OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of Cash and Counseling on Medicaid beneficiaries' primary informal caregivers and describe the experiences of their directly hired workers. STUDY SETTING Beneficiaries in Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey voluntarily enrolled in the demonstration and were randomly assigned to direct their own Medicaid supportive services as Cash and Counseling consumers (the t...

We have investigated the strength of ultraviolet Fe II emission from quasars within the environments of Large Quasar Groups (LQGs) in comparison with quasars elsewhere, for 1.1 6 z̄LQG 6 1.7, using the DR7QSO catalogue of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We use the Weymann et al. W2400 equivalent width, defined between the rest-frame continuum-windows 2240–2255 and 2665–2695 Å, as the measure of th...

X.-Z. HUANG *, M. A. CHAHINE, J. G. FRYE , D. M. CASH , E. P. LESHO, D. W. CRAFT 1, L. E. LINDLER3 AND M. P. NIKOLICH 1 1 Division of Bacterial and Rickettsial Diseases, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA 2 Bacterial Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance Research Unit, Agriculture Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Athens, GA, USA 3 Chemical Biologic...

Foreigners can act as agents of change in organizations more effectively than domestic agents. In this study, I look at Sweden as a natural experiment where I can observe different types of investors and how they may affect change within the firm. The observable result is an improvement in firm performance. I term active foreign investors as those that are concerned about control rights over a ...

The Center for Global Development (CGD) has been working on a new approach to foreign aid called Cash on Delivery Aid (COD Aid) in which donors commit to make payments in direct proportion to measured progress towards a shared objective. The COD Aid approach builds on a trend in foreign aid modalities to pay for results and give greater autonomy to recipient countries in determining how to spen...

This paper examines the relationship between corporate valuations and the presence, size, incentives, and identity of multiple large shareholders. Using data on a large number of firms across Western Europe, we find that about one-third of all firms, and over 40 percent of firms with one large owner, have two or more owners that each holds more than 10 percent of the voting rights. We find that...