OBJECTIVES A fundamental issue in organ donation after circulatory death is the determination of death. There are limited data regarding the incidence and timing of autoresuscitation after asystole. Prevailing guidelines suggest a 2- to 5-min observation after mechanical asystole before the declaration of death. This study tested the hypothesis that a 2-min observation period after asystole is ...

This paper investigates how material well-being has changed over time for those at the bottom of the distributions of income and consumption. We document the sharp differences between recent trends in measured income and consumption, focusing on families headed by a single mother. Since the early 1990s, income in the bottom decile has fallen by nearly 30 percent, while income has risen by more ...

The mismatch between employed parents’ work schedules and their children’s school schedules creates the structural underpinning for an as-yet-unstudied stressor, namely, parental afterschool stress, or the degree of parents’ concern about their children’s welfare after school. We estimate the relationship between parental afterschool stress and psychological well-being in a sample of 243 employ...