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Panel Data Sample Selection Model: an Application to Employee Choice of Health Plan Type and Medical Cost Estimation [PDF]
This paper utilizes a nonparametric panel data sample selection model to correct selection bias in the analysis of longitudinal medical claims data. Selection bias in the health economics data is a common problem and many health economists have used ...
Jeonghoon Ahn
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Do Variations in State Consultation Programs Affect Construction Fatality Rates?
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Along with its enforcement program, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has a voluntary consultation program that responds to requests from firms to identify hazards at their workplaces. We studied the effects of this program on fatal work injuries in the construction industry.
Wayne B. Gray, John Mendeloff
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Physician Income Expectations and Specialty Choice [PDF]
In spite of the important role of income expectations in economics, economists know little about how people actually form these expectations. We use a unique data set that contains the explicit income expectations of medical students over a 25-year time ...
Nicholas S. Souleles, Sean Nicholson
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Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue +2 more
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Medical Tourism Market: current trends and forecasts
RUDN Journal of EconomicsThe modern medical tourism market is a fast-growing and promising industry that combines various aspects of healthcare, tourism and economics. The trends and forecasts of the development of this market are considered, the key factors of its growth are ...
Nikita S. Polishchuk, Sergei N. Lavrov
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Does use of ICT-based market information services (MIS) improve welfare of smallholder farm households: Evidence from Kenya [PDF]
The need to provide agricultural information to farmers has led to emergence of numerous ICT-based MIS projects in developing country. These projects aim at promoting commercialization of smallholder agriculture and subsequently their welfare. This study
Okello, Julius Juma
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THE RANDOM ITERATION ALGORITHM [PDF]
In the last decades, many researchers concerned their attention on fractals properties of objects. Fractals can be use to describe natural shapes so their applications are various in many fields such as informatics, economics, engineering, medical ...
Daniela Alexandra CRIŞAN +1 more
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Lipid‐based nanoparticles (LNPs) are favored for drug delivery because of their low toxicity, high biocompatibility, ability to self‐assemble into nanoparticles, and ability to enhance drug bioavailability, thereby improving drug release modulation and pharmacokinetics.
Gulizar Caliskan +3 more
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Determine of cost drivers in Activity Based Costing method of hospital services
پژوهشهای سلامتمحور, 2019 Determination of Cost Drivers through Activity Based Costing Method in Determination of Hospital Services Costs Meshkani Zahra1, Reza Pour Aziz2, Alipour Vahid3, Farabi Hero1*, Mazdaki Alireza4, Hakimi Narges5 1. Ph.D.
Zahra Meshkani +5 more
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