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Towards appropriate guidance for the ethical challenges of environmentally sustainable prescribing

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
The environmental impact of medicines poses a significant threat to planetary and public health, making it essential to integrate environmental sustainability into prescribing practices. While the most effective measures to reduce environmental impact, such as reducing unnecessary prescriptions and medication waste, are consistent with appropriate ...
Joost D. Piët, Steven R. Kraaijeveld, Erik M. Donker, Milan C. Richir, Caroline T. A. Moermond, Amy Booth, SanYuMay Tun, Thijs H. Oude Munnink, Patricia M. L. A. van den Bemt, Lorena Dima, Ben J. A. Janssen, Mathilde Jalving, Tomás Mauro van Emden, Fabrizio de Ponti, Robert Likic, João Costa, Marc Labriffe, Charlotte L. Bekker, Carlotta Lunghi, Elisabetta Poluzzi, Michiel A. van Agtmael, Yolande Voskes, Jelle Tichelaar   +22 more
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Time discounting and wealth inequality [PDF]

, 2018
We use standard experimental methods to elicit how much people discount the future for a large sample of middle-aged individuals in Denmark and link it to information about their real-life wealth over a 15-year period obtained from administrative ...
Epper, Thomas, Leth-Petersen, Søren, Fehr-Duda, Helga; https://orcid.org/, Dreyer Lassen, David, Fehr, Ernst; https://orcid.org/, Thustrup Kreiner, Claus, Nytoft Rasmussen, Gregers   +6 more
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Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
wiley   +1 more source

Maslahah Mursalah: A Substantial Effort to Overcome Income and Wealth Inequality in Indonesia

Shirkah
Income and wealth inequality in Indonesia persists despite efforts by central and local governments to address it. maslahah mursalah provides a strong theoretical foundation for creating policies that are both religious and highly beneficial. This study
Tholkhatul Khoir, Eman Sulaiman
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding the trends in income, consumption and wealth inequality and how important are life-cycle effects? [PDF]

Rising inequality in income, wealth and consumption has received a good deal of public attention in the past years. At the same time, also macroeconomists are more and more interested in inequality as they have expanded their models to incorporate ...
Sommer, Mathias
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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall, Yusraa Maryam, Sumeya Loonat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses [PDF]

This paper assembles new data and new methods for studying wealth inequality trends in industrializing America. Records of household heads from the census matched with real and personal property tax records for Massachusetts reveal that the Theil entropy
Carolyn M. Moehling, Richard H. Steckel
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Growth mindset is positively associated with mathematics attainment in Scotland—But socioeconomic status plays a greater role

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is currently a gap in knowledge around pupils' growth mindset (GM) and attainment in Scotland, particularly in relation to Socioeconomic Status (SES). This study offers insights on the relevance of growth mindset in Scotland for attainment in mathematics by drawing on large‐scale data from the OECD's Programme for International Student ...
Catherine Reid, Ellen Boeren
wiley   +1 more source

Wealth Inequality and the Price of Anarchy

CoRR, 2018
Price of anarchy quantifies the degradation of social welfare in games due to the lack of a centralized authority that can enforce the optimal outcome. At its antipodes, mechanism design studies how to ameliorate these effects by incentivizing socially desirable behavior and implementing the optimal state as equilibrium. In practice, the responsiveness
Gemici, Kurtuluş, Koutsoupias, Elias, Monnot, Barnabé, Papadimitriou, Christos H., Piliouras, Georgios   +4 more
openaire   +5 more sources

The household wealth distribution in Spain: The role of housing and financial wealth. [PDF]

We analyse the distribution of household wealth in Spain using the first wave of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances, conducted by the Bank of Spain in 2002.
Francisco Azpitarte
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