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Is Education a Safety Rope? A Longitudinal Study of Inter-generational Consequences of Temporal Shocks on Mexican Families
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-08)This paper studies long term implications of temporary macroeconomic shocks with the aim to identify welfare effects to certain groups of the society. We focused on the impact to education attainment given its relevance ... -
Is education causally related to better health? A twin fixed-effect study in the USA
(Oxford University Press, 2009)Background: More years of schooling is generally associated with better health. However, this association may be confounded by unobserved common prior causes such as inherited ability, personality such as patience, or early ... -
Is Europe Going Too Far?
(Elsevier, 1999)This paper examines the process of European political integration. We start with a political-economy model of monetary policy, illustrating a general principle: economic integration requires setting up European institutions ... -
Is exposure to e-cigarette communication associated with perceived harms of e-cigarette secondhand vapour? Results from a national survey of US adults
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)Objectives: E-cigarettes are frequently advertised and portrayed in the media as less harmful compared with regular cigarettes. Earlier surveys reported public perceptions of harms to people using e-cigarettes; however, ... -
Is Food Insecurity Associated with HIV Risk? Cross-Sectional Evidence from Sexually Active Women in Brazil
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Background: Understanding how food insecurity among women gives rise to differential patterning in HIV risks is critical for policy and programming in resource-limited settings. This is particularly the case in Brazil, ... -
Is Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease a Result of Multiple Gait Impairments? Implications for Treatment
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)Several gait impairments have been associated with freezing of gait (FOG) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). These include deteriorations in rhythm control, gait symmetry, bilateral coordination of gait, dynamic ... -
Is Gliese 581d habitable? Some constraints from radiative-convective climate modeling
(EDP Sciences, 2010)The recently discovered exoplanet Gl 581d is extremely close to the outer edge of its system’s habitable zone, which has led to much speculation on its possible climate. We have performed a range of simulations to assess ... -
Is Grameen Lending Efficient?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2001-12)Many believe that a key innovation by the Grameen Bank is to encourage its borrowers to help each other in hard times. To analyze this we study a novel mechanism design problem where borrowers share information about each ... -
Is grand-parental smoking associated with adolescent obesity? A three-generational study
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015)Background/Objectives: Data from previous studies consistently suggest that maternal smoking is positively associated with obesity later in life. Whether this association persists across generations is unknown. We examined ... -
Is having more preapproval data the best way to assure drug safety?
(Project HOPE, 2008)An intensified focus on drug safety often leads to demands for more data collection prior to drug approval. Other approaches can be used, such as enhanced postmarketing surveillance. Many drug benefits and adverse effects ... -
Is Health Politics Different?
(Annual Reviews, 2012)The aging of the global population, combined with changes in technology and cultural understandings of disease and the body, have thrust discussion and contestation over health into the center of local, national, and global ... -
Is Household Air Pollution a Risk Factor for Eye Disease?
(MDPI, 2013)In developing countries, household air pollution (HAP) resulting from the inefficient burning of coal and biomass (wood, charcoal, animal dung and crop residues) for cooking and heating has been linked to a number of ... -
Is India a Flailing State?: Detours on the Four Lane Highway to Modernization
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)India is an emerging global superpower as its rapid growth has transformed its economy and has maintained itself as the world’s largest democracy. But at the same time India lags in many dimensions—its malnutrition rate ... -
Is it all processing all the way down?
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Is It All Relative? Effects of Prosodic Boundaries on the Comprehension and Production of Attachment Ambiguities
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)While there is ample evidence that prosody and syntax mutually constrain each other, there is considerable uncertainty about the nature of this interface. Here, we explore this issue with prepositional phrase attachment ... -
Is it the shape of the cavity, or the shape of the water in the cavity?
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2014)Historical interpretations of the thermodynamics characterizing biomolecular recognition have marginalized the role of water. An important (even, perhaps, dominant) contribution to molecular recognition in water comes from ... -
Is Malaria Illness among Young Children a Cause or a Consequence of Low Socioeconomic Status? Evidence from the United Republic of Tanzania
(BioMed Central, 2012)Background: Malaria is commonly considered a disease of the poor, but there is very little evidence of a possible two-way causality in the association between malaria and poverty. Until now, limitations to examine that ... -
Is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus replacing methicillin-susceptible S. aureus?
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011)Despite extensive research on the emergence of and treatments for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), prior studies have not rigorously evaluated the impact of methicillin resistance on the overall incidence ... -
Is Moral Reasoning Conceptual Interpretation
(The Boston University School of Law, 2010)