The Oldest New Hampshire Practitioner.

Primaries and the New Hampshire Effect∗

Candidates for U.S. presidential elections are determined through sequential elections in single states, the primaries. We develop a model in which candidates can influence their winning probability in electoral districts by spending money on campaigning. The equilibrium replicates several stylized facts very well: Campaigning is very intensive in the first district. The outcome of the first el...

New Hampshire: the premarital testing debacle.

1 New Hampshire Acute Care Hospital Comparison

This analysis was performed by the New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) to compare short term general hospital costs incurred by commercial insurance carriers in New Hampshire (NH). The term " costs " is used to describe the amount due to the hospital for commercially insured patients, and includes the amounts paid by the health insurance carrier and the total patient liability (deductible...

Oldest writing in the New World.

A block with a hitherto unknown system of writing has been found in the Olmec heartland of Veracruz, Mexico. Stylistic and other dating of the block places it in the early first millennium before the common era, the oldest writing in the New World, with features that firmly assign this pivotal development to the Olmec civilization of Mesoamerica.

Arsenic Occurrence in New Hampshire Drinking Water

Arsenic concentrations were measured in 992 drinking water samples collected from New Hampshire households using online hydride generation ICP-MS. These randomly selected household water samples contain much less arsenic than those voluntarily submitted for analysis to the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES). Extrapolation of the voluntarily submitted sample set to all Ne...