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Robust Bernoulli Mixture Models for Credit Portfolio Risk

Mathematical Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents comparison results and establishes risk bounds for credit portfolios within classes of Bernoulli mixture models, assuming conditionally independent defaults that are stochastically increasing in a common risk factor. We provide simple and interpretable conditions on conditional default probabilities that imply a comparison ...
Jonathan Ansari, Eva Lütkebohmert
wiley   +1 more source

Diet and Care Mediate the Effects of Parenting and Nutrition Interventions on Childhood Infections

Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The effect of community‐based multi‐input interventions that promote health, nutrition, and development on childhood infections, and the pathways that explain these effects remain unclear. We conducted a secondary analysis of a factorial‐designed clustered randomized controlled trial (N = 1489) conducted in rural Pakistan to estimate the ...
Nazia Binte Ali, Arjumand Rizvi, Saima Siyal, Wafaie W. Fawzi, Aisha K. Yousafzai, Christopher R. Sudfeld   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural Change and the Labor Share: Insights From Baumol and Lewis

Metroeconomica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper makes two contributions. First, it links a model of structural change and income distribution to a method of decomposing the aggregate labor share into sectoral contributions. Second, it formalizes the interaction between structural change and the labor share using Baumol (1967) and Lewis (1954). The premise is a shift of employment
Codrina Rada, Ansel Schiavone
wiley   +1 more source

Breast cancer screening in the Caribbean: a comparative study across six Caribbean Islands with a transatlantic perspective. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Steegmans KEC, Verstraeten S, Hugtenburg JG, Lethongsavarn V, Ponson N, Nuesch D, van Tol E, Libier S, Ljumanovic R, George S, Glaser L, van Kampen S, Gumbs C, Alphonso S, Stürup-Toft S, Browne JL, Schielen PCJI.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Blended Delivery of a Primary Care Parenting Program for Child Development: A Randomized Clinical Trial. [PDF]

JAMA Netw Open
Chang SM, Smith JA, Wright AS, Rowe-Porter J, Shaw-Kelly K, Lopez-Boo F, Walker SP.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Effect of Brazil's Family Health Program on Cognitive Skills

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of Brazil's Family Health Program (Programa Saude da Familia, FHP) on cognitive skills (measured by test scores) of fifth‐grade students. We use biennial data from national exams between 2007 and 2015, and variation in the FHP implementation date across municipalities, birth cohort, and test year to identify the ...
Pinar Mine Gunes, Magda Tsaneva
wiley   +1 more source

"I'm lonely": An underrecognized marker of silent suffering in PWE in underresourced settings? [PDF]

Epilepsy Behav Rep
Ali A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Differential Pathophysiological Drivers of Susceptibility to Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatotic Liver Disease: Ethnic Differences in Insulin Dynamics, Whole‐Body Fat Metabolism, and Organ‐Specific Lipid Deposition

Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction This narrative review explores the epidemiological evidence and potential underlying pathophysiological defects underlying the disproportionately greater risk of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiometabolic disease in people of South Asian and African Caribbean ancestry compared with White Europeans.
Daniel J. Cuthbertson, Martin Whyte, Alex E. Henney, Uazman Alam, Louise Goff, Barbara A. Fielding, A. Margot Umpleby   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence of a putative new species Haemagogus 'Trinidad sp. A' from the Caribbean sharing mitogenome lineages with species endemic to the Amazon. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Ali RLMN, Singh S, Sandiford SL, Lee Y, Daniel B, Shui-Feng R, Severson DW, Ramsubhag A, Norris DE.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Global Perspective on Trends in the Use of Withdrawal and Periodic Abstinence for Pregnancy Prevention

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Periodic abstinence and withdrawal (the dominant methods in the “traditional methods” category) have been used to prevent pregnancy in both historical and contemporary contexts and, in some countries, continue to be used despite increased availability and use of modern methods. Yet research on family planning programs and contraceptive methods
Vladimíra Kantorová, Jamaica Corker, Joseph Molitoris, Philipp Ueffing, Aisha Dasgupta   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source