Healthy teeth are a vital and visible component of general well-being, but there is little systematic evidence to demonstrate its effect on labor market outcomes. In this paper, we examine the nature and magnitude of the effect of oral health on labor market outcomes by exploiting variation in access to fluoridated water during childhood. The politics surrounding the adoption of water fluoridat...

Big data has gained significant influence in recent years and is rapidly transforming the business, operations and technology landscape for a myriad of industries. Early adopters — particularly in retail and consumer products — have already derived significant business insights from big data management best practices, such as analysis of both the growing pools of structured transactional data f...

The sum total of funds poured into drug research by profit-seeking commercial entities now overshadows the total of government grants for biological research. An increasing fraction of that sum is earmarked for bioinformatics and genomics. While few if any investment decisions of this kind are based on a precise mathematical analysis, an attempt to quantify the economic value of bioinformation ...

The book is motivated by the lack of a core strategic theory of what firms do and their performance in the market and aims at developing a reasonably comprehensive theory of the firm for strategic management. In this regard, the book provides answers to the four major questions that a theory of the firm for strategy should address: what is a firm, why does it exist, what determines its size and...