The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to compare the self-reported prevalence of chronic conditions when respondents are simply asked to list all chronic conditions (recall method) versus when respondents are asked explicitly about the presence of specific conditions (recognition...

This chapter studies the effect of short- and long-run shocks on the Mexican GDP. The authors fit a structural VAR model using the Blanchard and Quah decomposition for a bivariate model to analyze the impact of supply and demand shocks on GDP and prices. The svar command allows the estimation of...

The P-Star approach of modeling inflation has been widely tested for the United States and other developed countries. However, the robustness of the P-Star model for developing countries has received less attention among the researchers. The purpose of this study is to test the applicability of...