This paper performs a choice experiment assessing the impact of stay-at-home policies on individual welfare. We estimate willingness to accept compensation (WTA) for restricting non-working hours in Sweden during COVID-19 pandemic. The WTA one-month policy is about $480 per person, or 9.1 percent Sweden's monthly capita GDP. Stricter lockdowns require disproportionately higher than more lenient...

In The Netherlands, the average exit rate out of welfare is dramatically low. Most welfare recipients have to comply with guidelines on job search e ort that are imposed by the welfare agency. If they do not, then a sanction in the form of a temporarily bene t reduction can be imposed. This paper investigates the e ect of such sanctions on the transition from welfare to work using a unique set ...

A successive approximation ADC targeted for use in distributed sensor networks is presented. The individual nodes in these sensor networks are very energy constrained. Typical use of the individual nodes will include long periods of idle time in a low power standby mode followed by a period of activity that may include sampling of the sensors, computation, and communication. The ADC reported he...

BACKGROUND The left atrial posterior wall (PW) often contains sites required for maintenance of atrial fibrillation (AF). Electrical isolation of the PW is an important feature of all open surgeries for AF. This study assessed the ability of current ablation techniques to achieve PW isolation (PWI) and its effect on recurrent AF. METHODS AND RESULTS Fifty-seven consecutive patients with persi...

The physiologic and clinical implications of the empirical formula originally discovered by Edelman et al [J Clin Invest 37:1236-1256, 1958] relating the plasma water sodium concentration ([Na(+)](pw)) to the total exchangeable sodium (Na(e)), total exchangeable potassium (K(e)), and total body water (TBW) have recently been elucidated. It is quite remarkable that the full significance of the E...

In traditional economic models, individual utility depends only on absolute consumption. These models lie at the heart of claims that pursuit of individual self-interest promotes aggregate welfare. Recent years have seen renewed interest in economic models in which individual utility depends not only on absolute consumption, but also on relative consumption. In contrast to traditional models, t...