The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether 1-year total healthcare expenditures differed between patients who initiated therapy on a tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) or a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) after controlling for initial antidepressant selection and antidepressant...

Many research designs and statistical methodologies will be used to conduct comparative effectiveness research (CER). In particular, it is almost certainly the case that the demand for real-world evidence will drive increased demand for CER analyses of observational data. Although a great deal...

For nearly 3 decades regional economists have debated about the direction of the relationship between interregional migration and regional employment growth. This study hypothesizes that migration and manufacturing employment growth are jointly determined but that the effects of employment...

The celebrated economist Zvi Griliches’s entire career can be viewed as an attempt to advance the cause of accuracy in economic measurement. His interest in the causes and consequences of technical progress led to his pathbreaking work on price hedonics, now the principal analytical technique...

This volume contains papers presented at a conference in May 1988 in Washington, D.C., commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (CRIW). The call for papers emphasized assessments of broad topics in economic measurement, both...