Mary Piorun is Associate Director for Library Systems. In this capacity she manages the Library's technology initiatives and oversees the implementation and management of software/hardware used in the daily operations of the Library. Mary is currently the project manager for the Library's institutional repository initiative. Lisa Palmer is Catalog Librarian at the Lamar Soutter Library, UMass M...

A study of occupational race and sex segregation was performed on time series, census data from 1940 to 2000. Modernization / neoclassic economic theories and institutional / queuing theories were tested in the analyses. Modernization theory suggests that over time, occupational segregation will decrease, while institutional/queue theory suggests segregation will not decline due to rigidities a...

This paper argues that business groups in emerging economies exert dual effects on innovation. While groups encourage innovation by providing institutional infrastructures, groups also discourage innovation by creating entry barriers for small and non-group firms and inhibiting the proliferation of new ideas. Using OLS and panel data estimation techniques, followed by nonparametric analysis and...

Recent studies point to two likely explanations for habitual voting. The first is that voting causes psychological changes that make individuals more likely to view themselves as “voters.” The other asserts that voting eases institutional barriers, making future voting less costly. These mechanisms lead to divergent expectations about when and where we should observe habitual voting that are us...

— This paper analyzes institutional design, organizational capacity, and interplay in markets for ecosystem services. It examines the development of a market-based mechanism to commercialize forest carbon in Mexico through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). This is compared with a State-run carbon forestry program aiming to provide emission rights to voluntary, retail-based, carbon markets....

that in rural Uttar Pradesh (UP), only about one-fourth of women delivered their last child in an institution.a In 2005 the Janani Suraksha Yojana ( JSY) was launched as an intervention to address the barriers to institutional delivery, through the introduction of community-based women volunteers called Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs). Women in rural areas in low performing states ar...

This study reveals the characteristics of urbanisation in China, which has started as a comprehensive socio-economic plan since 2014. It examines the ongoing urbanisation process from the perspectives of history, the size of city, village urbanisation and costs and benefits of the settlement of rural migrants in cities. The study argues that urbanisation in China is characterised by not only ‘s...

BACKGROUND Evidence shows that the three delays, delay in 1) deciding to seek medical care, 2) reaching health facilities and 3) receiving adequate obstetric care, are still contributing to maternal deaths in low-income countries. Ethiopia is a major contributor to the worldwide death toll of mothers with a maternal mortality ratio of 676 per 100,000 live births. The Ethiopian Ministry of Healt...