts have been continued in the literature and how.Resilience theory offers a more specific form of literary criticism beyond the all encompassing umbrella of "resistance," to show how key concepts from Native American oral tradition have continued into the present via Native American literature. Therefore, for the purposes of this study, "resistance" might be thought of as anti-colonial and "resilience" as pro-cultural.The four authors to be studied here include, Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, and Ofelia Zepeda.
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Fajardo, Margaret A. "Comparing war stories : literature by Vietnamese Americans, U.S.-Guatemalans, and Filipino Americans /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3277200.

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Moldenhauer, Martin A. Fortune Ron. "Teaching concepts of textuality through engagement with authors' manuscripts." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9803729.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1997.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed June 5, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Ronald Fortune (chair), Rodger Tarr, Ray Lewis White, Douglas Hesse. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-199) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Books on the topic "American Authors"

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Ishizuka, Kathy. Asian-American authors. Enslow Publishers, 2000.

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Hill, Christine M. Ten Hispanic American authors. Enslow Publishers, 2002.

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Leonard, Unger, and Litz A. Walton, eds. American writers: Selected authors. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.

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Inc, Merriam-Webster, ed. Webster's dictionary of American authors. Smithmark, 1996.

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Haas, Irvin. Historic homes of American authors. Preservation Press, 1991.

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Binaghi, Patricio. American: Authors, interpreters and composers. Paripé books, 2017.

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Moore, Alex W. Concord authors. Anaxagoras Publications, 1989.

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Gilbreth, Donna V. New Hampshire authors. 4th ed. New Hampshire State Library, 1991.

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Gilbreth, Donna V. New Hampshire authors. 5th ed. New Hampshire State Library, 1995.

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Seattle Public Library. Washington Center for the Book. Washington authors 2001. Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library, 2002.

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Book chapters on the topic "American Authors"

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Barnes, James J. "American Lobbyists in the Early 1850s." In Authors, Publishers and Politicians. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032635651-9.

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Barnes, James J. "Further Efforts to Influence the American Congress, 1842–51." In Authors, Publishers and Politicians. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032635651-4.

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Barnes, James J. "The Depression of 1837–43 and its Implications for the American Book Trade." In Authors, Publishers and Politicians. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032635651-1.

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Torgler, Benno, and Marco Piatti. "Demographic Characteristics of AER Authors." In A Century of American Economic Review. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137333056_4.

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Massimi, Marina. "Psychological Knowledge in Autobiographical Works and Essays by Brazilian Authors." In Latin American Voices. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60645-9_8.

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Okubo, Takaki. "Earl Miner The Japanese Tradition in British and American Literature (1958)." In Masterpieces on Japan by Foreign Authors. Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9853-9_33.

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"The authors." In American Space/American Place. Edinburgh University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474400589-002.

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"About the Authors." In African & American. New York University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814760581.003.0012.

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"About the Authors." In Muslim American Youth. New York University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814708859.003.0025.

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"About the Authors." In Inter-American Relations. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781685858599-003.

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Conference papers on the topic "American Authors"

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"Index of authors." In 1992 American Control Conference. IEEE, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/acc.1992.4792780.

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"Index of authors." In 1991 American Control Conference. IEEE, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/acc.1991.4791995.

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"Authors index." In 2016 North American Power Symposium (NAPS). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/naps.2016.7748009.

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"Index of authors." In Proceedings of American Control Conference. IEEE, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/acc.2001.946395.

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"Authors index." In 2013 Pan American Health Care Exchanges (PAHCE). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pahce.2013.6568201.

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"Authors index." In 2014 Pan American Health Care Exchanges (PAHCE). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pahce.2014.6849606.

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"Authors Index." In 2010 11th Latin American Test Workshop - LATW. IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/latw.2010.5550357.

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"Authors index." In 2012 Pan American Health Care Exchanges (PAHCE 2012). IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pahce.2012.6233463.

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"Authors index." In 2011 Pan American Health Care Exchanges (PAHCE 2011). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pahce.2011.5871951.

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"Index of authors." In 2013 Latin American Computing Conference (CLEI). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/clei.2013.6670678.

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Reports on the topic "American Authors"

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Ureta, Manuelita, Alejandra Cox Edwards, and Suzanne Duryea. Women in the Latin American Labor Market: The Remarkable 1990's. Inter-American Development Bank, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011337.

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In this paper, the authors examine levels and trends of labor market outcomes for women in the 1990's using household survey data for 18 Latin American countries covering several years per country. The outcomes analyzed include labor force participation rates, the distribution of employment of women across sectors of the economy (formal versus informal), and earnings. Next, the authors examine the role of schooling in explaining the increase in female labor force participation in LAC countries. All of these findings suggest a fair degree of change in the role of women within households and in the labor market. The authors conclude that the macro economic picture of stagnation for LAC in the 1990s masks non-trivial developments in the division of labor and time allocation by gender.
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Heckman, James J., and Carmen Pagés. The Cost of Job Security Regulation: Evidence from Latin American Labor Markets. Inter-American Development Bank, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0010722.

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This paper documents the high level of job security protection in Latin American labor markets and analyzes its impacts on employment. The authors show that job security policies have a substantial impact on the level and the distribution of employment in Latin America. These policies reduce employment and promote inequality. The institutional organization of the labor market affects both employment and inequality.
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Kelley, Allyson, Sadie Posey, Ashley Weigum, Kelley Milligan, and Linda Donahue. Uncovering the Roots: Substance abuse prevention in American Indian populations. Allyson Kelley & Associates PLLC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.62689/u50t5i.

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This resource describes what substance use disorder (SUD) is, how it impacts individuals and families, and what can be done to prevent SUD in current and future generations. The authors use the tree as a metaphor to uncover the hidden but significant impacts of trauma throughout the life course on well-being. Resources included at the end of this publication may help address unresolved trauma and promote recovery.
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Talvi, Ernesto, Alejandro Grisanti, and Ernesto H. Stein. Institutional Arrangements and Fiscal Performance: The Latin American Experience. Inter-American Development Bank, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011549.

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This paper considers whether institutional factors, in this instance electoral systems and procedures, affect Latin American countries' fiscal performance as measured by the size of the public sector, fiscal deficits, the size of the public debt, and the degree of procyclality of fiscal policy. The authors find that electoral systems characterized by large district magnitude and high political fragmentation have larger governments, larger deficits, and more procyclical fiscal policies. Transparent and hierarchical budget procedures, on the other hand, lead to lower deficits and levels of debt.
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Palau-Sampio, D., and A. Cuartero-Naranjo. Spanish and Latin American narrative journalism: a comparative of issues, influences, publications and points of view of a new generation of authors. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4185/rlcs-2018-1291en.

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Micco, Alejandro, and Natalia Pérez. Determinants of Maritime Transport Costs. Inter-American Development Bank, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011324.

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Recent literature has emphasized the importance of transport costs and infrastructure in explaining trade, access to markets, and increases in per capita income. For most Latin American countries, transport costs are a greater barrier to U.S. markets than import tariffs. The authors investigate the determinants of shipping costs to the U.S. with a large database of more than 300,000 observations per year on shipments of products at the six-digit HS level from different ports around the world. In addition, the authors find that efficiency of ports is an important determinant of shipping costs. Inefficient ports also increase handling costs, which are one of the components of shipping costs. The authors try to explain variations in port efficiency and find that they are linked to excessive regulation, the prevalence of organized crime, and the general condition of the country's infrastructure. Finally, the authors present a number of success stories in Latin America to show that private involvement in port management leads to efficiency and lower costs whenever it is accompanied by labor reform, and when monopoly power is reduced through either regulation or competition.
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Jimenez Mori, Raul Alberto, and Jorge Enrique Mercado Díaz. Energy Intensity: A Decomposition and Counterfactual Exercise for Latin American Countries. Inter-American Development Bank, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011485.

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This paper investigates trends in energy intensity in Latin American countries over the last 40 years. It applies the Fisher Ideal Index to decompose the energy intensity into the relative contributions of energy efficiency and the activity mix, and then analyzes the determinants of these energy indexes through panel data regression techniques. Finally, the paper compares the performance of Latin American countries to that of a similar set of countries chosen through the synthetic control method. The authors find that the energy intensity in Latin American countries has decreased about 20 percent, closing the gap with respect to its synthetic counterfactual. In both Latin American countries and its synthetic control, efficiency improvements drive these changes, while the activity mix component does not represent a clear source of change. The regression analysis shows that per capita income, petroleum prices, fuel-energy mix, and GDP growth are main determinants of energy intensity and efficiency, while there are no clear correlations with the activity component.
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Bhalla, Kavi, and Esteban Diez-Roux. Cost of Traffic Injuries in Latin America. Inter-American Development Bank, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006934.

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This presentation was given by Esteban Diez-Roux and Kavi Bahlla at the Ibero-American Road Safety Conference (CISEV) which took place in Bogota, Colombia in June, 2012. This presentation describes how the high rate of traffic accidents in Latin America places a burden on economies in the region. The authors present the methods and results of a study which assigns a monetary cost to these deaths and injuries as a percent of GDP. The presentation ends with conclusions and implications.
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Schiefelbein, Ernesto, Paulina Schiefelbein, and Laurence Wolff. Cost-Effectiveness of Education Policies in Latin America: A Survey of Expert Opinion. Inter-American Development Bank, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008789.

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This paper provides an alternative approach to measuring the cost-effectiveness of educational interventions. The authors devised a questionnaire and gave it to ten international experts, mainly located in universities and international agencies, all of whom were well acquainted with educational research and with practical attempts at educational reform in the region; as well as to about 30 Latin American planner/practitioners, most of them working in the planning office of their ministry of education. Each respondent was asked to estimate the impact of 40 possible primary school interventions on learning as well as the probability of successful implementation. Using their own estimates of the incremental unit costs of these interventions, the authors created an innovative index ranking the cost-effectiveness of each of the 40 interventions.
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Moran, Kevin, Dalibor Stevanovic, and Adam Abdel Kader Touré. Pessimism could plunge us into a recession. CIRANO, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.54932/zbcm3806.

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For over a year, various studies have been reporting that Canadian businesses and consumers are fairly pessimistic about the economy. Evaluating the extent to which this wave of pessimism could cause an economic slowdown presents a methodological challenge, one the authors tackled in a recent CIRANO study. Drawing upon Vector Autoregression (VAR) methodology as well as Canadian and American historical data, the authors suggest that correlations between confidence and economic activity do indeed include a causal component. As a result, the recent declines observed in confidence indices could lead to an economic slowdown.
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