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Frontline governance: a street-level bureaucracy perspective on brucellosis control in Western Iran. [PDF]

Trop Med Health
Behzadifar M, Shahabi S, Azari S, Bakhtiari A, Martini M, Behzadifar M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Relative Efficiency of Health Provision: a DEA Approach with Non-discretionary Inputs [PDF]

We estimate a semi-parametric model of health production process using a two-stage approach for OECD countries. By regressing data envelopment analysis output efficiency scores on non-discretionary variables, both using Tobit analysis and a single and ...
António Afonso, Miguel St. Aubyn
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“They say we're a rights‐respecting school but nobody knows what that really means”: Children's rights implementation in a Scottish secondary school

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Education has been an enduring feature of international human rights law since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and is the only human right that is compulsory for children. Appearing in all major human rights treaties, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, education is multidimensional and a multiplier of ...
Amy Hanna
wiley   +1 more source

Discretionary Child Protective Services Reporting for Infants With Prenatal Opioid Exposure. [PDF]

Pediatrics
Khazanchi R, Schiff DM, Egan E, Preer G, Shafer PR, Austad K, Barber CM, Elansary M, Selcer R, Green KA, Okopie T, Modest AM, Wachman EM, Hsu HE.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Joint estimates of automatic and discretionary fiscal policy for the OECD [PDF]

Official calculations of automatic stabilizers are seriously flawed since they rest on the assumption that the only element of social spending that reacts automatically to the cycle is unemployment compensation.
Jacques Melitz, Julia Darby
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Racial gaps without racism: How English universities frame inequality in access and participation plans

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Racial inequalities are pervasive in higher education despite concerted efforts to redress issues of access, progression and continuation. Little attention has been paid to how universities themselves construct race within their policy texts.
Benjamin Hart, Mirna Šumatić
wiley   +1 more source

Risk Governance of Payment Exceptions Under China's DRG/DIP Reform: A Structured Policy-Text Analysis of Special Case Negotiation Rules. [PDF]

Risk Manag Healthc Policy
Sun K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unequal Impact of Conservatism on Accrual Measures and Drivers: Implications for the Specification of Accrual Models [PDF]

This study makes two main contributions to the literature. Firstly, it tests empirically the relative timeliness of accrual measures and earnings components used as explanatory variables in accrual models (“accrual drivers”) regarding the impact of ...
Peter F. Pope, José António Moreira
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‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
wiley   +1 more source

A cultural explanation for parole decisions in the United States. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Telidevara AK, Boyd RL, Park B.
europepmc   +1 more source