Just, Smart: Civil Rights Protections and Market-Sensitive Vacant Property Strategies

Market Power and Transferable Property Rights

Intellectual Property Rights and Market Dynamics

Mental health disabilities and human rights protections

BACKGROUND Around the world, reports regularly expose persistent and systemic human rights violations of patients in mental health services and facilities, and of those who are unable to access needed supports. A number of factors contribute - political will; the range and quality of services available; public and professional attitudes to mental health; stigma; health professionals' training a...

Intellectual property rights, market competition and access to affordable antiretrovirals.

The number of patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) has increased from around half a million in 2003 to almost 10 million in only 10 years, and will continue to increase in the coming years. Over 16 million more are eligible to start ART according to the last World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. The demand is also switching from the less expensive antiretrovirals (ARVs) that al...

Marriage Market Transfers of Resources and Property Rights

We analyze the nature of marriage market transfers (dowry) by developing a simple competitive model of the marriage market in which bridal families decide how much to transfer to their daughter and how much to transfer to a potential groom. By allocating property rights over total marital transfers in this way, the bridal family influences the outcome of household bargaining. This approach conn...