Indebted and Overweight: The Link Between Weight and Household Debt There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship between debt and bodyweight could run in either direction or both could be caused by unobserved common factors. We use OLS and Propensity Score Matching to ascertain if household debt (measured by credit card ind...

The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health The world has enjoyed huge improvements in population health during the last half century. But major health problems persist, particularly in tropical countries, which are still struggling with infectious diseases while increasingly having to deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic arguments for public spending on health have...

اثرات ویرانگر بلایای طبیعی، اهمیت لجستیک و برنامه‌ریزی منابع انسانی را در مراحل قبل بعد از بحران نشان می‌دهد. هنگام بروز به ‌منظور امدادرسانی سریع، شبکه سلسله ‌مراتبی سلامت که شامل درمانگاه‌ها بیمارستان‌ها است، فعال می‌شود. این پژوهش با استفاده مدل ریاضی مختلط عدد صحیح درنظرگرفتن موقعیت فعلی درمانگاه‌ها، مکان‌های بهینه‌ای عنوان «مراکز درمان موقت» تعیین نحوه تخصیص بهینه مصدومان ناحیه‌های شهری مر...

امروزه در مبحث محاسبات رآکتورهای هسته‌ای مثل فرسایش و مدیریت سوخت، تحلیل گذرا بازسازی توان میله‌های به دنبال روش‌هایی جهت استفاده کدهای هستند که علاوه بر دقت قابل‌قبول از هزینه زمان بهینه‌ای برخوردار باشند. این پژوهش با گسسته‌سازی معادله پخش نوترون روش نودال بسط شار جریان ‌متوسط مرتبه بالا نشان داده می‌شود روش‌ بهینه قابل‌قبولی بهره می‌برد. مستقیم الحاقی نوترون، برای هندسه مربعی دوبعدی دو گروه ...

This paper is a revised version of part of a previous report (Give'on, 1962) which was prepared for the U. S. Office of Naval Rsearch, Information Systems Branch, under contract No. 62558-2214, at the Applied Logic Branch of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel (February 1962). This revision was done for the U. S. Office of Naval Research, Information Systems Branch, under contract No. No...

Using administrative records from the Social Security Administration this article explores the relationship between surname frequency and lifespan for over 19 million people born in 1910-19 and deceased by 2011—which represent over 80% of the total population born in 191019. People with more frequent surnames had shorter average and median lifespans. Differences in average lifespan between the ...

This paper presents new evidence that immigrants have better health than natives upon arrival to their destination. It analyzes a very interesting episode in international migration, namely the exodus of Ecuadorians in the aftermath of the economic collapse in the late 1990s. More than 600,000 Ecuadorians from 1999 to 2005 left their homeland, most relocating in Spain. Using information from th...