We examine the impact of transfers between methadone treatment prescribing physicians on 1-year retention. Episode data (n=13,359; 1996 to 2001) drawn from a Canadian population-based methadone registry were analysed using a binary logistic regression model. The odds ratios for remaining in treatment for 365 days or more decreased for repeated episodes of treatment, but increased with age and n...

Libertad González1 and Sofia Karina Trommlerová2? 1Libertad González is an associate professor of economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra the Barcelona Graduate School Economics. 2Sofia Trommlerová a postdoctoral researcher in Barcelona, Spain. Email: sofia.trommlerova{at}iheid.ch

What motivates family members to share resources? Past research argues for, on the one hand, love and altruism, and on the other, the expectation of reciprocity. Drawing on this literature, this paper examines intergenerational transfers between small farmers and their non-coresident children in the rural area around the city of Altamira, Pará, Brazil. We apply GoM (Grade of Membership) models ...

in state-investor dispute, investor tends that umbrella clause transfers all contractual claims to treaty claims. by contracts, state follows narrow interpretation of this clause. up to ilc articles, establishing of responsibility of state for breach of contract requires tow preconditions. first state is merely responsible when state condoct has been of governmental nature and second is that br...

To study the response of runoff to extreme changes in land use, Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model was used construct historical, extreme, future scenarios for several major landscape types a permafrost region northeastern China. The results show that SWAT is applicable Tahe River Basin; forestlands, shrublands, wetlands, grasslands are main land-use this basin, transfers among them fr...

A dynamic market for farmland transactions can contribute to an increase in average farm size and realising economies of scale farming. China, with more than 200 million small fragmented farms, has launched a new wave land tenure reforms that foster transfers improve agricultural efficiency. However, the factors influence are far from clear. We aim understand rental determinants response pilot ...

As evidenced by the radical changes to state organisation, legitimacy and international order in past couple of centuries with development nationalist ideology, nationalism inherently carries a spatial dimension that translates into an assertion for control land. This way, it transforms land ancestral national homeland rightfully belonging ‘the nation’. But what if was lost another nation? Emba...