Ethnographic and qualitative research have documented strategic behavior among low-income parents in response to child support and welfare policy, including the acceptance of ’under-the-table’ child support payments and noncooperation with child support authorities. In particular, low-income parents of children on welfare have an incentive to avoid the formal child support system, since most st...

BACKGROUND In Kenya, where 60 to 80% of the urban residents live in informal settlements (frequently referred to as slums), out-of-pocket (OOP) payments account for more than a third of national health expenditures. However, little is known on the extent to which these OOP payments are associated with personal or household financial catastrophe in the slums. This paper seeks to examine the inci...

We study security-bid auctions in which bidders compete for an asset by bidding with securities whose payments are contingent on the asset’s realized value. In formal security-bid auctions, the seller restricts the security design to an ordered set and uses a standard auction format (e.g., first or secondprice). In informal settings, bidders offer arbitrary securities and the seller chooses the...

BACKGROUND Social support can help to deal with the consequences of neurological conditions and promote functional independence and quality of life. Our aim was to evaluate the impact of neurological conditions on the use of support and health-care services in a population-based sample of community-dwelling adults with neurological conditions. METHODS Data were from the Survey of Living with ...