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Welfare usage in the U.S.: does immigrant birthplace and immigration status matter?
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - 2009
The study of welfare participation in the U.S. prior to the 1996 welfare reform act and even afterward has focused on …, there is no study yet that tests for difference in welfare usage among immigrant groups and immigrant status. We do not … expect welfare usage to differ among immigrant groups if we control for the factors that should predict welfare usage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269552
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The Big Picture of Lives Saved by Abortion on Demand: User Pays Applied to Pro-Life Advocates
Pope, Robin - 2009
Pro-life advocates focus on a single entity, the foetus. Pro-choice advocates focus on another single entity, the pregnant mother. There should also be a third focus, on all people already born – on how a new entrant on average damages (or enhances) the whole community. Communal accounts are...
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The big picture of lives saved by abortion on demand : user pays applied to pro-life advocates
Pope, Robin - 2009
Pro-life advocates focus on a single entity, the foetus. Pro-choice advocates focus on another single entity, the pregnant mother. There should also be a third focus, on all people already born on how a new entrant on average damages (or enhances) the whole community. Communal accounts are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003867210
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Economic vs. epidemiological approaches to measuring the human capital impacts of infectious disease elimination
Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alexander D.; … - 2022
A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275399
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Confounding and Process-Model Fit in Research on Income Inequality and Population Health: A Rejoinder to Zimmerman and Glymour.
Clarkwest, Andrew - Mathematica Policy Research - 2008
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Neo-Materialist Theory and the Temporal Relationship Between Income Inequality and Longevity Change.
Clarkwest, Andrew - Mathematica Policy Research - 2008
The author challenges prior fixed effects analyses of the relationship between income inequality and population health. He argues that the temporal relationships are likely to be complex and that fixed effects approaches, though important for addressing confounding, are poorly equipped to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010924194
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NeoMaterialist Theory and the Temporal Relationship Between Income Inequality and Longevity Change
Clarkwest, Andrew - Mathematica Policy Research - 2008
The author challenges prior fixed effects analyses of the relationship between income inequality and population health. He argues that the temporal relationships are likely to be complex and that fixed effects approaches, though important for addressing confounding, are poorly equipped to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011101151
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Secondhand Effects of Student Alcohol Use Reported by Neighbors of Colleges: The Role of Alcohol Outlets
Wechsler, Henry; Lee, Jae Eun; Hall, John; Wagenaar, … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2002
This is a study of the secondhand effects of student alcohol use experienced by residents of neighborhoods near college campuses. We examined the relationship of a college's level of binge drinking and the number of alcohol outlets in the immediate area, to lowered quality of neighborhood life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011101565
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Understanding a Collaborative Effort to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: Contributions form Social Network Analysis
Gold, Marsha; Doreian, Patrick; Taylor, Erin Fries - Mathematica Policy Research - 2008
Quality improvement collaboratives have become a common strategy for improving health care. This paper uses social network analysis to study the relationships among organizations participating in a large scale public–private collaboration among major health plans to reduce racial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167145
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Imbedding dynamic responses with imperfect information into static portraits of the regional impact of climate change
Yohe, G.W. - 2008
It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their attention to considerations of what would happen to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435515