The Great Lakes region of Central Asia (GLRCA) is the largest dryland in the middle temperate zone of the northern hemisphere and is characterized by precipitation occurring mainly in spring. However, little attention has been paid to the response of vegetation growth to spring climate change in...

The practice of recruiting, hiring, deploying, and managing an organization's personnel is known as human resource management (HRM). Human resource management (HRM) is a term that is frequently used interchangeably with the term "Human resources". Human Resource Management is concerned with the...

In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant economic shock in countries worldwide, negatively affecting every aspect of the world economy. Due to the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, governments imposed a lockdown on households to slow the spread of the pandemic. It was...

This article analyzes changes in recycling behavior using a longitudinal national U.S. dataset with over 235,000 pairs of same-household observations to measure changes in recycling behavior. Changes in recycling are greater if others in the county increased their recycling rates. Policies that...

Alternative payment models have been proposed as a solution to the high costs of health care. While these models typically decrease consumption of formal post-acute care, they may result in a compensatory increase in the need for and use of informal or family caregiving. We estimate the effect...

From the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to late 2021, international immigration flows to the US decreased significantly. We document the timing and the characteristics of these significant changes in flows, their evolution until late 2022 and their geographic and sector distribution. We...