I provide a simple introduction to the use of propensity score reweighting to assess the effect of changes in covariates on the distribution of an outcome (such as wages). I relate this to the literature on estimating “average treatment effects” and Blinder/Oaxaca decompositions as well as discuss some of the limitations and uses of reweighting.

A novel rabies virus was identified after death in a man who had immigrated from Oaxaca, Mexico, to California, USA. Despite the patient's history of exposure to domestic and wild carnivores, molecular and phylogenetic characterizations suggested that the virus originated from insectivorous bats. Enhanced surveillance is needed to elucidate likely reservoirs.

Conservation Units are an important tool for the Brazilian biota protection. However, various taxa, including social wasps, undersampled or unknown in these areas. Therefore, our study aimed to assess wasp richness and distribution Minas Gerais state, southeastern Brazil. The wasps were sampled between 2015 2019 Ritápolis National Forest (FLONA Ritápolis), Alto-Montana Private Natural Heritage ...

A Magnetoencephalography Study of 1 Visual Processing of Pain Anticipation 2 3 4 Andre G Machado , Raghavan Gopalakrishnan , Ela Plow , Richard C. Burgess 3, John 5 C Mosher 3 6 7 8 1 Center for Neurological Restoration, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic 9 Cleveland, OH 10 2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 11 Cleveland, OH 12 3 Epilepsy ...

OBJECTIVE To determine mortality trends from hypertension in Mexico nationwide, by state, by socioeconomic region, and by sex and to establish an association between education, state of residence, and socioeconomic region with mortality from hypertension in 2000-2008. METHODS Records of mortality associated with hypertension for 2000-2008 were obtained from the National Information System of ...

Several recent papers use the quantile regression decomposition method of Machado and Mata (2005) to analyze the gender gap across log wage distributions. In this paper, we prove that this procedure yields consistent and asymptotically normal estimates of the quantiles of the counterfactual distribution that it is designed to simulate. Since employment rates often differ substantially by gender...