The results highlight the importance of robustness tests in identifying predictors or potential determinants of population health, and cast doubts on the findings of previous studies that fail to do so. </AbstractSection> Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

In this article we model production technology in a state-contingent framework. Our model analyzes production under uncertainty without regard to the nature of producer risk preferences. In our model producers? risk preferences are captured by the risk-neutral probabilities they assign to the...

Interpretation in nonlinear regression models that include sets of dummy variables representing categories of underlying categorical variables is not straightforward. Partial effects giving the differences between each category and the reference category are routinely computed in the empirical...

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In this paper we model production technology in a state-contingent framework. Our model analyzes production under uncertainty without being explicit about the nature of producer risk preferences. In our model producers’ risk preferences are captured by the risk-neutral probabilities they...

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