The corporatization of primary care in the USA and the UK over recent years has transformed the way that these services are managed and delivered. Traditional approaches based around small practices of doctors and their teams as the primary organizational unit have been largely overtaken by new...

In this paper, we consider the potential impact of moving off of welfare and of entering the work force (both separately and together) upon the wellbeing of parents and children. Our premise is that the new welfare policies limiting the availability of public assistance and mandating increased...

Although it has long been known that parental socioeconomic status correlates strongly with various measures of child and adult achievement, the causal roleplayed by income remains controversial. Important unanswered questions include: 1) the role of the timing of economic deprivation during...