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Is the 2007 US Sub-Prime Financial Crisis So Different? An International Historical Comparison
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Is the Association between Socioeconomic Position and Coronary Heart Disease Stronger in Women than in Men?
(, 2005)The association between socioeconomic position and health is generally believed to be weaker among women than men. However, gender differences in the relation between socioeconomic position and coronary heart disease have ... -
Is the Association of Airborne Particles with Daily Deaths Confounded by Gaseous Air Pollutants? An Approach to Control by Matching
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2004)Although particulate air pollution has been associated with increased numbers of daily deaths in dozens of cities around the world, issues still remain about the association. Some have questioned the complex modeling used ... -
Is the Clean Air Act Unconstitutional?
(2015-01-20)When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issues national ambient air quality regulations, it should meet two requirements. First, the EPA should specify, to the extent possible in quantitative terms, the range of ... -
"Is the Copy Better than the Original? The Regulation of Orphan Drugs: a US-EU Comparative Perspective"
(2004)The US Orphan Drug Act of 1983 pioneered the regulation of this type of medicines, and its success encouraged other countries to enact similar legislation. Among these new orphan drug laws is the one that was drafted in ... -
Is the Dust Obscuring Supernovae in Distant Galaxies the Same as Dust in the Milky Way?
(American Astronomical Society, 1996)Previous attempts to correct type Ia supernovae (SN Ia's) for host galaxy extinction have given strange results: increased dispersion on the Hubble diagram or impossibly low values of the reddening ratio for dust in distant ... -
Is the FDA Sexist? Sex and the Drug Approval Process
(2003)This paper examines the role of sex in the drug approval process. Medical literature has explored in great depth the many ways in which men and women differ, sometimes dramatically, often in ways that are seemingly unrelated ... -
Is the Kaiser Permanente Model Superior in Terms of Clinical Integration?: A Comparative Study of Kaiser Permanente, Northern California and the Danish Healthcare System
(BioMed Central, 2010)Background: Integration of medical care across clinicians and settings could enhance the quality of care for patients. To date, there is limited data on the levels of integration in practice. Our objective was to compare ... -
"Is the LORD in Our Midst or Not?" Conceptions of Divine Presence in Ancient Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the Calf Incident
This study examines various notions of divine presence as integral to the depiction of Israel's apostasy at Mount Sinai within the redacted Pentateuch as well as to interpretations of that composite text by ancient Jews ... -
Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation.
(The MIT Press, 2008)This paper uses decennial Census data to examine trends in immigrant segregation in the United States between 1910 and 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in the first half of the century, but has been rising over the ... -
Is the Nature of Magnetic Order in Copper-Oxides and in Iron-Pnictides Different?
(Elsevier, 2010)We use the results of first-principles electronic structure calculations and a strong coupling perturbation approach, together with general theoretical arguments, to illustrate the differences in super-exchange interactions ... -
Is the Protestant Ethic Alive in Latin America? an Empirical Assessment of the Economic Impacts of Religion and Missionaries in Guatemala
(2016-06-22)This paper assesses the theory that Protestantism has caused income growth during recent decades in Latin America. Focusing on Guatemala and using individual-level data from Demographic and Health Surveys, I find, contrary ... -
Is the Relationship between Prenatal Exposure to PCB-153 and Decreased Birth Weight Attributable to Pharmacokinetics?
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2013)Background: A recent meta-analysis based on data from > 7,000 pregnancies reported an association between prenatal polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)–153 exposure and reduced birth weight. Gestational weight gain, which is ... -
Is the SEC captured? Evidence from comment-letter reviews
(2017-06-28)SEC oversight of publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC) ... -
Is the Tax Credit for SME in Chile an Effective Policy to Boost Investment?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-07)This paper evaluates the effect of the investment tax credit on investment decisions of small and medium enterprises (SME) and recommends future steps to the Chilean Government. Although this instrument has existed since ... -
Is the Taxable Income Elasticity Sufficient to Calculate Deadweight Loss? The Implications of Evasion and Avoidance
(American Economic Association, 2009)Martin Feldstein's (1999) widely used taxable income formula for deadweight loss assumes the marginal social cost of evasion and avoidance equals the tax rate. This condition is likely to be violated in practice for two ... -
Is the Third Amendment Obsolete
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Is the U.S. Aggregate Production Function Cobb-Douglas? New Estimates of the Elasticity of Substitution
(Berkeley Electronic Press, 2004)I present new estimates of the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor using data from the private sector of the U.S. economy for the period 1948-1998. I first adopt Berndt’s (1976) specification, which ... -
Is the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Impacting Mental Health Laws and Policies in High-Income Countries? A Case Study of Implementation in Canada
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Persons with psychosocial disabilities face disparate access to healthcare and social services worldwide, along with systemic discrimination, structural inequalities, and widespread human rights abuses. ...