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Chronic job insecurity among automobile workers: Effects on job satisfaction and health
(Elsevier, 1994-05)
Work conditions characterized by uncertainty and ambiguity are potential stressors for employees. One such stressor is job insecurity. This longitudinal study of 207 automobile manufacturing workers indicates that chronic ...
Measurement Error in Prenatal Care Utilization: Evidence of Attenuation Bias in the Estimation of Impact on Birth Weight
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-03)
Objective: Errors in the measurement of the timing and number of prenatal care visits may produce downward bias in estimates of the impact of prenatal care use on birth outcomes. This paper examines the extent of attenuation ...
Modeling and analyzing HIV transmission: the effect of contact patterns
(Elsevier, 1988-12)
A compartmental model is presented for the spread of HIV in a homosexual population divided into subgroups by degree of sexual activity. The model includes constant recruitment rates for the susceptibles in the subgroups. ...
Family and neighborhood welfare dependency and sons' labor supply
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-09)
This article tests four models of how parental and childhood welfare use affects sons' labor supply: the correlated disadvantages model, Wilson's structural-environmental model, Mead's welfare culture model, and Murray's ...
Factors facilitating adjustment to unemployment: Implications for intervention
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1991-08)
The spread and persistence of infectious diseases in structured populations
(Elsevier, 1988)
A basic assumption of many epidemic models is that populations are composed of a homogeneous group of randomly mixing individuals. This is not a realistic assumption. Most actual populations are divided into a number of ...
Crowd-Out in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): Incidence, Enrollee Characteristics and Experiences, and Potential Impact on New York's SCHIP
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2008-02)
The extent to which the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) crowds our private insurance is poorly understood. Objective . To assess the incidence of crowd-out and enrollee characteristics associated with ...
The stochastic SI model with recruitment and deaths I. comparison with the closed SIS model
(Elsevier, 1993)
We compare the stochastic and deterministic version of an SI model with recuitment, background deaths, and deaths due to the disease. For the stochastic version, analysis of the mean number of susceptibles, m, and infecteds, ...
Upstream Solutions: Does the Supplemental Security Income Program Reduce Disability in the Elderly?
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2008-03)
Job dissatisfaction as a possible risk factor in coronary heart disease
(Elsevier, 1971-05)