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Hazardous Agrochemicals, Smoking, and Farmers’ Differences in Wage-Risk Tradeoffs

Nastis, Stefanos A.; Michailidis, Anastasios - 2010

This paper utilizes the theory of compensating differentials for job risks from the laboreconomics literature to evaluate farmers’ differences in wage-risk tradeoffs. In thecontext of job risks, the theory predicts that farmers who place a lower value on healthstatus are willing to work for...

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Changes in Food, Alcohol and Cigarettes Consumption during Transition: Evidence from Russia

Herzfeld, Thomas; Huffman, Sonya Kostova; Oskam, Arie J.; … - 2009

This paper examines the changes in nutritional behavior of Russian adults over the ten-year transition period, between 1994 and 2004. We present evidence on the impact of individual as well as regional characteristics on changes in fat, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on...

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Essays on Health Economics

Wang, Yang - 2009

their smoking choices. I find that US elderly tend to over-emphasize the importance of their genetic makeup but … underestimate the influence of their health-related choices, such as smoking, on their longevity. This finding can partially explain … effects of their genes and health-related choices on their longevity, then the average smoking rate for the age group analyzed …

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A framework for estimating risk

Kroon, Rodney Stephen - 2008

We consider the problem of model assessment by risk estimation. Variousapproaches to risk estimation are considered in a uni ed framework. This a discussion of various complexity dimensions and approaches to obtainingbounds on covering numbers is also presented.The second type of training sample...

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Determination of the optimal number of strata for bias reduction in propensity score matching.

Akers, Allen - 2010

Previous research implementing stratification on the propensity score has generally relied on using five strata, based on prior theoretical groundwork and minimal empirical evidence as to the suitability of quintiles to adequately reduce bias in all cases and across all sample sizes. This study...

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Scaling conditional tail probability and quantile estimators

Cotter, John - 2009

In terms of risk measurement, probability and quantile risk estimation have developed enormously in the past decade, from value-at-risk measures to coherent measures such as expected shortfall. These measures allow an investor to determine their risk profile accounting for losses (quantiles) at...

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Theoretical Results and Applications Related to Dimension Reduction

Chen, Jie - 2007

To overcome the curse of dimensionality, dimension reduction is important andnecessary for understanding the underlying phenomena in a variety of fields.Dimension reduction is the transformation of high-dimensional data into ameaningful representation in the low-dimensional space. It can be...

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Folded Variance Estimators for Stationary Time Series

Antonini, Claudia - 2005

This thesis is concerned with simulation output analysis. In particular, we are inter-ested in estimating the variance parameter of a steady-state output process. The estimationof the variance parameter has immediate applications in problems involving (i) the precisionof the sample mean as a...

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Accuracy bounds for normal-incidence acoustic structure estimation

Theriault, Kenneth B. - 1977

Determnation of the structure of a medium from normal-incidenceacoustic reflection data is a basic problem in fieldsas diverse as medical technology and the earth sciences; thisresearch examines the accuracy with which quantitative structureestimates can be made from noise-corrupted...

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A non-iterative alternative to ordinal log-linear models

Beh, Eric John; Davy, Pamela J. - University of Wollongong; University of Western Sydney; … - 2004

Log-linear modeling is a popular statistical tool for analysing a contingency table. This presentation focuses on an alternative approach to modeling ordinal categorical data. The technique, based on orthogonal polynomials, provides a much simpler method of model fitting than the conventional...

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