Reporting changes in right ventricular systolic pressure: insights from Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis. [PDF]
Bagherzadeh SP +12 more
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A joint model of cost and churn for the insurance industry
Abstract In insurance markets, claim costs are highly variable, heavy‐tailed, and difficult to predict. At the same time, policyholder retention and lapse behavior (customer churn) are critical determinants of long‐term profitability and solvency. Most existing models in the literature treat claim costs and lapses as independent, overlooking potential ...
Yumo Dong +4 more
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High-Resolution dataset on elderly care facility accessibility and inequality in 21 Chinese cities (2020). [PDF]
Han X, Wang Y, Wei Z, Jiang H.
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Voting Red Again: How Social Capital and Local Change Drove the Trump Swing
ABSTRACT Social capital has long been regarded as a bulwark of democratic life. Yet in the United States—as across much of the democratic world—some of the communities with the densest social ties have proved the most receptive to antisystem politics.
Pedro Fierro +3 more
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Regional Disparities and Associated Factors Underlying CDC Health Professional Distribution in China. [PDF]
Zheng J, Hu T, Xu S, Xiao J, Xiong C.
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Capitalism and Femicide: an Empirical Inquiry
ABSTRACT This study investigates the claim that capitalism (or neoliberal reforms) is associated with higher rates of femicide, which is often identified as an outcome of the capitalist exploitation of women in parts of the feminist literature. Employing a panel of 163 countries observed between 1990 and 2023, we find no significantly positive ...
Christian Bjørnskov, Martin Rode
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Depression meets obesity: Co-occurrence patterns, temporal trends and socioeconomic correlates across 199 countries and territories. [PDF]
Yang Y +7 more
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Pension Systems (Un)sustainability and Fiscal Constraints: A Comparative Analysis
ABSTRACT Using an overlapping generations model, two new indicators of public pension system sustainability are proposed: the pension space, which measures the capacity to pay for pension expenditures out of labour taxation, and the pension space exhaustion probability reflecting demographic uncertainties.
Burkhard Heer +2 more
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Neural focalization of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the inferior parietal lobule is associated with inhibitory control performance in adolescence. [PDF]
Meredith WJ +8 more
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Inequality of Opportunity in a Multiperiod Framework
ABSTRACT This paper offers a simple model to evaluate and measure inequality of opportunity in a multiperiod framework, in which both circumstances and effort may change over time. We adopt a norm‐based approach and an axiomatic methodology: we first characterise two alternative definitions of a ‘fair distribution’, associated respectively with the ex ...
Domenico Moramarco +2 more
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