Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
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Job quality and employee happiness: evidence from China. [PDF]
Front PsycholYu B, Song Z, Shen Z.
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Private Information, Growth and Asset Prices with Stochastic Disturbances [PDF]
We introduce both idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks in an endogenous growth model with endogenous partial insurance to the idiosyncratic shock. Aggregate uncertainty introduces an additional channel that can play an important role in determining the ...
Marcelo Bianconi
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Forecasting Count Data With Varying Dispersion: A Latent‐Variable Approach
Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Count data, such as product sales and disease case counts, are common in business forecasting and many areas of science. Although the Poisson distribution is the best known model for such data, its use is severely limited by its assumption that the dispersion is a fixed function of the mean, which rarely holds in real‐world scenarios.
Easton Huch +3 more
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The effect of deductibles on healthcare expenditure: new evidence for Switzerland. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv ResFelder S, Meyer S.
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance for Older Workers [PDF]
This paper shows that optimal unemployment insurance contracts are age-dependent. Older workers have only a few years left on the labor market prior to retirement. This short horizon implies a more digressive replacement ratio.
Hairault, Jean-Olivier +3 more
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Oil Futures Prices, Inflation Expectations, and Bond Risk Premiums
Journal of Futures Markets, EarlyView.ABSTRACT By decomposing West Texas Intermediate futures price changes into structural supply and demand shocks, this paper shows that dissecting the oil price significantly improves inflation forecasts. Empirically, demand‐driven shocks predict a negative real bond risk premium but a positive inflation risk premium; these opposing effects result in an ...
Haibo Jiang
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Healthcare utilization and satisfaction: a cross-sectional study among Indian immigrants in Japan. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthMittal S +6 more
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The Role of Price‐Volatility Cojumps in Volatility Forecasting
Journal of Futures Markets, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether simultaneous jumps in prices and volatility improve volatility forecasting. Using up‐to‐date high‐frequency S&P 500 and VIX data, we identify price‐volatility cojumps at the intraday granularity and construct upside, downside, and asymmetric measures.
Kefu Liao
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Facilitators and barriers of public-private partnerships for universal health coverage in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review. [PDF]
Health Policy PlanOtchere G +5 more
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