Many multilevel, contextually relevant, evidenced-based health promotion programs are not disseminated widely. The purpose of this study is to describe the adaptation of a published effective tobacco-use cessation intervention, which was implemented and evaluated in a broader population of unionized workers partnering with a health and welfare fund health benefits carrier. 68 tobacco users enro...

— We study the role of the exchange rate regime, reserve accumulation, and sterilization policies in the macroeconomics of aid surges. Absent sterilization, a peg allows for almost full aid absorption—an increase in the current account deficit net of aid—delivering the same effects as those of a flexible regime but with a necessary increase in inflation. Regardless of the regime, policies that ...

We extend the set of regulatory instruments for banks’ liquidity provision by adding a policy instrument for controlling the fraction of perfectly-liquid accounts. We demonstrate how this instrument induces self-selection on behalf of depositors who are differentiated according to their probability of facing a liquidity shock. This selfselection leads to a market segmentation, which can break t...

Funding: we thank the Parker Hughes Fund and National Institutes of Health for grants for supporting this study. DN is supported by a research grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, NO 817/1-1), NK is supported by a fellowship from the Tower Cancer Research Foundation. HPK holds the Mark Goodson Chair in Oncology Research at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and is a member of the Jonss...

Last year, a process evaluation protocol was designed by Government of India (GOI), United Nations Childrens' Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO) consisting of a rapid qualitative evaluation by independent observers throughout the country. The process evaluation was carried out on the first day of the PPI to provide information for improving the effectiveness of the day 2 activiti...

BACKGROUND Episodic volunteers are a critical resource for public health non-profit activities but are poorly understood. A systematic review was conducted to describe the empirical evidence about episodic volunteering (EV) in the public health sector and more broadly. Study location, focus and temporal trends of EV research were also examined. METHODS Twelve key bibliographic databases (1990...

Accompanied by the monetisation of housing allocation, Housing Provident Fund (HPF) has become an important part China’s security system. As 2020, HPF been implemented for almost 30 years, but limited effort made to examine its performance, especially from a spatial (regional) perspective. Taking 287 Chinese cities as sample and using “access–process–outcome” framework, this study explores inte...

The success of village fund management in achieving community welfare requires various serious efforts, one which is finding the appropriate paradigm for development. Village funds as a resource are expected to create empowered and independent villages. government effort achieve equal development poverty alleviation border villages Belu District, East Nusa Tenggara Province. study population co...

Zakat is an act of worship contained in the pillars Islam. In Islam, tithing third place after prayer. The management zakat funds aims to increase usability and efficiency which has impact on realization justice, community welfare poverty alleviation vicinity. Amil Fund Allocation Bandar Lampung City increased from 2018-2020. managing allocation amil funds, greater collection, rights funds. res...

This paper studies how and how much the mutual fund industry increases its fees by differentiating products over the state of nature. To avoid head-to-head competition, mutual fund managers hold different portfolios which yield distinct returns and become star funds alternatively in different market situations. This enables mutual funds to obtain stochastic monopoly power and on average charge ...