Second thoughts on development accounting

Second thoughts on development accounting

We estimate the relative roles of factor inputs and productivity in explaining the level of economic development, which is measured as output per worker. For a large sample of countries, we show that alternative identifying productivity assumptions and alternative measures of human capital have a large impact on the relative weights of factor inputs and productivity in a decomposition of output...

Second Thoughts on Ayurveda

This article takes up a few "riddles" in the theory of Ayurveda and suggests explanations. It also looks into the Mahabhutas in pharmacology and discusses the real causes of diseases starts with. An interesting graphic representation of the six rasas, is also presented.

Second Thoughts on the Bootstrap

This brief review article is appearing in the issue of Statistical Science that marks the 25th anniversary of the bootstrap. It concerns some of the theoretical and methodological aspects of the bootstrap and how they might influence future work in statistics.

Second thoughts on the Jarman index.

Second thoughts on halothane in neurosurgery.

IT IS NOW more than two years since ~he representatives of Canadian universities reported before the Society their initial ~tudies with halothane, and in the interim the pharmacology and clinical use of halofllane have been extensiv01y investigated. Though the cardiovascular effects a halotliane and of chloroform are strikingly sfla~flar, there is as yet no,'concrete 6vidence that halothane is ...