Disclosure: Stephen C Bain is a member of the Cellnovo Medical Advisory Board. This article is a short opinion piece and has not been submitted to external peer reviewers, but the questions were reviewed by the Editorial Board before publication. Acknowledgements: Editorial assistance was provided by Deborah Glover MBE, BSc, RN and Katrina Mountfort, PhD, Touch Medical Media. This was funded by...

Survey data from 36,771 European grandparents were analyzed with respect to childcare assistance that interviewees provided their birth children versus stepchildren. Interviewees current partners far more such adult who the progeny of both than those stepchildren either one's self or partner, but husband and wife helped wife's prior unions they husband's children, supporting interpretation step...

The purpose of this paper is not to assess the role or performance international financial institutions in Republic Moldova, but rather focus on a somehow insufficiently investigated topic and namely: quality evaluation official development assistance provided by donors. Several factors were considered when determining efficiency assistance: consolidation units within Ministry Finance, update e...

RFID represents a significant improvement over other automated identification technologies (such as bar coding) in that RFID readers do not require line of sight to tags nor do RFID systems require human assistance when functioning properly. These and other attributes make RFID an excellent candidate for convergence with a variety of networking technologies, and recent research has paired RFID ...

at the AFA and EFA for valuable comments. We thank Zach Liscow for excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Direc...