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When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze how group sociology influences physician incentive pay and behavior. We conclude that informal...
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Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital … executive officers of these hospitals are then traced by hand. The CEOs are classified into physicians and non …
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There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female … physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii …) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the …
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-poverty program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …
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We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...
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-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We …
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The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …
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mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son correlations and analyses of intergenerational …
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This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …
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The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 … to 1996 a door-to-door outreach family planning and maternalchild health program. Village and individual data confirm a … estimated in addition to fertility: women’s health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally …
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