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Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Tourist Spending
Tourism companies adopt the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve their operations’ administration and satisfy and...
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The ethnically and racially uneven role of water infrastructure spending in rural economic development
Here we test the hypothesis that local government spending on water infrastructure is associated with higher levels of economic development, and the...
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Changes in healthcare spending attributable to obesity and overweight: payer- and service-specific estimates
BackgroundNational efforts to control US healthcare spending are potentially undermined by changes in patient characteristics, and in particular...
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Socioeconomic effects and the role of public spending decomposition on income mobility: a moderated regression model
The aim of this paper is to investigate, empirically, what components of public spending imply a decreasing effect on income mobility, and what...
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Cryptocurrency and double spending history: transactions with zero confirmation
We develop a general equilibrium model of cryptocurrency to study a double spending prevention mechanism without payment confirmations. Agents trade...
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Predictors of the gender gap in household educational spending among school and college-going children in India
Though India has achieved near-universal primary school attendance and bridged the gender gap, secondary and technical education schooling remains...
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Mental health impact of cuts to local government spending on cultural, environmental and planning services in England: a longitudinal ecological study
BackgroundOver the past decade, there have been significant and unequal cuts to local authority (LA) budgets, across England. Cultural, environmental...
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Smokers’ strategies to reduce tobacco spending: self-reported use and differences across subgroups. Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Netherlands Survey
BackgroundThe cost of tobacco is one of the most reported reasons for smoking cessation. Rather than quitting, smokers can use also strategies to...
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Blockchain-based multi-malicious double-spending attack blacklist management model
In recent years, blockchain security issues have attracted widespread attention. Especially in terms of computing power security, when nodes have...
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Effect of adolescent female fertility and healthcare spending on maternal and neonatal mortality in low resource setting of South Asia
BackgroundMaternal and neonatal mortality is high in South Asia. Recent studies have identified factors such as adolescent female fertility,...
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Implications of Aging Population and Health Spending for Thai Economic Growth
With the increasing aging population, the foreseeable growth in the associated medical-care demand and health spending has posed a tremendous...
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Public health spending in Sub-Saharan Africa: exploring transmission mechanisms using the latent growth curve mediation model
In response to the imperatives of universal health coverage, structural factors that may hinder the effectiveness of increased spending in...
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To Change or Not to Change: Governments’ Spending Intentions
As the Italian budget policy is characterised by a punctuated pattern of budget changes with mostly tiny modifications, does this mean that Italian...
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Understanding the relationship between advertising spending and happiness at the country level
Concerns have been raised as to the potentially deleterious effects of advertising on society. We examine this issue given the recent calls to...
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Effects of Deflation and Macroeconomic Shocks on Leisure Spending in the Pre-War Era: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1890–1940
Pre-war baseball attendance data afford a unique opportunity to assess how leisure spending fared not only through deflation but also after such...
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Productive effects of public spending, spillovers, and optimal matching grant rates
This study uses the model in which a central government gives a subsidy to the jurisdictions, and analyzes the optimal matching grant rate for local...
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Is government spending in the education and health sector necessary for human capital development?
This study intends to examine the impact of current health expenditure, domestic government health expenditure, government education expenditure,...
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Military spending, financial development, and ecological footprint in a develo** country: insights from bootstrap causality and Maki cointegration
Military spending is required for national sovereignty, but it comes at a cost. The ecological consequences of military activities remain...
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The Impact of Online Banking Services on Customer Spending Behavior
This paper is aimed on examining and testing the effect of mobile banking services on customer spending behavior and the changes caused by this...