In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments across the world have attempted to protect jobs by paying companies to retain employees (“furloughing”), even when there was no work for them to do. Using a difference-in-differences design on a nationally representative dataset, this study...

High stakes testing regimes for the purpose of school accountability carry the risk of narrowing of the curriculum to tested subjects, typically numeracy and literacy. As such, some education systems also include standardized tests in science as part of their high stakes testing regime....

Purpose The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) intends to promote responsible forestry through its certification scheme. The primary engine that drives this promotion is auditing. Audits serve a dual purpose: they make forest managers accountable for their claim of meeting the FSC standard, and...

Objectives: This study seeks to estimate whether individuals' risk and time preferences are predictive of self employment status and entry. Prior Work: The low risk aversion of those who are self employed is well established in theory and empirical evidence, there is less evidence however on...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of mindfulness awareness practice (MAP) on mid-level health-care managers’ leadership. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 11 mid-level health-care managers in eastern Canada took part in an intensive weekend retreat and a...