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Regional Heterogeneity and China’s International Trade: Sufficient Lumpiness or Not?

Cash or Prepay

Growing cashless services in the Sydney metropolitan region is motivated by the clear supply-side benefits associated with the prepayment of public transport fares. This paper examines the effect on prepay following the ‘MyZone’ fare and ticket reform in NSW introduced in April 2010. ‘MyZone’, introduced two new discounted and standardised prepay products, including a new, multi-modal ticket. W...

Cash, Food, or Vouchers?

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Ensuring automatic detection of ventricular fibrillation.

T he sensitivity and specificity of ventricular fibrillation (VF) detection by automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) have received relatively little attention by clinical investigators compared with other aspects of defibrillator use. The paucity of reports on ventricular fibrillation detection is not related to its lack of importance but rather reflects how difficult it is t...

Cash or Condition? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment

This paper assesses the role of conditionality in cash transfer programs using a unique experiment targeted at adolescent girls in Malawi. The program featured two distinct interventions: unconditional transfers (UCT arm) and transfers conditional on school attendance (CCT arm). While there was a modest decline in the dropout rate in the UCT arm in comparison to the control group, it was only 4...