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1by Emily Burger Kine Pedersen Eline Aas Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (2019)“...The objective of medical screening is to prevent future disease (secondary prevention) or to improve prognosis by detecting the disease at an earlier stage...”
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2by Ingela Alger Donald Cox Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (22.11.2019)“...Which parent can be expected to be more altruistic toward their child, the mother or father? All else equal, can we expect older generation members to be more...”
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3by Giovanni Ricco Silvia Miranda-Agrippino Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (01.04.2019)“...Bayesian vector autoregressions (BVARs) are standard multivariate autoregressive models routinely used in empirical macroeconomics and finance for structural...”
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4by Lisa Oberlander Fabrice Etilé Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (01.01.2019)“...In the last several decades obesity rates have risen significantly. In 2014, 10.8% and 14.9% of the world’s men and women, respectively, were obese as compared...”
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6by Jacques-François Thisse Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (01.01.2019)“...Despite the drop in transport and commuting costs since the mid-19th century, sizable and lasting differences across locations at very different spatial scales...”
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7by Michael P. Clements Ana Beatriz Galvão Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (01.01.2019)“...At a given point in time, a forecaster will have access to data on macroeconomic variables that have been subject to different numbers of rounds of revisions,...”
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8by Klarita Gërxhani Johanna Gereke Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (01.01.2019)“...Experimental economics has moved beyond the traditional focus on market mechanisms and the “invisible hand” by applying sociological and socio-psychological...”
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10by Brigitte Dormont Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (01.01.2019)“...Most developed nations provide generous coverage of care services, using either a tax financed healthcare system or social health insurance. Such systems...”
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11by Fabrice Etilé Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (01.01.2019)“...The rise in obesity and other food-related chronic diseases has prompted public-health officials of local communities, national governments, and international...”
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12by Katharina Hauck Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (30.08.2018)“...Economics can make immensely valuable contributions to our understanding of infectious disease transmission and the design of effective policy responses. The...”
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13by Galama, Titus Johannes Aiana Lleras-Muney, Aiana van Kippersluis, Hans Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (02.06.2018)“...Education is strongly associated with better health and longer lives. However, the extent to which education causes health and longevity is widely debated. We...”
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14by Apouey, Bénédicte H Picone, Gabriel Wilde, Joshua Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (01.06.2018)“...Malaria is a potentially life-threatening disease transmitted through the bites of female anopheline mosquitos infected with protozoan parasites. Malaria...”
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15by Apouey, Bénédicte H Picone, Gabriel Wilde, Joshua Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (01.06.2018)“...Malaria is a potentially life-threatening disease transmitted through the bites of female anopheline mosquitos infected with protozoan parasites. Malaria...”
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16by Alfred Duncan Charles Nolan Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (01.04.2018)“...In recent decades, macroeconomic researchers have looked to incorporate financial intermediaries explicitly into business-cycle models. These modeling...”
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17by Joanna Coast Manuela De Allegri Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (01.03.2018)“...Qualitative methods are being used increasingly by health economists, but most health economists are not trained in these methods and may need to develop...”
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18by Okunade, Albert A Osmani, Ahmad Reshad Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (2018)“...In the last half century, the different healthcare systems of the world countries have undergone fundamental transformations in the structural designs,...”
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19by Ahmad Reshad Osmani Albert A. Okunade Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (01.01.2018)“...Healthcare cost encompasses expenditures on the totality of scarce resources (implicit and explicit) given up (or allocated) to produce healthcare goods (e.g.,...”
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20by Timo Teräsvirta Published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (02.10.2017)“...Many nonlinear time series models have been around for a long time and have originated outside of time series econometrics. The stochastic models popular...”