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The effects of a universal income transfer on food insecurity within households

open access: yesAgricultural and Resource Economics Review
Using the public-use files of the Canadian Community Health Survey and a difference-in-differences methodology, we estimate the impact of a universal income transfer (the Universal Child Care Benefit) on food insecurity, separately for adults and ...
Prianka Maria Sarker   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Report From Focus Groups With Mainers About the Dirigo Health Plan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Measures the public's views and understanding of the Dirigo Health Reform Act, which was established to provide affordable health care for every Maine citizen and a new process for containing costs and improving healthcare ...
Eugene LeCouteur, Michael Perry
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Managing the Threat of Subsidized Predators for a Threatened Shorebird

open access: yesAnimal Conservation, EarlyView.
Subsidized predators—native predators that have become more common due to human activities—challenge the persistence of many at‐risk prey species and require creative solutions beyond lethal predator control. In an 8‐year study, we placed small wire cages over western snowy plover nests that allow passage of plovers, but not their predators, and ...
R. R. Swaisgood   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emergence of nodal Bogoliubov quasiparticles across the transition from the pseudogap metal to the d-wave superconductor

open access: yesnpj Quantum Materials
We model the pseudogap state of the hole- and electron-doped cuprates as a metal with hole and/or electron pocket Fermi surfaces. In the absence of long-range antiferromagnetism, such Fermi surfaces violate the Luttinger requirement of enclosing the same
Maine Christos, Subir Sachdev
doaj   +1 more source

Thousands of Guns, No Background Check Required: An Analysis of The Market for Unlicensed Gun Sales in Maine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The state of Maine has a strong tradition of gun ownership. And Maine's gun owners know that responsible ownership includes keeping guns out of the wrong hands. That's why 93% of Americans—and the majority of Mainers, regardless of political party—agree:

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How the sales of oral nicotine pouches correlate with prices and respond to taxes on cigarettes and e‐cigarettes

open access: yesAddiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Oral nicotine pouches (ONPs) have seen a dramatic rise in sales since their introduction to the US market in 2016. We aimed to define the relationship between ONP prices and sales (e.g. price elasticity of demand) and determine how taxes on cigarettes and e‐cigarettes (ECs) impact ONP sales.
Yanyun He   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fixing a Broken System: Transforming Maine's Child Welfare System [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Describes how Maine reduced congregate care with help from Casey's "Family to Family" model of team decision making and keeping children in the neighborhood or with extended family and the Casey Strategic Consulting Group of experts working with ...

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Racial bias in criminal sentencing: Historical evidence from Chinese railway workers in British Columbia

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract Do discriminatory attitudes held in the public influence public institutions? We study this question within the context of the criminal justice system of historical British Columbia (BC). During the late 1870s and early 1880s, an influx of Chinese immigrant workers employed in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was the catalyst
Kris Inwood, Ian Keay, Blair Long
wiley   +1 more source

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