axioms of EU. In this paper, the classic Allais paradox, which predicts a systematic violation of the independence axiom, is … tested in the context of health outcomes. Seventeen of 38 participants demonstrated strict violations of independence, with …, the participants’ qualitative explanations for their behaviour show seemingly rational and not inconsistent reasoning for …

-scale, nationally representative UK study. We track the behaviour problems from age 3 to 7 to examine the emergence of problems and … whether disabled girls’ and boys’ behaviour converges or diverges from non-disabled children over time. Childhood … parenting and the home environment moderate any associations between disability and behaviour. Estimating linear growth models …

estimating the memory parameter can avoid bias incurred by misspecification of the short memory component. We introduce a broad … to a smooth interpolation of asymptotic variances. The bias of these two estimates also differs to higher order, and we … also show how bias, and asymptotic mean square error, can be reduced, across the class of estimates studied, by means of a …