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Is There a Gradient in Life Span by Position in the Social Hierarchy?

Lavis, John N; McLeod, Christopher B; Mustard, Cameron A; … - Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis … - 2001

Objectives - To examine within an economically homogeneous group whether there is a gradient in life span by position … be no gradient in life span by position in the social hierarchy even after accounting for cohort and selection effects … the social hierarchy. Conclusions - The lack of a gradient in life span by position in the social hierarchy suggests the …

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The Structure of Chinese Urban Land Prices: Estimates from Benchmark Land Price Data

Wang, Rui - In: The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 39 (2009) 1, pp. 24-38

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About some Methodological Aspects of Budgetary Sustainability

Dinga, Emil - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics 3(498) (2006) 3(498), pp. 17-26

This paper is aimed to debate some conceptual and methodological issues concerning the designing and analyzing of the public budget. In the context, the issue of the necessary distinction between the target-objectives and the operational variables in the process of designing the public budget is...

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Jump-preserving surface reconstruction from noisy data

Qiu, Peihua - In: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 61 (2009) 3, pp. 715-751

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OPTIMIZATION BY USING EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS WITH GENETIC ACQUISITIONS

Mateescu, George Daniel - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting 2 (2005) 2, pp. 26-30

to the gradient of an objective function. …

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Equivalent formulations of the gradient

Zlobec, Sanjo - In: Journal of Global Optimization 50 (2011) 3, pp. 549-553

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RESEARCH REGARDING THE OPTIMIZATION OF THE REACTION CHAMBERS WITHIN THE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS

BICHIR, MARIUS-COSTIN; DIMOFTE, OANA - In: Romaqua 92 (2014) 2, pp. 26-32

achievement of optimum velocity gradient. …

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Heterogeneity, State Dependence and Health

Halliday, Timothy J - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2005

In this paper, we use longitudinal data on Self-Reported Health Status from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to estimate a model of the evolution of health over the life-cycle. The model allows for two sources of persistence in health: unobserved heterogeneity, which models an individual’s...

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The Impact of Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Income Shocks on Health Outcomes: Evidence from the PSID

Halliday, Timothy - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2006

In this paper, we investigate the impact of aggregate and idiosyncratic economic shocks on health using data on self-reported health status and mortality from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. First, we document a large correlation between poor macroeconomic conditions and mortality for...

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Does sex-selective abortion improve girls' well-being? Evidence from India

Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analía - 2010

The paper studies the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We use the ratio of male to female births in the year...

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