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Location Choice, Portfolio Choice [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 Households hold under-diversified stock portfolios concentrated in firms headquartered near the city where they reside. Theories for this local-bias puzzle assign a causal role for proximity, be it generating an informational advantage or a familiarity bias. These explanations assume that households locate randomly.
Ioannis Branikas +2 more
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Expanding 'Choice' in School Choice [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Gale-Shapley's deferred acceptance (henceforth DA) mechanism has emerged as a prominent candidate for placing students to public schools. While DA has desirable fairness and incentive properties, it limits the applicants' abilities to communicate their preference intensities, which entails ex ante inefficiency when ties at school preferences are ...
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila +2 more
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Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2021 IMPACT: Understanding the needs and barriers or facilitators to participation in research, especially among minority communities is critical not only for COVID-19 research but also for future clinical and translational research and health disparities ...
Olveen Carrasquillo +12 more
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Who Are Charter School Teachers? Comparing Teacher Characteristics, Job Choices, and Job Preferences
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012 Given the importance of teachers to student learning, it is important to understand how and why charter schools differ in terms of their human capital.
Marisa Ann Cannata, Roberto Penaloza
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Pharmacoepidemiology, 2023 Though it is well documented that antidepressants are associated with an increased risk of falls in older adults at the drug class level, the comparative risk between individual antidepressants for fall injury in older adults with depression is unknown ...
Ashley Tabah +3 more
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2021 Background The ISPOR Special Task Force (STF) on US Value Assessment Frameworks was agnostic about exactly how to implement the quality-adjusted life year (QALY) as a key element in an overall cost-effectiveness evaluation.
Bernarda Zamora +3 more
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Pharmacy deserts and COVID-19 risk at the census tract level in the State of Washington
Vaccine: X, 2022 Community pharmacies are a crucial component of healthcare infrastructure, including for COVID-19 pandemic prevention services like testing and vaccination. Communities that are “pharmacy deserts,” experience healthcare inequities.
Rachel Wittenauer +3 more
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Healthcare choice: Discourses, perceptions, experiences and practices [PDF]
, 2015 Policy discourse shaped by neoliberal ideology, with its emphasis on marketisation and competition, has highlighted the importance of choice in the context of healthcare and health systems globally.
Bauman Z +18 more
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What helps volunteers to continue with their work?
South African Family Practice, 2004 Aim: The aim of the study was to understand what volunteers perceived to be the factors helping them to continue working as volunteers, thereby assisting project leaders to improve the recruitment procedures, as well as quality of service, in the future.
G. Marincowitz, C. Jackson, S. Fehrsen
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Annals of Global Health, 2021 Background: Local estimates of HIV-prevalence provide information that can be used to target interventions and consequently increase the efficiency of resources.
Enrique M. Saldarriaga
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