When “freedom” kills

When Food Kills

F or the estimated 800 million people, living largely in developing countries, without enough food to eat, the main food risk is starvation. But if you ask, 'When does food actually kill?' in a country such as the United Kingdom, 'Not that often' is the short reply you would give after reading Hugh Pennington's book When Food Kills: BSE, E. coli, and Disaster Science. The two food-borne disease...

When curiosity kills the profits: An experimental examination

Economic theory predicts that in a first-price auction with equal and observable valuations, bidders earn zero profits. Theory also predicts that if valuations are not common knowledge, then since it is weakly dominated to bid your valuation, bidders will bid less and earn positive profits. Hence, rational players in an auction game should prefer less public information. We are perhaps more use...

When religious freedom clashes with access to care.

n engl j med 371;7 nejm.org august 14, 2014 596 penetrant genetic mutations that predictably result in disease, clinical sequencing will enable individual screening, monitoring, prevention, and treatment of medically actionable conditions. On the other hand, there will be a large proportion of potentially deleterious variants associated with medium-sized odds ratios for disease and variable phe...

When Bias Kills the Variance: Central Limit Theorems for DEA and FDH Efficiency Scores

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and free disposal hull (FDH) estimators are widely used to estimate efficiencies of production units. In applications, both efficiency scores for individual units as well as average efficiency scores are typically reported. While several bootstrap methods have been developed for making inference about the efficiencies of individual units, until now no methods hav...

When Bias Kills the Variance: Central Limit Theorems for DEA and FDH Efficiency Scores: Technical Appendix