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Characteristics, Motivators, and Enablers of Educators Who Earn Many Micro‐Credentials

Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the characteristics, motivators, and enablers of US educators, who earned more than ten micro‐credentials. Although research exists on attitudes and motivators associated with educators newly engaging with micro‐credentials, it lacks insights into learners earning many micro‐credentials.
Marilys Galindo, Rita Fennelly‐Atkinson   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nowcasting World Trade With Machine Learning: A Three‐Step Approach

Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We nowcast world trade using machine learning, distinguishing between tree‐based methods (random forest and gradient boosting) and their linear‐regression‐based counterparts (macroeconomic random forest and gradient boosting—linear). While much less used in the literature, the latter are found to outperform not only the tree‐based techniques ...
Menzie Chinn, Baptiste Meunier, Sebastian Stumpner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The laws, regulations, and industry practices that protect consumers who use electronic payment systems: ACH E-checks & prepaid cards [PDF]

This is the second in a series of three papers that examines the protections available to users of various electronic payment vehicles who fall victim to fraud, discover an error on their statement, or have a dispute with a merchant after making a ...
Mark Furletti, Stephen Smith
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Promoting Safe Opioid Disposal: Experimental Evidence on Behavioral Messaging With Financial Incentives

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some patients prescribed opioid pills fail to properly dispose of their unused pills, posing a risk for others. We report results from a pre‐registered field experiment testing whether behaviorally informed reminder cards increase participation in a financial incentive program for returning unused opioid pills among U.S. Veterans.
Mattie Toma, Russell Burnett, Pompa Debroy, Eugen Dimant, Jean Liu, Elana Safran, Uzaib Saya, Bill Schultz   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design of a secure unified e-payment system in Nigeria: A case study [PDF]

, 2010
The automatic teller machine (ATM) is the most widely used e-Payment instrument in Nigeria. It is responsible for about 89% (in volume) of all e-Payment instruments since 2006 to 2008. Some customers have at least two ATM cards depending on the number of
Ayo, C. K., Ukpere, W. I.
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From Parallel Provision to Health System Integration: Exploring the Trajectory and Contextual Drivers of the Healthcare Response for Refugees in Six Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rising numbers of refugees, prolonged displacement and reduced funding have led to challenges in terms of how to address their healthcare needs, with different approaches taken, ranging from parallel mechanisms to arrangements that are integrated (to different extents) within the national health system. Increasingly, global frameworks call for
Maria Paola Bertone, Natasha Palmer, Amina Olabi, Ibrahim Bou‐Orm, Hussam Rekani, Hassan Ould Moctar, Ricardo Chuquimia, Chitalu Miriam Chama‐Chiliba, Ben Ngoye, Zahid Ali Memon, Marcia Vera‐Espinoza, Karin Diaconu, Alastair Ager, Sophie Witter   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer testing informs policy: overdraft regulation as a case study [PDF]

In November 2009, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System issued regulations that protect consumers from being charged certain fees when, under a discretionary overdraft service, financial institutions pay transactions from a deposit account
Philip Keitel
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Developing a Typology of Korean Women Leaders' Resistance to Their Token Status in the Workplace

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite remarkable economic development in South Korea (Korea), there are only a few women leaders, and they face challenges in the gendered workplace where organizational constraints and traditional values coexist. In a reanalysis of narratives of Korean women leaders (KWLs), using an ideal‐type analysis as a novel qualitative research method,
Yonjoo Cho, Jiwon Park, Sumi Lee, Jieun You, Sokyum Yoon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer choice and merchant acceptance of payment media [PDF]

We study the ability of banks and merchants to influence the consumer's payment instrument choice. Consumers participate in payment card networks to insure themselves against three types of shocks -- income, theft, and their merchant match.
Sujit Chakravorti, Wilko Bolt
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Financial Literacy, Financial Development and Economic Growth

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While significant progress has been made in exploring the importance of financial literacy, its impact on economic growth and financial development from a macroeconomic point of view remains thinly understood. This paper provides fresh evidence on the relationship between financial literacy, financial development and economic growth.
Spyridon Boikos, Theodore Panagiotidis, Georgios Voucharas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source