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No full textAuthor citation graphs for 6 field of studies: Management, Psychology, Economics, Physics(APS), Political Science, Computer Scienc
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No full textAuthor citation graphs for 6 field of studies: Management, Psychology, Economics, Physics(APS), Political Science, Computer Scienc
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No full textAuthor citation graphs for 6 field of studies: Management, Psychology, Economics, Physics(APS), Political Science, Computer Scienc
Women in place: the politics of gender segregation in Iran
No full textWhile much has been written about the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution on life in Iran, discussions about the everyday life of Iranian women have been glaringly missing. Women in Place offers a gripping inquiry into gender segregation policies and women’s rights in contemporary Iran. Author Nazanin Shahrokni takes us onto gender-segregated buses, inside a women-only park, and outside the closed doors of stadiums where women are banned from attending men’s soccer matches. The Islamic character of the state, she demonstrates, has had to coexist, fuse, and compete with technocratic imperatives, pragmatic considerations regarding the viability of the state, international influences, and global trends. Through a retelling of the past four decades of state policy regulating gender boundaries, Women in Place challenges notions of the Iranian state as overly unitary, ideological, and isolated from social forces and pushes us to contemplate the changing place of women in a social order shaped by capitalism, state-sanctioned Islamism, and debates about women’s rights. Shahrokni throws into sharp relief the ways in which the state strives to constantly regulate and contain women’s bodies and movements within the boundaries of the “proper” but simultaneously invests in and claims credit for their expanded access to public spaces
Essays on housing economics and household finance
Get PDFIn chapter one, I provide new evidence on the house price elasticity of consumption by exploiting micro-level consumption data from the Nielsen consumer panel for 2004 through 2016. I estimate elasticity as a non-parametric function of household characteristics, locations and time using Generalized Random Forest (GRF), a causal machine learning model. At the county-level, the average elasticity ranges from 0.04 to 0.16 with some neighboring counties being up to eight standard deviations apart, while household elasticities range from 0.01 to 0.2. Among all characteristics, having a child, household size, and the age of a household head create substantial disparities. I find that locations with volatile housing markets are less elastic. This means that failing to account for local heterogeneities overestimates the magnitude of total consumption responses in booms and busts. Moreover, local heterogeneities in elasticity camouflage the existing asymmetry in responses. Looking within a county reveals that households, especially more financially-constrained households, are more elastic in busts than in booms. Policymakers should account for this individual and geographic heterogeneity in consumption responses to house price changes when formulating policy.
In chapter two, we quantify the relationship between housing markets and peer-to-peer home-sharing markets using bookings and listings data from more than a million Airbnb listings across the United States and individual house sales. We use a new shift-share approach for identification and find that a one percent increase in Airbnb leads to a 0.06% increase in house prices, 0.14% decrease in total housing sales, and does not significantly change for-sales inventory or rental prices. We interpret fewer transactions, higher prices, and more houses for sales as evidence for improvement in matching quality. Home-owners can afford to hold on to their houses and wait to be well-matched. Also, buyers can live in a short-term rental property while looking for the best match. Moreover, we estimate Airbnb's effect on housing markets as a non-parametric function of zip code characteristics. We show that house prices increase more in locations with less elastic housing supply. The non-parametric results show that matching quality improvement is more pronounced in places with lower housing supply elasticity.
In chapter three, using the introduction of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as a natural experiment, I test how for-profit (FP) and non-profit (NP) status affects the level of response to the created investment opportunity. In this research, I investigate FP and NP hospitals investment changes in response to the ACA. I implement a difference in difference methodology to test whether FP and NP hospitals responded differently to this legislation. The regression findings conclude that FP hospitals invested 1.6% more than NPs in the aftermath of the ACA. This paper suggests NPs' restricted financing options as a possible explanation for their different investment response.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2022-12-01The student, Nazanin Khazra, accepted the attached license on 2020-09-09 at 11:12.The student, Nazanin Khazra, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-09-09 at 11:20.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-09-15 at 08:39.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15805 on 2021-03-04 at 16:30:15Made available in DSpace on 2021-03-05T21:45:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Legal Features and Aspects of Medical Tourism: Legal Aspects of Medical Tourism
No full textBackground and Aim: The high cost of health care and long waiting time of the patients caused the creation of the motivation that patients, especially from the developed countries, receive these services in other countries. On the other hand, also in developing countries, factors such as globalization and liberalization of trade in health services led the way for the rapid growth of medical tourism. However, this industry is facing several challenges, among the most important, legal aspects can be noted. Since little research has been done in this regard, this study aims to evaluate the legal aspects related to medical tourism.
Materials and Methods: This study is a review article on the legal issues of medical tourism. To collect information on the legal issues of medical tourism, databases, SID and PubMed, Google Scholar were examined using the keywords "medical tourism", "health tourism" and "legal aspects" and about 47 related articles were found, after studying the titles and abstracts of the articles found, 23 subjects which were associated with the research topic, were studied. Then the results obtained were analyzed.
Ethical Considerations: Honesty and integrity were taken into consideration in searching, analyzing, and reporting the texts.
Findings: According to the results of the study, the medical tourism industry is growing, but there are challenges related to the legal aspects of medical tourism include the areas of access to services, medical errors, health insurances, licensing, and regulatory approvals of centers, medical operations, and medical technologies.
Conclusion: Medical Tourism legal challenges should be taken into consideration by policymakers and trustee institutions in this industry, as according to the globalization of these challenges, trying to eliminate them is necessary, which by turning threats into opportunities, facilitates the attraction process of foreign patients.
*Corresponding Author: Nazanin Abualhasani; Email: [email protected]; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3616-3595
Please cite this article as: Abualhasani N. Legal Features and Aspects of Medical Tourism. Bioeth Health Law J. 2021; 1:1-6: (e6). http://doi.org/10.22037/bhl.v1i1.38131  
Paradox of transfers: Distribution and the Dutch disease (Ryerson University Working Papers 071)
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