INTRODUCTION The movement of women across international borders is occurring at greater rates than ever before, yet the relationship between migration and women's health has been under-explored. One reason may be difficulty measuring migration variables including country of birth, length of time in country, immigration status, language ability, and ethnicity. A range of social, environmental, c...

The establishment of the European Common Market has involved the free movement not only of capital and goods, but also of persons and services. The principles of free movement also apply to the health care sector, i.e. they allow for the free incorporation of health care providers and the cross-border delivery of services. Since the 1970s, the European Union (EU) has passed numerous regulations...

INTRODUCTION BIRTE WASSENBERG " Cross-border cooperation can be compared to a patchwork, where pieces of material have been sewn together. The border regions are the seams of Europe and everyone knows that the whole piece is only as strong as its seams. This experience has instilled in me the profound conviction that border regions play a fundamental role as a testing ground and driving force f...

COVID-19 has created a trade crisis in Southern Africa, with dramatic slowdown cross-border trade. The crisis, which exposed weaknesses and deficiencies the facilitation regimes, presents an opportunity for African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to address contribute greater levels of within Africa. This working paper looks at impact border closures response pandemic, its on movement good...

We propose a method of retrospective counterfactual imputation in panel data settings with later-treated and always-treated units, but no never-treated units. use the observed outcomes to impute using matrix completion estimator. novel propensity-score elapsed-time weighting estimator's objective function correct for differences covariate unobserved fixed effects distributions, elapsed time sin...

Background: Cross-border reproductive care (CBRC) refers to the movement of patients to foreign countriesfor fertility treatment. Limited evidence indicates that this phenomenon is associated with a risk of psychologicaldistress, but few studies on the psychological impact of CBRC are currently available. The aim of this studywas to compare the anxiety and depression levels of...