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Explanations for Persistent Nursing Shortages
Long, Mark C.
Goldfarb, Marsha G.
Goldfarb, Robert S.
This paper contributes to the economics literature on nursing market shortages by putting forward two new models that suggest three new explanations for perceived nursing shortages. The first model focuses on hospitals hiring both permanent staff nurses and temporary contract nurses. It shows that hiring both classes of nurses can represent optimizing behavior, and that an interesting kind of perceived nursing shortage results from this dual hiring. The second model posits two classes of hospitals, "premier" and "funds-constrained," and generates two distinct kinds of nursing shortages: economic shortages, involving unfilled, budgeted positions, and "noneconomic" professional standards shortages. We believe that the perceived existence of professional standards shortages may be a significant explanation for the widespread impression of persistent shortages.
2009-12-16T00:33:09Z
2009-12-16T00:33:09Z
2009-12-16T00:33:09Z
2008
Article
Mark C. Long, Marsha G. Goldfarb, and Robert S. Goldfarb (2008) "Explanations for Persistent Nursing Shortages," Forum for Health Economics and Policy: Vol. 11: Iss. 2 (Health Economics), Article 10.
http://www.bepress.com/fhep/11/2/10
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One Bad Formula Can Spoil Everything: A Simple Adjustment That Would Improve the UN's Gender Inequality Index
McDonald, Max
Koblitz, Neal
A simple change in one part of the definition of the United Nations Gender
Inequality Index (GII) could go a long way toward making it less problematic
and more useful. In the definition of the GII we propose to replace the
quantity where m is the maternal mortality rate and t is the teen pregnancy rate, by
where C1 and C2 are constants. This alternative formula is a natural one,
both because of how it combines with the other factors that go into the GII
and because it is similar to the way that the problem of near-zero denomina-
tors is handled in other areas of applied mathematics. The precise meaning
of t and m and suggested values for C1 and C2 will be given below. We
will explain the computation of the GII, discuss the other three indicators
that it is based on, and show that the simple change from aF to AF would
have useful consequences without altering the conceptual underpinning of
the GII.
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2020-10-22T23:58:57Z
2019
Article
McDonald, M., Koblitz, N. One Bad Formula Can Spoil Everything: A Simple Adjustment That Would Improve the UN’s Gender Inequality Index. Math Intelligencer 41, 27–34 (2019).
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/46301
oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/465852020-11-06T11:26:36Zcom_1773_11629com_1773_3774col_1773_11643
Local Impacts of a Global Crisis: How Washington state nonprofits are responding to COVID-19
Finchum-Mason, Emily A.
Husted, Kelly
Mary Kay Gugerty, Mary Kay Gugerty
Barnhart, Erica Mills
The COVID-19 crisis has caused deep and widespread strain across sectors and individuals since taking
hold in early 2020. Despite this adversity, nonprofits—especially those comprising the modern social
safety net—have continued to serve their communities during this tumultuous time (Kulish, 2020). This
report seeks to understand (a) the major challenges facing nonprofits in Washington state as a result of
the COVID-19 pandemic, (b) the strategies that nonprofits are using to mitigate the effects of the crisis,
(c) how nonprofits are experiencing changes in funder relationships as a result of the crisis, (d) the
degree to which nonprofits in the state have accessed assistance under the CARES Act, and (e) the most
pressing needs nonprofits have as they face the ongoing uncertainty and hardship presented by
COVID-19.
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2020-11-06T01:42:34Z
2020-10
Article
Finchum-Mason, E., Husted, K., Gugerty, M.K., & Barnhart, E. (2020). Local impacts of a global crisis: How Washington state nonprofits are responding to COVID-19. Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy.
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/46585
oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/471402021-07-27T10:49:09Zcom_1773_11629com_1773_3774col_1773_11643
Sharing Power?: The Landscape of Participatory Practices & Grantmaking Among Large U.S. Foundations
Husted, Kelly
Finchum-Mason, Emily
Suárez, David
Philanthropic foundations in the United States hold significant power in both defining societal
challenges and the manner in which those challenges are addressed. There have been
increasing calls for foundations to shift their power to affected communities and to
democratize decision-making through greater participation. Whether and how large
foundations engage stakeholders in their governance and grantmaking, however, remains an
open question. This report explores the landscape of participatory practices and grantmaking
among the largest foundations in the United States (by total assets), guided by four key
research questions.
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2021-07-26T20:26:09Z
2021-07-26
Article
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/47140
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Resilience amid uncertainty: The on-going impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on nonprofits in Washington State
Finchum-Mason, Emily A
Gugerty, Mary Kay
Barnhart, Erica Mills
This report represents the second phase of on-going research to understand how nonprofits in Washington State have responded to the twin public health crises of systemic racism and the COVID-19 pandemic, the types of support that nonprofits have been able access, and the financial and operational outlooks going forward. We find that nonprofits, which constitute a significant portion of the social safety net, took extraordinary measures to remain open and serve their communities amid intersecting health, social, and economic crises. The rapid adaptation often increased costs and put physical and psychological strain on nonprofit staff. Further, while funding deficits were not nearly as large as nonprofits expected in mid-2020 due to an abundance of emergency funding, financial outlooks remain uncertain as emergency funding pools have begun to abate. Institutional funders and policy-makers can help nonprofits weather an uncertain future by providing multi-year, unrestricted funding; funding nonprofit capacity and innovation; adopting trust-based philanthropic practices; and keeping online venues for participation public processes open.
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2021-12-13
Article
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/48138