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health outcomes conditional on observed patient covariates. Let y be an outcome of interest and let (x=k, w=j) be observed … patient covariates. Suppose a clinician wants to choose a care option that maximizes a patient's expected utility conditional …
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According to the Deutsche Rentenversicherung (German statutory pension insurance scheme), since the mid-1990s, the …
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This paper aims to understand students' health literacy condition at a university in Jiangsu Province by determining … possible influencing factors, and to give suggestions to improve health literacy education. A total of 165 first, second, and … third-year students completed the Mandarin Health Literacy Scale (MHLS) questionnaire. Statistical analyses, including …
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This article investigates the effects of physical activity on earnings in the Brazilian labor market, analyzing workers aged between 30 and 50 years. To that end, quantile regression was applied to analyze microdata from the 2008 National Household Sample Survey (PNAD). The results showed that...
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In 2013, 7.32% of the Brazilian population, or almost 15 million people, declared that they had some disability. Based on empirical evidence, this study sought to answer the following three questions: 1) Are men with disabilities paid less in the Brazilian labor market? 2) If so, is this...
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perception of the social environment is crucial for their well-being and health. Objectives: This paper aims to evaluate the …, subjective health, the use of digital technology devices, and the level of occupancy with school obligations. Methods … school obligations and life satisfaction or subjective health, while for the independent variable, time spent in front of …
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and ambiguity aversion. This is modeled as a random set of beliefs in the maxmin expected utility model of Gilboa and …We introduce a model of random ambiguity aversion. Choice is stochastic due to unobserved shocks to both information … Schmeidler (1989). We characterize the model and show that the distribution of ambiguity aversion can be uniquely identified …
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The existence of ambiguity presents a challenge to decision-makers as it eliminates the ability to apply standard …, ambiguity arises in most strategically important decisions in some form because of the genuine limits on the decision … problems as strategic decision-making under ambiguity where choices over resource investments must be made in competitive …
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Research on collective provision of private goods has focused on distributional considerations. This paper studies a class of problems of decision under uncertainty in which an efficiency argument for collective choice emerges from the mathematics of aggregating individual payoffs. Consider...
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In this paper, we establish an axiomatically founded generalized recursive smooth ambiguity model that allows for a … separation among intertemporal substitution, risk aversion, and ambiguity aversion. We axiomatize this model using two approaches … Seo (2009). We characterize risk attitude and ambiguity attitude within these two approaches. We then discuss our model …
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