A growing literature in the economics of education emphasizes the importance of peer effects in determining students’ academic outcomes. Most of the existing empirical literature uses natural experiments in which students are randomly assigned to peer groups to identify the causal effect of peer characteristics. However, their results provide no direct evidence regarding the policy-relevant pro...

BACKGROUND Analysis of hospital mortality helps to assess the standards of health-care delivery. METHODS This is a retrospective cohort study evaluating the causes of deaths which occurred during the years 1995-1999 in a single hospital. The causes of death were classified according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). RESULTS Of the 149,896 patients who wer...

Evaluation of the health state of employees in relation to the working environment is one of the main tasks of occupational medicine. The specified results represent a part of a methodically oriented project which was focused on evaluation of: age structures of employees in the metallurgical plant being monitored in comparison with the age structure in the whole region, evaluation of the health...

I n this study, the Regional Input- Output Structural Decomposition Analysis (I-O SDA) is used to investigate the effects of technological changes on employment in Sistan and Baluchestan Province of Iran during 2006-2011. This paper develops the SDA method to decompose the technological change from two viewpoints of supply and demand for intermediate inputs in each sector. These chan...

The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Project defined four prognostic subgroups of Endometrial (EC): POLE (favorable prognosis), MSI and Copy Number Low (CNL) the intermediate prognosis; High (CNH) unfavorable prognosis. aim study is to perform a characterization at immune level EC-TCGA groups identify those cases that could be benefited immunotherapy. A total 48 FFPE EC were retrospectively selected ...

I estimate the effect of international migration on the human capital of children in the migrants’ origin country. I use an original administrative dataset containing all migrant departures from the Philippines and exploit variation across provinces in destination-country demand for migrants. My estimates are at the local labor market level, allowing for spillovers to non-migrant households. An...

The literature suggests that the use of miotics locally causes an increase in the size of the vascular bed of the iris and ciliary body through increased congestion (Seidel, 1920; Goldmann, I95I; Scholz, I946; Leopold and Comroe, I946; Hodgson, I955). Hyperaemia is a known effect of all miotics. All anticholinesterase agents produce vasodilatation of the ciliary body and conjunctiva. Metabolic ...

Abstract The aim of this study is of the effect of structural changes in higher education on changes of output in Sistan and Baluchestan Province using structural decomposition analysis (SDA). The input-output tables of this region for the period 2006-2011 have been employed as the database of the model. The structural changes were decomposed into two factors: changes in share of specific sect...

P roductivity promotion has received a key attention in contemporary macroeconomic analysis. Productivity of labor driven, in particular, by human capital (i.e. health and education), is seen vitally more important. Labor qualities in terms of health and education (treated as flow and stock variables), have a bearing on labor productivity. The main objective of this paper is to ident...

Economics of education which investigates economic issues related to education - presents a framework which leads to better schedules and policy-making. On the other hand, the concept of competitiveness has drawn increasing attention of both scholars and governors in the past decade. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has published Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) in order to measure national com...