Disclosure of private medical information allows insurance companies to better predict medical expenditures. The premiums the companies charge the insured employees reflect these expenditures. This paper studies incentives of employees to disclose their medical information. I find that healthier employees prefer to disclose medical information that results in a disclosure plan having a lower pr...

Using a difference-in-differences framework, we estimate the impact of Ramadan on educational outcomes of Muslim students living in a non-Muslim country. For identification we exploit the fact that the number of Ramadan weeks during the course that we study, varies from year to year, ranging from zero to four. Our main finding is that Ramadan observance has a negative impact on performance; one...

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on inference from non-experimental data. In contrast, this paper exploits a procompetitive policy reform to provide estimates of the impact of competition on hospital outcomes. The English government introduced a policy in 2006 to promote competition between hospitals. Using this pol...

Standard economic theory assumes individuals make decisions over a set of risky domains according to their own risk preferences which are stable across these decision contexts. The validity of this assumption of context-invariant risk preference has led to debate in the literature. We exploit latent class analysis to identify conditional on predicted and realized risk how heterogeneity in risk ...

Human plasma-derived protein concentrates intended for clinical use must be treated for viral inactivation to ensure patient safety. This study explored the use of liquid iodine for inactivation of several lipidand nonlipid-enveloped viruses in an antithrombin 111 (AT-Ill) concentrate. Iodine at levels of 0.01% to 0.02% caused between 43% and 94% loss of AT-Ill activity, as well as degradation ...

novel and spontaneous process, giving quantitative change of genotype at A mitosis in Aspergillus nidulans, was described by BAINBRIDGE and ROPER (1966). Segregants carrying a segment of linkage group 111 in duplicate were derived from crosses of strains free of translocations to strains with an apparently non-reciprocal III-VI11 translocation. These duplication strains had reduced linear growt...

Residues 89-100 of troponin C (C8s-loo) and 96-116 of troponin 1 (196-116) interact with each other in the troponin complex (Dalgarno, D. C., Grand, R. J. A., Levine, B. A. Moir, A,, J. G., Scott, G. M. M., and Perry, S . V. (1982) FEBS Lett. 150, 54-58) and are necessary for the Caa+ sensitivity of actomyosin ATPase (Syska, H., Wilkinson, J. M., Grand, R. J. A., and Perry, S. V. (1976) Bioclre...

Septic shock and multiple organ failure may be associated with coagulation activation, disseminated fibrin formation, and consumption of coagulation inhibitors such as antithrombin 111. We have evaluated prospectively coagulation measurements in patients with severe chemotherapy-induced neutropenia. This group of patients was chosen because of their high risk of developing severe septic cornpli...