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The increase in electric vehicles as a low‐carbon mobility option has driven interest from many workplaces and local governments to offer charging services for employees, customers and visitors. However, the lack of incentives to limit over‐consumption in shared charging resources has led to congestion issues. In this paper, we use high‐frequency data to study two deterrence mechanisms implemented at one of the largest workplace charging programs in the United States. We study both price and nonprice interventions that encourage adoption of workplace norms and charging etiquette for resource sharing in charging stations. To study these mechanisms, we use a dynamic regression discontinuity design to separately identify treatment effects with digital platform data. Our findings provide new evidence that group norms can play an important role in driving behavioral compliance when setting EV access policies. We also find that workplace norms are complements to dynamic pricing policies. We discuss the implications of this data discovery for the effective management of common pool resources in the context of workplace charging and space‐constrained environments. This article met the requirements for a Gold‐Gold JIE data openness badge described at http://jie.click/badges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a study that aimed to identify social cognitive outcomes relevant to a specific adolescent sexual risk reduction intervention for African-American adolescents and to examine the program's impact on these. Topics discussed include the study conclusions that results are promising, but more research is needed to determine the extent to which outcomes are related to short and long term risk behaviors. Also mentioned are study methods and results.

The article presents information on the health and sanitary concerns arising from nail saloons and the issues that are impacting nail technicians in the U.S. It overviews the history behind the nail saloon industry in the U.S. and its current status. It discusses the federal and state regulations concerning the precarious conditions arising from nail saloon industry and offers initiatives to make it safer.

The authors argue that researchers and developers need to revisit the theory of planned behavior, social cognitive theory, and the social, psychological theories that are predictive of sexual behavior, and it mentions innovations and research involving adolescent pregnancy prevention programs in America. Funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Adolescent Health is examined, along with the efforts to reduce adolescent sexual risk behaviors.

Little is known about how participation in home-delivered meal programs (known as Meals on Wheels), financed in part through the Older Americans Act, relates to the use of health services and the ability to age in place for elder Medicare beneficiaries. Using 2013-20 data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study, we evaluated the relationship between Meals on Wheels use and two outcomes-likelihood of continued community residence and risk for hospitalization-in the following year for Medicare beneficiaries ages sixty-five and older, overall and by gender, race, Medicaid enrollment, and frailty. Overall, Meals on Wheels users and nonusers were equally likely to still reside in the community one year later; however, continued community residence was more likely among users than nonusers who were Black, were enrolled in Medicaid, or were frail. Program use was marginally associated with increased likelihood of hospitalization in the following year overall, but more strongly so among frail users. Our findings are consistent with the heterogeneity of Medicare-age Meals on Wheels users nationwide and suggest that program benefits differ among specific populations.