from Market Design at http://bit.ly/2iAITTX on December 31, 2016 at 09:13AM The future is the hardest thing to predict, and the coming year is looking particularly unpredictable.But people are resilient, and we’ll learn something about the resilience of democratic institutions: I’m cautiously optimistic. In the past year, I noted the passing of game theorists Tom Schelling, […]
from Google Alert at http://bit.ly/2iAi9D7 on December 31, 2016 at 05:57AM (Senior) Health Economist. United Kingdom, England, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. Online bewerben! Drucken. Job-Fakten. With a remit to …
from Market Design at http://bit.ly/2iQnwRT on December 31, 2016 at 05:32AM I had a long-running NSF grant at the NBER in the years when I was at Harvard, called "Collaborative Research on Kidney Exchange." I recently filed a final report for the last leg of it, which ran from 2011-2016. (I’m still collaborating on kidney […]
from Econsalut at http://bit.ly/2hzsf5A on December 31, 2016 at 05:03AM MAYNARD MATTERSCritical Thinking on Health Policy For any health economist, Alan Maynard is a reference. We’ve been reading his contributions for decades and now we can read a book (free to… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other […]
from Google Alert at http://bit.ly/2hBS6Nk on December 30, 2016 at 08:57PM We have an exciting and challenging opportunity within our Health Economics and Strategic Pricing function for a focused and driven individual who is …
from Market Design at http://bit.ly/2iOqz9l on December 30, 2016 at 08:48PM The NY Times has the story: China Bans Its Ivory Trade, Moving Against Elephant Poaching "China announced on Friday that it was banning all commerce in ivory by the end of 2017, a move that would shut down the world’s largest ivory market and could […]
from THCB at http://bit.ly/2ilLUrm on December 30, 2016 at 09:53AM By JIM PURCELL In 1991, William Strauss and Neil Howe wrote the book Generations. It was recognized then and today as remarkable. The authors posit the history of America as a succession of generational biographies, beginning in 1584 and proceeds to the children of 1991. […]
from PeterUbel.com at http://bit.ly/2hTI0oZ on December 30, 2016 at 06:26AM Taste versus health: That’s a trade-off we are often faced with when deciding what to eat. Some foods are bad for our health but happen to taste quite good. All of us have limited willpower, and when we are exhausted those unhealthy foods become harder […]
from Market Design at http://bit.ly/2ikT8vQ on December 30, 2016 at 05:44AM In a nuanced back and forth, the NY Times has suggested that the American Kidney Fund is abusing its status as a charity for patients who can’t otherwise afford dialysis by only encouraging applications from patients at clinics which contribute to the AKF. They […]
from Journal of Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2ikotiu on December 30, 2016 at 02:30AM Publication date: Source:Journal of Health Economics Author(s): Neeraj Sood, Abby Alpert, Kayleigh Barnes, Peter Huckfeldt, José J. Escarce
from Journal of Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2ieRoq4 on December 30, 2016 at 02:30AM Publication date: Source:Journal of Health Economics Author(s): Jacob Glazer, Thomas G. McGuire
from Journal of Health Economics at http://bit.ly/2ikqGKJ on December 30, 2016 at 02:30AM Publication date: Source:Journal of Health Economics Author(s): Audrey Laporte, Adrian Rohit Dass, Brian S. Ferguson
from Google Alert at http://bit.ly/2ik4dNO on December 29, 2016 at 11:49PM Contract disputes are common between insurers and providers, but one health economist said earlier this month that the potential break between …
from Healthcare Economist at http://bit.ly/2hSewHW on December 29, 2016 at 05:46PM A “shadowy crony group”? The real 2016 celebrity deaths. “The GOP isn’t going to repeal ACA.” Economists versus the Economy. Art of the Deal coming to Rx?
from Applied Health Economics and Health Policy at http://bit.ly/2icUHht on December 29, 2016 at 02:08PM Abstract Introduction Amongst populations of northern European ancestry, HFE-associated haemochromatosis is a common genetic disorder characterised by iron overload. In the absence of treatment, excess iron is stored in parenchymal tissues, causing morbidity and mortality. Population screening programmes may increase […]
from THCB at http://bit.ly/2iJV4kO on December 29, 2016 at 12:53PM By SUSAN PEREZ We’ve all been there. It’s early morning, and you wake up feeling groggier than usual, sensing the onset of a sore throat and a runny nose. Before crawling out of bed, you grab your smart phone and, naturally, Google “groggy sore throat […]
from Value in Health at http://bit.ly/2iunUlA on December 29, 2016 at 09:22AM Publication date: Source:Value in Health Author(s): Gordon Ward Fuller, Monica Hernandez, David Pallot, Fiona Lecky, Mathew Stevenson, Belinda Gabbe
from Care And Cost at http://bit.ly/2iJhSkn on December 29, 2016 at 08:57AM Brian Klepper and Richard Sutton Posted 12/28/16 in Employee Benefit News Benefits managers who rely on their health plans to keep costs down are bound to be disappointed. Despite health plans’ protests to the contrary, realizing a percentage of total expenditures is an […]
from Market Design at http://bit.ly/2il3jD3 on December 29, 2016 at 05:31AM Sigrid Fry-Revere writes to me about her updated living donor proposal:"The big advantage of this proposal are as follows: 1) It helps those in need of organs who need help most — those at the front of the waiting list. These people, if they […]
from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes at http://bit.ly/2iI4uJl on December 29, 2016 at 05:22AM Background: Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is an advance microscopic technique that provides three dimensional structures of cell surfaces with high resolution. In the present study AFM was used for comparative analysis of surface topology of phage infected and uninfected Uropathogenic […]
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/2hshL7J on December 29, 2016 at 04:39AM After my very fulfilling 2016 of learning new things, I want to spend 2017 learning new skills. I’ve come up with a list, but I’m want your input on what I might do. I also want to see if you have better ideas. Ideally, […]
from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes at http://bit.ly/2ikmHA3 on December 29, 2016 at 01:15AM Digital access to chemical journals resulted in a vast array of molecular information that is now available in the supplementary material files in PDF format. However, extracting this molecular information, generally from a PDF document format is a daunting task. […]
from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes at http://bit.ly/2irqrwQ on December 29, 2016 at 01:15AM Seismic activity is associated with crustal stress relaxation, creating inelastic strain in a medium due to faulting. Inelastic strain affects the stress field around a weak body and causes stress concentration around the body, because the body itself has already […]
from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes at http://bit.ly/2htJico on December 29, 2016 at 01:15AM No description available
from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes at http://bit.ly/2iroFvW on December 29, 2016 at 01:15AM Different from standard sampling strategy in compressive sensing (CS), we present a compressive partial sampling framework called adaptive-random sampling and recovery (ASR) for image. It could faithfully recover images by hybridizing random samples with edge-extracted pixels with much lower sampling […]
from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes at http://bit.ly/2htI2pD on December 29, 2016 at 01:15AM Background: This study was carried out to isolate and characterize the bacterial strains from lindane-contaminated soil and they were also assessed for their lindane-degrading potential. Methods: In this study the enrichment culture method was used for isolation of lindane degrading […]
from Healthcare Economist at http://bit.ly/2iH4J7w on December 28, 2016 at 10:48PM When running an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, one common metric to assess model fit is the R-squared (R2). The R2 metric can is calculated as follows. R2 = 1 – [Σi(yi-ŷi)2]/[Σi(yi-ȳ)2] The dependent variable is y, the predicted value from the OLS regression […]
from THCB at http://bit.ly/2iFQG26 on December 28, 2016 at 02:13PM By GARY MENDOZA During the campaign, President-elect Trump said “(w)hen it comes time to negotiate the cost of drugs, we are going to negotiate like crazy.” While the President-elect’s pronouncements can’t always be taken at face value, this one should be. In its December 7, […]
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/2if7Zbn on December 28, 2016 at 12:19PM I wrote this back in 2010: A couple of years ago, I was reading a biography of Albert Einstein. I was struck by how much he, and scientists like him, we versed in philosophy. I realized it was one of the areas in […]
from Google Alert at http://bit.ly/2i8tjRG on December 28, 2016 at 11:51AM He was delivering the keynote address at the International Conference of Health Economics and Outcomes Research at KMC, Manipal, recently.
from Health Economics Review at http://bit.ly/2htOBbN on December 28, 2016 at 11:45AM Background: This article entails an innovative approach to smart grid technology implementation, as it connects governance research with legal analysis. We apply the empirico-legal ‘ILTIAD framework’, which combines Elinor Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework with institutional legal theory (ILT), to an […]
from Health Economics Review at http://bit.ly/2irqrwQ on December 28, 2016 at 11:45AM Seismic activity is associated with crustal stress relaxation, creating inelastic strain in a medium due to faulting. Inelastic strain affects the stress field around a weak body and causes stress concentration around the body, because the body itself has already released stress. Therefore, […]
from Health Economics Review at http://bit.ly/2htJico on December 28, 2016 at 11:45AM No description available
from Health Economics Review at http://bit.ly/2iroFvW on December 28, 2016 at 11:45AM Different from standard sampling strategy in compressive sensing (CS), we present a compressive partial sampling framework called adaptive-random sampling and recovery (ASR) for image. It could faithfully recover images by hybridizing random samples with edge-extracted pixels with much lower sampling rate. The new […]
from Health Economics Review at http://bit.ly/2htI2pD on December 28, 2016 at 11:45AM Background: This study was carried out to isolate and characterize the bacterial strains from lindane-contaminated soil and they were also assessed for their lindane-degrading potential. Methods: In this study the enrichment culture method was used for isolation of lindane degrading bacterial isolates, in […]
from Health Economics Review at http://bit.ly/2hrABiK on December 28, 2016 at 11:45AM This paper investigates international differences in wage inequality and skills and whether a compressed wage distribution is associated with high unemployment across core OECD countries. Wage dispersion and wage structure are widely debated among policymakers; compressed wage structure is often perceived as an […]
from Health Economics Review at http://bit.ly/2iChpAy on December 28, 2016 at 11:45AM This paper analyses wage dynamics in Italy in the last 25 years with a special focus on the recent recession. Despite the rather rigid Italian institutional setting, using linked employer-employee data we find that wage rigidities, albeit always present, have been subdued during the recessionary […]
from Health Economics Review at http://bit.ly/2icrMZ2 on December 28, 2016 at 11:45AM This paper examines the earnings penalties and premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are divided into four categories: non-professional own-account workers, employers and own-account professionals, informal wage employees, and formal wage employees. Approximately half of the workers in […]
from Health Economics Review at http://bit.ly/2hruN8V on December 28, 2016 at 11:45AM The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper, I illustrate their long-term consequences on contemporaneous socio-economic outcomes, drawing from my own previous work on the topic and from an extensive review […]
from Health Economics Review at http://bit.ly/2icrLUY on December 28, 2016 at 11:45AM There are considerable differences in gender unemployment gaps across the EU. We use labor force survey data on 21 countries to perform a series of data decompositions and show that the cross-country variation in gender unemployment gaps is primarily driven by the differences […]
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