Religion and Child Health This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development Supplements (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The primary focus is on the effect of religion on the reported overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed: whether th...

Analysis of Health and Longevity in Oldest-Old Population: A Health Capital Approach Using 2002 cross-sectional data and 1998, 2000, 2002 three waves of panel data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, we study health in oldest old population. We measure health using the Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and in term of mortality. Our results suggest that besides a...

In health care systems today, including those of Switzerland and the United States, participants do not necessarily see the big picture of lifetime health costs and quality of life, and in many systems consumers and providers lack the incentives to manage preventative and chronic care to minimize lifetime private and social health costs. Resource allocation problems induced by asymmetric inform...

Six complete genome sequences of Cydia pomonella granulovirus (CpGV) isolates from Mexico (CpGV-M and CpGV-M1), England (CpGV-E2), Iran (CpGV-I07 and CpGV-I12), and Canada (CpGV-S) were aligned and analyzed for genetic diversity and evolutionary processes. The selected CpGV isolates represented recently identified phylogenetic lineages of CpGV, namely, the genome groups A to E. The genomes rang...

JEL CLASSIFICATION C26, C99, D03, I18. PSYCINFO CLASSIFICATION 2360; 3920.

We sample (β, η, γ) using a (block) Gibbs sampler along with data augmentation for the missing responses (straightforward given the full data response is multivariate normal). We sample the full conditional for the parameters as follows. At iteration k0, 1. Sample Yimiss|(β, γ(k0−1), η(k0−1), yiobs) by data augmentation. Yimiss ∼ N(ximissβ+Σ (k0−1) i12 (Σ (k0−1) iobs ) (yiobs−xiobsβ),Σ (k0−1) i...

A series of 2,5-disubstituted-1,3,4-thiadiazoles were synthesized using Lawesson's reagent by an efficient approach under microwave irradiation in good yields. Their structures were characterized by MS, IR, (1)H NMR, (13)C NMR, and elemental analysis. Their in vitro and in vivo fungicidal activities revealed that the title compounds exhibited considerable activity against five selected fungi, e...