To assess the importance of unequal access to medical expertise and services, we estimate causal effects having a child who is doctor on parents' mortality health care use. We use data from parents almost 22,000 participants in admission lotteries school Netherlands. Our findings indicate that informal services not an important cause differences mortality. (JEL H51, I11, I12, I14, I18)

Glycosaminoglycans such as e.g. heparin, heparan sulphate and dermatan sulphate display a broad variety of biological activities. Unique, Well-defined domains in some glycosaminoglycans have been characterized that are responsible for the biological activity. For instance, a unique pentasaccharide domain in heparin could be identified which binds and activates the serine protease inhibitor (ser...

Low angle x-ray diffraction patterns were obtained from resting and activated frog sartorius muscles by means of a position-sensitive detector. Although the intensity ratio I10/I11 decreased many-fold upon activation, it was nearly the same during isometric and isotonic contraction. Thus, motion has a much smaller effect on the low order equatorial pattern than the transition from rest to activ...

We study the effect of privatizing Medicaid drug benefits on prices and utilization. Drug spending would decrease by 21.3 percent if private insurers administered all benefits. One-third is driven insurers’ ability to negotiate with pharmacies. The remaining two-thirds greater use lower cost drugs, such as generics, only realized in states that give flexibility design Privatization does not red...

We describe an optically pumped cesium-beam frequency standard under development for deployment on the GPS-III satellite constellation. The objective of the project is to demonstrate the feasibility of a space quulifikd optically pumped cesium-beam frequency standard exhibiting a short-term stability of cry (r < 6 x f-ln with lifetime and reliability comparable to that of the current GPS-IIF ce...

The heparin-enhanced antithrombin III/thrombin reaction was studied under a variety of conditions designed to determine the validity of kinetic models for the mechanism of action of heparin. The observed second order rate constant k& values for thrombin inhibition by antithrombin I11 were determined as a function of heparin concentration in the presence and absence of varying amounts of active ...

this paper aims to estimate a model of demand for health insurance and medical care in iran in the presence of the heterogeneous and latent health status of individual; moreover it tests the asymmetry of information in the health insurance industry of iran. our dataset consists of whole family budget survey of 2006. the parameters of model are estimated by g.m.m method and the model used in thi...

We propose a pseudo-market solution to resource allocation problems subject constraints. Our treatment of constraints is general: including bihierarchical due considerations diversity in school choice, or scheduling course allocation; and other forms needed model, for example, the market roommates, combinatorial assignment problems, knapsack Constraints give rise pecuniary externalities, which ...

Phenmetrazine (3-methyl-2-phenylmorpholine, compound I11 ; Preludin) is a member of a group of anorexic drugs based on amphetamine or 2-amino-1-phenylpropane (compound I). The metabolism of two of these drugs, amphetamine and methamphetamine, and of the related norephedrine (compound 11) has already been studied in this laboratory (Dring et al., 1970; Caldwell et al., 1972; Sinsheimer et al., 1...