Estimating Barro misery index in democratic states with application in Albania: 2005 – 2014

Epidemiology of asphyxiation suicides in the United States, 2005–2014

BACKGROUND From 2005 to 2014, the asphyxiation suicide rate in the United States (U.S.) increased by 45.7% from 2.45 to 3.57 per 100,000 population. The primary purpose of this cross-sectional study was to describe decedent and incident characteristics of asphyxiation suicides in the U.S. from 2005 to 2014. The secondary purpose of this study was to explore whether any demographic characteristi...

Walking to Work: Trends in the United States, 2005–2014

I examined trends from 2005 through 2014 in walking to work compared with other modes of travel. For each year, I calculated the percentage of travel to work by private vehicle, public transportation, and walking and used distance decay functions to analyze the distribution of walking by distance. I found that the percentage of travel to work by walking remained stable, with a slight increase o...

SA's happiness-and misery-index.

Estimating Cross-Over Voting in the 2005 Jackson, Miss. Democratic Mayoral Primary via Ecological Inference

The adoption of open and “blanket” primary laws, particularly in the American South, in the wake of the civil rights movement has generally led to more equitable rates of voting and greater representation for blacks and other ethnic minorities. However, open primary laws have been criticized by political parties and their core supporters as unwarranted interference in the internal affairs of pa...

Current cigarette smoking among adults - United States, 2005-2014.

Tobacco smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, resulting in approximately 480,000 premature deaths and more than $300 billion in direct health care expenditures and productivity losses each year (1). To assess progress toward achieving the Healthy People 2020 objective of reducing the percentage of U.S. adults who smoke cigarettes to ≤12.0%,* CDC ass...