The Earned Income Tax Credit subsidizes earnings from both the wage sector and the self-employment sector. This paper uses tax return data to investigate how the EITC affects the reporting of self-employment income to the IRS. A difference-in-difference strategy is used, considering three expansions in the EITC and comparing changes across filers with and without children. The expansions are pr...

1. Jauddi A, Fontana P, Mueller XM. Imaging of the abdominal aorta during examination of patients referres for transtoracic echocardiography. Schweiz Med Wochenschr. 1999;129:71-6. 2. Schwartz KV, Rashkow AM, Akella MS. Detection of abdominal aortic aneuriysm during routine echocardiography. Echocardiography. 1996;13:71-3. 3. Eisenberg MJ, Geraci SJ, Schiller NB. Screening for abdominal aortic ...

pharmaceutical products. See, e.g., Wesley Cohen et al., Protecting Their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not), NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, Working Paper No. 7552, 2000 (discussing the importance of patents relative to other mechanisms of appropriation across various industries and concluding that patents are particularly imp...

The Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences, "Frontiers in Bioinformatics: Unsolved Problems and Challenges," organized by David Eisenberg, Russ Altman, and myself, was held October 15-17, 2004, to provide a forum for discussing concepts and methods in bioinformatics serving the biological and medical sciences. The deluge of genomic and proteomic data in the last two de...

Dr. Eisenberg's paper presents a vision of the medical staff from the point of view of a practicing physician and medical staff leader. Dr. Eisenberg focuses on ways the medical staff, as an independent entity, may use the collective clinical knowledge and experience of its physician membership to enhance quality. This paper also presents Dr. Eisenberg's unique insights regarding the interplay ...

Congenital uterine abnormalities occur as a result of partial or complete failure of Mullerian duct fusion probably about the fifth or sixth week of fetal life. Maternal and/or placental factors have been implicated. There are a few reports of a double uterus occurring in sisters and their mothers (Polishuk & Ron, 1974; Prucha, 1983) which suggest a dominant autosomal gene as a possible genetic...

There is significant tension between the value of the individual and society within clinical research. While various deontological theories have argued for the necessity of informed consent, these theories have been repudiated by consequentialism. It is my position that neither deontological nor consequentialist theories are entirely erroneous. While investigating both sides, I will highlight t...