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Trade-offs between Different Early Childhood Interventions: Evidence from Ecuador

Rosero, Jose; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011

Using a discontinuity in the funding scheme, we evaluate the impact of home visitsand child care centers on poor children and mothers in Ecuador. We find thathome visits are beneficial for children's cognitive outcomes and health and for mothers'psychological well-being but reduce mothers' labor...

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Delivering Parenting Interventions through Health Services in the Caribbean: Impact, Acceptability and Costs

Walker, Susan P.; Powell, Christine; Chang, Susan M.; … - 2015

Integrating early childhood interventions with health and nutrition services has been recommended, however there is limited information on interventions that are effective and feasible for delivery through health services. In this trial we developed and evaluated a parenting program that could...

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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,...

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The effects of audits and fines on upcoding in neonatology

Groß, Mona; Jürges, Hendrik; Wiesen, Daniel - In: Health Economics 30 (2021) 8, pp. 1978-1986

Upcoding is a common type of fraud in healthcare. However, how audit policies need to be designed to cope with upcoding … switching from detectable to less gainful undetectable upcoding is not feasible. Implications for audit policies are discussed. …

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Buying efficiency: Optimal hospital payment in the presence of double upcoding

Spika, Simon B.; Zweifel, Peter - In: Health Economics Review 9 (2019) 38, pp. 1-14

Background: With DRG payments, hospitals can game the system by 'upcoding' true patient's severity of illness. This … paper takes into account that upcoding can be performed by the chief physician and hospital management, with the extent of …-agent mechanism, the distortion due to upcoding is shown to accumulate, whereas in the bargaining case it is avoided at the level of …

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The quasi-market of employment services in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2019

; cherry picking; gaming). However, different expedients are devised in the program to minimize these shortcomings. The …

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Gaming for introducing social challenges and responsibility to young people

Perko, Igor; Mendiwelso-Bendek, Zoraida - In: Naše gospodarstvo / Our Economy 64 (2018) 4, pp. 34-48

Gaming has the potential to support the development of young people's capabilities in social responsibility (SR) and …, at the same time, represents a threat of developing undesired behaviour patterns. Successful integration of gaming in the … gaming's effects and social behaviour, the literature is analysed. To assess the state-of-the art of young people …

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The Quasi-Market of Employment Services in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2019

; cherry picking; gaming). However, different expedients are devised in the program to minimize these shortcomings. The …

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What you post is what you get: The mediator role of reached individuals in the causal relationship among posted content types and follower counts on Facebook

Poecze, Flora - In: Naše gospodarstvo / Our Economy 65 (2019) 4, pp. 57-71

existing online brand personality and gaming research, offering value to the research domain of online marketing and …

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Fortnite: The business model pattern behind the scene

Schöber, Timo; Stadtmann, Georg - 2020

We analyse the business model pattern behind the success of the Fortnite game. A theoretical model is used to examine the conditions where a Freemium strategy is appropriate. We also shed light on the structure of the in-game-shop and we analyse several features from a marketing perspective.

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