Background This study sought to establish the preferences of people with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) about the best outcome measure for a health and fitness intervention randomised controlled trial (RCT). The results of this study were used to inform the choice of the trial primary and secondary outcome measure. Methods A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was used to assess people's preferences ...

OBJECTIVE This study presents estimates of the impact of changes in California tobacco control funding on healthcare expenditures for 2012-2016 under four funding scenarios. METHODS Smoking prevalence is projected using a cointegrated time series regression model. Smoking-attributable healthcare expenditures are estimated with econometric models that use a prevalence-based annual cost approac...

Hall, Robert Ernest, 1943– Forward-looking decision making : dynamic programming models applied to health, risk, employment, and financial stability / Robert E. Hall. p. cm. – (The Gorman lectures in economics) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-691-14242-5 (alk. paper) 1. Households–Decision making–Econometric models. 2. Families–Decision making–Econometric models. 3. De...

In this paper we study inference for a conditional model with a jump in the conditional density, where the location and size of the jump are described by regression lines. This interesting structure is shared by several structural econometric models. Two prominent examples are the standard auction model where density jumps from zero to a positive value, and the equilibrium job search model, whe...

In this paper the performance of four linear models of the exchange rate Spanish peseta/US dollar is compared with that of Artificial Neural Networks. The models are a random walk process and three different specifications based on the purchasing power parity (PPP) theory. The aim is to examine whether potentially highly nonlinear neural network models outperform traditional methods or give at ...

This article provides a relatively nontechnical discussion of previously published research on the use of econometric models in the study of the economic effects of social security. It illustrates the role of econometric model building by focusing on three major applications: forecasting, policy simulation, and hypothesis testing. A series of three macroeconomic examples serves to emphasize tha...

In this paper, I review a number of techniques which are based on the qualitative features of an econometric model (presence of a variable in a relationship .) The issues addressed span from the reconstruction of the theoretical structure behind the model speciication (which is oftentimes lost as the size of the model increases) to the possibility of reordering the equations aimed at achieving ...