Increasing Educational Equity through the Principals' Partnership Program in Talaud Island

Improving immunization equity through a public-private partnership in Cambodia.

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects on immunization equity of the large-scale contracting of primary health-care services in rural areas of Cambodia. METHODS Data were obtained pre-intervention and post-intervention from a large-scale quasi-experiment in contracting with nongovernmental organizations to provide primary health care in nine rural districts of Cambodia between 1999 and mid-2001. Co...

Public health projects leap forward through Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program.

Increasing dental student diversity through the UNLV Dental Prospects Program.

Adequately providing for the health care of the growing minority population in the United States requires increased racial and ethnic diversity of the health care workforce. Long-term diversity in the dental profession depends on a more diverse student population in dental schools. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Dental Medicine's (UNLV SDM) Dental Prospects Club is a predental ed...

Increasing Borrowing Costs and the Equity Premium∗

Simulating a realistic-sized equity premium in macroeconomic models has proved a daunting challenge, hence the “equity premium puzzle”. “Resolving” the puzzle requires heavy lifting. Precise choices of particular preferences, shocks, technologies, and hard borrowing constraints can do the trick, but haven’t stopped the search for a simpler and more robust solution. This paper suggests that soft...

Equity, Efficiency and Increasing Returns