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The Spanish income tax reform of 2015: analysis of the effects on poverty and redistribution using microsimulation tools

Public Sector Economics, 2017
In this work we analyze the effects of the 2015 reform of the Spanish personal income tax (PIT) on tax revenue, liquidity, redistribution, progressivity, and poverty, using microdata. Tax reform has increased the redistributive effect.
Nuria Badenes-Plá, José María Buenaventura-Zabala   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The OncoSim-Breast cancer microsimulation model [PDF]

Current Oncology, 2020
ABSTRACT Background The increasing demand for health care resources requires measures to evaluate the impact of cancer control approaches. A cancer simulation model can help integrate new knowledge to inform clinical and policy decisions. OncoSim-Breast is a breast cancer simulation model. This paper
Jean H. E. Yong, Claude Nadeau, William M. Flanagan, Andrew J. Coldman, Keiko Asakawa, Rochelle Garner, Natalie Fitzgerald, Martin J. Yaffe, Anthony B. Miller   +8 more
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The Optimal Lung Cancer Ct Screening Strategy: A Cost‐Effectiveness Study Incorporating Nelson Evidence, Evolving Cost of Treatment and Smoking Cessation Interventions

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lung cancer screening implementation is taking shape worldwide. Programme design requires specifying eligibility criteria, screening interval, and the optimal age range. We estimate benefits and harms of competing strategies, integrating NELSON results, smoking cessation interventions, contemporary treatment costs, and the management of ...
Koen de Nijs, Kevin ten Haaf, Dana Moldovanu, Juul Hubert, Isabelle van den Bosch, Carlijn van der Aalst, Harry J. de Koning   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heuristic Fuzzy Approach to Traffic Flow Modelling and Control on Urban Networks

Future Internet
Computer-aided transport modelling is essential for testing different control strategies for traffic lights. One approach to modelling traffic control is by heuristically defining fuzzy rules for the control of traffic light systems and applying them to ...
Alexander Gegov, Boriana Vatchova, Yordanka Boneva, Alexandar Ichtev   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Simulating family life courses: An application for Italy, Great Britain, Norway, and Sweden

Demographic Research, 2021
Background: Family patterns in Western countries have changed substantially across birth cohorts. The spread of unmarried cohabitation, the decline and postponement of marriage and fertility, and the rise in nonmarital births, partnership instability ...
Maria Winkler-Dworak, Eva Beaujouan, Paola Di Giulio, Martin Spielauer   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Affordable and Clean Energy: CO2 Emissions, Resilience and Inequality

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable development means building the resilience of both people and the planet. It includes implementing strategies which reduce emissions while also enabling more vulnerable households to transition to clean and affordable energy. This paper examines household CO2 emissions in Ireland to highlight those who emit most and least in key ...
Nessa Winston, Monika da Silva Pedroso, Ciarán Mac Domhnaill   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Method to Use Transport Microsimulation Models to Create Synthetic Distributed Acoustic Sensing Datasets

Applied Sciences
This research introduces a new method for creating synthetic Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) datasets from transport microsimulation models. The process involves modeling detailed vehicle interactions, trajectories, and characteristics from the PTV ...
Ignacio Robles-Urquijo, Juan Benavente, Javier Blanco García, Pelayo Diego Gonzalez, Alayn Loayssa, Mikel Sagues, Luis Rodriguez-Cobo, Adolfo Cobo   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Common and Foral IRPF after the 1998 reform: analysis of the differences of collection and redistribution through microsimulation [PDF]

Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 2003
After the reforms introduced in Spanish personal income tax (IRPF) in 1998, foral and common territory tax structures present differentiated structures. These normative differences are reviewed in the first part of the paper.
Francisco José Delgado Rivero
doaj  

Projected long-term effects of colorectal cancer screening disruptions following the COVID-19 pandemic

eLife, 2023
The aftermath of the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic may contribute to the widening of disparities in colorectal cancer (CRC) outcomes due to differential disruptions to CRC screening.
Pedro Nascimento de Lima, Rosita van den Puttelaar, Anne I Hahn, Matthias Harlass, Nicholson Collier, Jonathan Ozik, Ann G Zauber, Iris Lansdorp-Vogelaar, Carolyn M Rutter   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Chronic Disease and Disability in the United States: Trends, Inequities, and Imperatives for Policy Reform

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Position Universal, High‐Quality Education as a Foundational Public Health Strategy. Long‐term health and life expectancy in the United States are shaped more by educational attainment than by any other single factor. Disparities in access to early childhood, K‐12, and higher education perpetuate cycles of chronic disease, economic ...
ALI H. MOKDAD, LAURA DWYER‐LINDGREN, CHRISTOPHER J.L. MURRAY   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source