rain and analyze data on more than 400 ballot propositions in Switzerland for the years 1958 to 2014 to address this … rain decreases the share of votes for a change. Our robustness checks suggest that changes in the composition of the … electorate or changes in information acquisition do not drive this result. In addition, we provide evidence that rain might have …

In New York City (NYC), it has been a common complaint that it is difficult to find a taxi in the rain. Using all Uber …

Rain affects electoral turnout both through a direct effect on the cost of voting and by changing the opportunity cost …. In a panel of Norwegian municipalities I find that rain on Election Day increases turnout. As turnout affects electoral … outcomes, rain provides an exogeneous source of variation, and hence an instrument, for the party composition of the municipal …

deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …

rain and analyze data on more than 870,000 municipal vote outcomes in Switzerland to address this question. The empirical … tests are based on administrative ballot outcomes and individual postvote survey data. We find that rain decreases the share … composition of the electorate and changes in information acquisition. In addition, we provide evidence that rain might have …

cardiovascular (CVD) risk factors among adults with diabetes. Methods: The analysis samples include adults aged 20 and over from … NHANES III, 1988- 1994 and NHANES 1999-2008 who self-report having diabetes (n =1,107, NHANES III; n = 1,933, NHANES 1999 …

Background: Diabetes Mellitus Type II (T2DM) is a major and growing medical, social and economic burden in the East … some 2 million US$ to cover all of diabetes treatment. 57 % of this amount would have to be spent for OAD-therapy, the rest …-effective. Discussion: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is a major public health challenge in Cambodia. The simulations clearly indicate that …

estimate the impacts of the National Health Screening Program in Korea for diabetes, obesity, and hyperlipidemia. In this … evidence for increased diabetes medication and weight loss around the high risk threshold for diabetes, where information is …

This study explores the impact of diabetes on employment in Mexico using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey … (MxFLS) (2005), taking into account the possible endogeneity of diabetes via an instrumental variable estimation strategy. We … find that diabetes significantly decreases employment probabilities for men by about 9.9 percent (p<0.01) and somewhat less …