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Adding Biomeasures Relating to Fatness and Obesity to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
(2009)The pace of research on the causes and consequences of obesity has increased dramatically since the late 1990s. However, a great chasm exists between the high-quality measurements of fatness used in the medical literature ... -
Adding Biomeasures Relating to Fatness and Obesity to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
(2009)The pace of research on the causes and consequences of obesity has increased dramatically since the late 1990s. However, a great chasm exists between the high-quality measurements of fatness used in the medical literature ... -
An Analysis of Life-Course Smoking Behavior in China
(2009)With a total population of more than 1.3 billion people where more than 31% of adults smoke, China has become the world’s largest producer and consumer of cigarettes. We adopt a life-course perspective to study the ... -
An Analysis of Life-Course Smoking Behavior in China
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2009)With a total population of more than 1.3 billion people where more than 31% of adults smoke, China has become the world’s largest producer and consumer of cigarettes. We adopt a life-course perspective to study the ... -
Analyzing the Role for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency
(2009)In the debate over the proposed establishment of a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, much attention has been given to discussion of whether consumers are irrational or incompetent and therefore need paternalistic ... -
Developing a conceptual framework for an evaluation system for the NIAID HIV/AIDS clinical trials networks
(2009)Globally, health research organizations are called upon to re-examine their policies and practices to more efficiently and effectively address current scientific and social needs, as well as increasing public demands for ... -
Do State Cost Control Policies Reduce Medicaid Prescription Drug Spending?
(2009)We present the first systematic analysis of state policies limiting prescription drug access under Medicaid during 1990–2004, documenting their impact on states’Medicaid prescription spending growth.We see substantial ... -
Do State Cost Control Policies Reduce Medicaid Prescription Drug Spending?
(2009)We present the first systematic analysis of state policies limiting prescription drug access under Medicaid during 1990–2004, documenting their impact on states’Medicaid prescription spending growth.We see substantial ... -
The Earnings of University Faculty in Health Administration: What Characteristics Influence Pay?
(2009)We present data from a February 2009 survey of health administration faculty members employed in programs recognized by the Association of University Programs of Health Administration or are U.S.-based academic members of ... -
Education Differences in Intended and Unintended Fertility
(2009)Using a hazards framework and panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979-2004), we analyze the fertility patterns of a recent cohort of white and black women in the United States. We examine how ... -
The Effect of Teachers' Unions on Education Production: Evidence from Union Election Certifications in Three Midwestern States
(2009)Using a unique data set on teachers’ union election certifications from Iowa, Indiana, and Minnesota, I estimate the effect of teachers’ unions on school district resources and on student educational attainment. My ... -
The Emergence and Potential Consequences of First Party Insurance Bad Faith Liability
(2009)This article discusses the approaches to first-party insurance bad-faith law that have been taken by the states, using legal and economic reasoning to illuminate the potential benefits and costs of different approaches. ... -
Evaluation Policy and Evaluation Practice
(2009)Three issues for evaluation policy and practice are described: evaluation policy dimensions, evaluation policy instruments, and the political and economic environment for evaluation policy. Selected future directions are ... -
Evaluation Policy and Evaluation Practice
(Wiley Periodicals Inc., 2009)Evaluation policy is of considerable importance, especially in relation to the limited amount of attention it receives as a general topic in the mainstream evaluation literature. Evaluation policies matter for several ... -
Evaluation Policy and Evaluation Practice: Where Do We Go From Here?
(Wiley Periodicals Inc., 2009)The author develops the basic idea of evaluation policy, describes a practical model for development and revision of evaluation policies (including a taxonomy, structure, and set of principles), and suggests critical ... -
An examination of theory and promising practice for achieving permanency for teens before they age out of foster care
(Elsevier, 2009-10)In this paper research is presented that examines the efficacy of Independent Living (IL) services in preparing foster youth to live “independently”, and calls into question the appropriateness of an independence” goal for ... -
Family Man in the Other America: New Opportunities, Motivations, and Supports for Paternal Caregiving
(2009)This analysis draws on longitudinal, qualitative interviews with disadvantaged mothers and fathers who participated in the Fragile Families Study (a U.S. birth cohort study) to examine how issues related to men’s employment, ...
