Religious Exemptions to Title IX

Religious exemptions to childhood immunization statutes: reaching for a more optimal balance between religious freedom and public health.

Changes to midwives exemptions.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) exists to safeguard the health and well being of the public. We do this by maintaining a register of nurses and midwives and by setting standards for education and practice. This includes setting standards for administration, dispensing and storage of medicines. Midwives may, in the course of their professional practice, supply and administer on their own...

Conflicts between religious or spiritual beliefs and pediatric care: informed refusal, exemptions, and public funding.

Although respect for parents' decision-making authority is an important principle, pediatricians should report suspected cases of medical neglect, and the state should, at times, intervene to require medical treatment of children. Some parents' reasons for refusing medical treatment are based on their religious or spiritual beliefs. In cases in which treatment is likely to prevent death or seri...

On religious and secular exemptions: A case study of childhood vaccination waivers

This paper analyses exemptions to general law through the prism of vaccine waivers in the United States. All US states legally require the vaccination of children prior to school or daycare entry; however, this obligation is accompanied with a system of medical, religious, and/or philosophical exemptions. Nonmedical exemptions became subject of discussion after the 2015 Disneyland measles outbr...

Using Elasticities to Derive Optimal Bankruptcy Exemptions

This paper characterizes the optimal bankruptcy exemption for risk averse borrowers who use unsecured contracts but have the possibility of defaulting. It provides a novel general formula — which holds in a wide variety of environments — for the optimal exemption as a function of a few observable sufficient statistics. Knowledge of borrowers’ leverage, the sensitivity of the interest rate sched...