Nonpayment of water bills in G uatemala: Dissatisfaction or inability to pay?

Who will pay future hospital bills?

Inability to Give Birth or Giving Birth to Inability: A Qualitative Research about Psychological Consequences of infertility

Aim: This research has studied psychological dynamics of infertility on referred women. Mehtods: In this research, the sample of 21 infertile women to be studies were selected through purposeful sampling. Theoretical sampling process continued until data saturation. The information was gathered and data analysis was carried out by open and axial coding. Findings: The research findings showed ps...

Antibiotic resistance: who will pay the bills?

The rapid emergence of antimicrobial resistance among bacteria is a public health crisis. Infections with antimicrobial-resistant bacteria increase patient morbidity and mortality and greatly increase the cost of medical care [1–4]. The number of resistant bacteria and the diversity of molecular mechanisms of resistance have increased sharply in recent years [5, 6], but the development of newer...

The Skills to Pay the Bills: Returns to On-the-job Soft Skills Training*

The willingness of firms to provide general training to workers depends on the productivity gains from training and the likelihood that workers are retained. We evaluate the impacts of training in soft skills development on the workplace outcomes of female garment workers in Bengaluru, India. We implemented a lottery determining access to the program by randomizing lines and then workers within...

Omnibus or not: package bills and single-issue bills in a legislative bargaining game

Legislators sometimes pass unrelated issues in one bill with one vote (omnibus bills), but they often vote separately on different issues as well. In this paper, I consider a model in which the first mover chooses whether to bargain over an omnibus bill or several separate bills. The main difference between the two types of bills is that trade-offs between issues are possible with omnibus bills...