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Ethics and equity in access to disease‐modifying therapies and newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy: A scoping review

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
Outcomes of children with cerebral palsy receiving long‐term respiratory support. Aim To review barriers to ethical and equitable access to disease‐modifying therapies (DMTs) and newborn screening (NBS) for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Method We searched PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCOhost, the Cochrane Library, Google Scholar, and Primo for ...
Serini Murugasen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Big fish in a bigger pond: positional envy in the workplace

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract In an agency model with hidden information, we examine how skill heterogeneity can affect the design of optimal contracts and the distribution of rents across workers. We first consider a standard model with two worker types, and show that under certain conditions, the information rent accruing to high‐ability workers can be non‐monotonic ...
Rosaria Distefano, Francesco Reito
wiley   +1 more source

Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late‐medieval Low Countries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
wiley   +1 more source

Banks and the economy: Evidence from the Irish bank strike of 1966

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper studies the macroeconomic impact of the Irish bank strike of 1966, which led to the closure of the major commercial banks for 3 months. We collect a variety of new evidence, such as high‐frequency macro data, economic forecasts, micro data and narrative sources.
Emma Horgan, Seán Kenny, Jason Lennard
wiley   +1 more source

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