that reflects current net nutrition. This study uses a difference-in-decompositions framework to analyze how women's BMIs … relative to men associated with changing cumulative net nutrition. The primary source of female-male within-group variation was …

the physical environment. This study evaluates 19th century macro-level nutrition and diseases associated with US BMI … effect on net-nutrition than cholera. After controlling for nutrition and disease, black BMIs and weights were greater than …

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children’s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …

that supranational competition can have very different consequences on the rent seeking behaviour of firms, depending on …

outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school … performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and … academic achievement is found. In addition to raising achievement, higher levels of competition are not associated with a …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … to the steady state. While fiercer competition (lower transportation costs or less sluggish demand) leads to higher … quality in both solutions, the quality response to increased competition is weaker when players use feedback strategies. …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …

This paper investigates how group membership and competition among trustors interact with trust and trustworthiness in … competition leads to a decrease in trustworthiness, especially among partners. We argue that once competition comes into play …