Acutely hospitalized older patients have an increased risk of mortality, but at the moment of presentation this risk is difficult to assess. Early identification of patients at high risk might increase the awareness of the physician, and enable tailored decision-making. Existing screening instruments mainly use either geriatric factors or severity of disease for prognostication. Predictive perf...

AIM To examine the associations between acne and depressive symptoms, anxiety and suicidal behaviours. METHODS This was a secondary analysis of a cross-sectional survey -'Youth2000' (New Zealand national survey of youth health). A total of 9567 secondary school students aged 12-18 years participated in the survey. The main outcome measures were self-reported acne, depressive symptoms (Reynold...

We study the distributional consequences of student debt forgiveness in present value terms, accounting for differences repayment behavior across earnings distribution. Full or partial is regressive because high earners took larger loans, but also because, low earners, balances greatly overstate benefits cancellation. Consequently, would benefit top decile as much bottom three deciles combined....

Abstract We study assortative mating of Norwegian parents over five decades and its consequences for offspring outcomes. Parents are characterised by the earnings decile their (the offspring's grandparents) as an indicator social class. While has remained stable across decades, parenthood become more skewed toward higher classes. Examining influence on education employment, we find that margina...

Drawing on various macro- and micro-data sources, the authors present robust evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between female labor force participation inequality. Overall, is found to have a strong significant dis-equalizing impact in at least three groups developing countries with relatively low initial levels participation. A decile-level analysis shows that has higher returns am...

Using data from the 60(th) round of the National Sample Survey of India (2004), the study investigates the incidence and correlates of 'catastrophic' maternal expenditure (ME) in India. Data on ME come from 6879 births that took place during 365 days prior to the survey. The study adapts earlier definitions and methods for catastrophic total health care expenditure to measure 'catastrophic' ME ...

This paper assesses the impact that trade unions have on the wage rates paid to full-time employees in Great Britain using data from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey. Unlike previous research, this analysis is conducted over the entire range of the earnings distribution, where it is found that unions have more scope for increasing the earnings of workers on the very lowest of wage rates. Asymm...

CONTEXT Waist circumference may offer improved diagnosis of obesity in youth compared with body mass index (BMI), but empirical evidence is limited. OBJECTIVE To compare the ability of BMI percentile using UK reference data and waist circumference percentile using UK reference data to diagnose high fat mass in English children. DESIGN AND METHODS In 7,722 9-10-year-olds (3,809 boys, 3,913 g...