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Bringing features of human dialogue to web surveys
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-03)
When web survey respondents self-administer a questionnaire, what they are doing is in many ways similar to what goes on in human–human interviews. The studies presented here demonstrate that enabling web survey respondents ...
Are Risk and Protective Factors for Substance Use Consistent Across Historical Time?: National Data From the High School Classes of 1976 Through 1997
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Society for Prevention Research ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-03)
Researchers have seldom examined whether risk and protective factors are consistently linked to substance use across historical time. Using nationally representative data collected from 22 consecutive cohorts of high school ...
Measuring the abruptness of patchy ecotones – A simulation-based comparison of landscape pattern statistics
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-09)
The use of statistics of landscape pattern to infer ecological process at ecotones requires knowledge of the specific sensitivities of statistics to ecotone characteristics. In this study, sets of patch-based and boundary-based ...
International Health Economics Association Seventeenth Annual Kenneth J. Arrow Award in Health Economics
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-09)
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Take-Up of Medicare Part D and the SSA Subsidy: Early Results from the Health and Retirement Study
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2007-10)
We analyze newly available data from the Health and Retirement Study on senior citizens’ take-up of Medicare Part D and the associated SSA Low-Income Subsidy. We
find that economic factors – specifically, demand for ...
Older-age parents and the AIDS epidemic in Thailand: Changing impacts in the era of Anti-Retroviral Therapy
(United Nations ESCAP, 2009)
Severity, timing, and structure of disability
(Birkhäuser-Verlag; Birkhäuser-Verlag Basel ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-04)
Objectives: Severity and timing are key aspects of disability experience for individuals. They also generate a population’s disability structure (prevalence, counts, patterns). We study links among severity, duration, and ...
Union Formation Among Men in the U.S.: Does Having Prior Children Matter?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003-02)
Neighborhood Social Change and Perceptions of Environmental Degradation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-11)
This paper investigates how changes in neighborhood facilities—new schools, health posts, bus services, mills, dairies, agricultural cooperatives, and other facilities—influence perceptions of environmental degradation. ...