An important determinant of health system performance is contracting. Providers often respond to financial incentives, despite the ethical underpinnings of medicine, and payers can craft contracts to influence performance. Yet contracting is highly imperfect in both single-payer and multi-payer health systems. Arguably, in a competitive, multi-payer environment, contractual innovation may occur...

The article provides a comparative analysis of the grounds for declaring marriage contracts invalid, taking into account legal positions Supreme Court before martial law and modern risks. It is noted that in doctrine private general family particular, approach to recognizing contract as transaction with complex nature, which regulated both by norms Family Code Ukraine, subsidiarily provisions C...

The current study sought to explore into whether women are obsessed with ‘white’ weddings.  It examined the various possible factors/variables attributed to this assertion. The researchers employed a qualitative case study approach to examine the phenomenon. Thirty single women at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana were sampled using the purposive sampling technique. ...

Productivity, Wages, and Marriage: The Case of Major League Baseball Using a sample of professional baseball players from 1871–2007, this paper aims at analyzing a longstanding empirical observation that married men earn significantly more than their single counterparts holding all else equal (the “marriage premium”). Baseball is a unique case study because it has a long history of statistics c...

Abstract Pandemic border closures separated previously transnational couples, including unmarried partners, revealing under-researched forms of family life. From this point departure, we reexamine Norwegian immigration regulation for partners from the 1980s onwards. Societal norms around coupledom have shifted toward Giddens’s “pure relationship.” Yet, regulations focused on “problematic marria...