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Improving nurse retention in the British National Health Service : the impact of job satisfaction on intentions to quit
Shields, Michael; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 2000
In recent years the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the political agenda. In this paper we investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses,...
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The literacy hour
Machin, Stephen (contributor); McNally, Sandra (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
In this paper, we evaluate the effect of the literacy hour in English primary schools on pupil attainment. The National Literacy Project (NLP) was undertaken in about 400 English primary schools in 1997 and 1998. We compare the reading and overall English attainment of children in NLP schools as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001896442
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For better or worse? : subjective expectations and cost-benefit trade-offs in health behavior
Conti, Gabriella; Giustinelli, Pamela - 2023
We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in the UK. We estimate a model of compliance choice with uncertain costs and benefits to quantify utility tradeoffs, decompose group differences in compliance, and compute...
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Delivering parenting interventions through health services in the Caribbean
Walker, Susan P.; Powell, Christine; Chang, Susan M.; … - 2019
There is limited information on whether integrating childhood interventions with health and nutrition services interventions is effective and feasible. In this trial we used group delivery at five routine visits from age 3-18 months, and comprised: short films of child development messages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974473
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A public good version of the collective household model : an empirical approach with an application to British household data
Klaveren, Chris van (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The … novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and … are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …
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Who pays for general training? : new evidence for British men and women
Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002
We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411235
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Do primary healthcare facilities in more remote areas provide more medical services? : spatial evidence from rural Western China
Shen, Chi; Lai, Sha; Deng, Qiwei; Cao, Dan; Zhao, Dantong; … - 2023
Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services offered by PHIs, especially from a spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318198
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Talking therapy : impacts of a nationwide mental health service in England
Oparina, Ekaterina; Krekel, Christian; Srisuma, Sorawoot - 2024
Common mental health problems impose significant costs on individuals and societies, yet healthcare systems often overlook them. We provide the first causal evidence on the effectiveness of a pioneering, nationwide mental health service for treating depression and anxiety disorders in England...
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Intergenerational mobility of housework time in the United Kingdom
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Zhu, Yu - 2014
will devote to housework. However, when endogeneity of the uses of time are considered using the British Household Panel …
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Household collective models : three decades of theoretical contributions and empirical evidence
Donni, Olivier; Molina, José Alberto - 2018
Household collective models celebrate their thirtieth birthday. The collective approach constitutes, perhaps, the … to some excellent surveys of household collective models (Strauss et al., 2000; Vermeulen, 2002; Donni and Chiappori … papers, the collective framework has been used to provide theoretical results for a number of household issues; for example …
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