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Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession 2017 Annual Survey
(2018-01-04)
Presentation of results of the annual survey of economics departments conducted by the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. Allied Social Science Association meetings ...
Association of environmental tobacco smoke exposure in childhood with early emphysema in adulthood among nonsmokers: the MESA-lung study.
(2010)
Mechanical stress to alveolar walls may cause progressive damage after an early-life insult such as exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). This hypothesis was examined by using data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of ...
Statistical Challenges in Combining Information from Big and Small Data Sources
(2015-11-19)
Social Media, electronic health records, credit card transactional and administrative data, web scraping, and numerous other ways of collecting information have changed the landscape for those interested in addressing ...
Economists, Recessions, and Profits
(2010-03)
Mainstream economists were puzzled by the global depression (the so-called Great Recession) that started late in 2007. In the Unites States, after an almost unanimous consensus of the economic profession and the Republican ...
The Social Security Early Retirement Benefit as Safety Net
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2010-10)
In this paper we used the Health and Retirement Study to examine the health and economic status of those who collect Social Security retirement benefits prior to the full retirement age. We used a propensity score reweighting ...
Statistical evidence of falling profits as a cause of recession: A short note
(SAGE, 2012)
Data on 251 quarters of the U.S. economy show that recessions are preceded by declines
in profits. Profits stop growing and start falling four or five quarters before a recession. They strongly recover immediately after ...
Left ventricular mass and ventricular remodeling among Hispanic subgroups compared with non-Hispanic blacks and whites: MESA (Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis).
(2010-01-19)
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and left ventricular (LV) remodeling patterns within Hispanic subgroups compared with non-Hispanic whites in the ...
Occupational Learning, Financial Knowledge, and the Accumulation of Retirement Wealth
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2010-10)
This study explores the relationship between general human capital investment, financial
knowledge, occupational spillovers, and the accumulation of wealth in a primarily
descriptive manner. Drawing upon human capital ...