This paper examines how investments in health, through spending on preventive care, affect subsequent spending on medical care among the retired population. Augmenting a traditional dynamic consumption-savings model with two medical care goods, I estimate a structural life cycle model using data on single retired Americans from the Health and Retirement Study; I then conduct policy counterfactu...

The present investigation relating to 662 boys and 620 girls born in Oxford between 1944 and 1948 was designed to observe the relation of sex and birth weight to growth during the first year of postnatal life. A majority of the babies (702) came from one private and two municipal welfare clinics in the city; the remainder (580) attended the Institute of Social Medicine. The latter are also enro...

Answer the question. 3) 100,000 randomly selected adults were asked whether they drink at least 48 oz of water each day and only 45% said yes. Identify the sample and population. A) Sample: all adults ; population: the 100,000 selected adults B) Sample: the 45% of adults who drink at least 48 oz of water; population: all adults C) Sample: the 100,000 selected adults; population: all adults D) S...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether people pour different amounts into short, wide glasses than into tall, slender ones. DESIGN College students practised pouring alcohol into a standard glass before pouring into larger glasses; bartenders poured alcohol for four mixed drinks either with no instructions or after being told to take their time. SETTING University town and large city, United States...

In an attempt to fight the obesity epidemic, an unprecedented policy banning the sale of sugary beverages in containers over 16 ounces in selected public venues was proposed the city of New York. This policy is not without opposition from different sectors including the sugary beverage industry and civil organizations that portray it as a violation of consumers’ rights to choose. We explore the...

In this paper, we propose a new method for comparing scanpaths in a bottom-up approach, and a test of the scanpath theory. To do so, we conducted a laboratory experiment in which 113 participants were invited to accomplish a set of tasks on two different websites. For each site, they had to perform two tasks that had to be repeated ounce. The data were analyzed using a procedure similar to the ...

Roasting is among the most common methods of nut processing causing physical and chemical changes and ultimately increasing overall acceptance of the product. In this research, the effects of temperature (90, 120 ,and 150°C), time (20, 35 ,and 50 min) ,and roasting air velocity (0.5, 1.5 ,and 2.5 m/s) on gravimetrical properties of pistachio nuts and kernels including unit mass, true density, o...