This article describes income mobility patterns in New Zealand over the short to medium term. It uses a special dataset which tracks Household Labour Force Survey period from 2007 2020, using 2013 census data. The measure of is total family taxable per adult equivalent person. unit individual. Just below half those initially bottom decile remained either there or second-lowest seven years, whil...

BACKGROUND Universal access to health care, as provided in the NHS, does not ensure that patients' needs are met. AIM To explore the relationships between multimorbidity, general practice funding, and workload by deprivation in a national healthcare system. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional study using routine data from 956 general practices in Scotland. METHOD Estimated numbers of patie...

The paper quantitatively evaluates the interaction between capital-skill complementarity and endogenous low-, medium-, and high-skilled labour supply in generating wage inequality, using a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Auerbach-Kotliko¤ (1987) type. The counterfactual analysis conducted shows that the German skill premium de…ned by the 9 to 1 decile limit of earnings...

OBJECTIVE Falls are physically and financially costly, but may be preventable with targeted intervention. The Minimum Data Set (MDS) is one potential source of information on fall risk factors among nursing home residents, but its limited breadth and relatively infrequent updates may limit its practical utility. Richer, more frequently updated data from electronic medical records (EMRs) may imp...

Environmental justice is primarily concerned with uneven distribution of environmental harms and with the consequences such inequality often has for individual and community well-being, development, and growth. Recent expansion in quantity and improvement in quality of data on current and historic greenhouse gas (GHG) emission levels by country has drawn attention to differentiated national res...

BACKGROUND The demographic and geographic characteristics of the HIV epidemic in the US has changed substantially since the disease emerged, with women in the South experiencing a particularly high HIV incidence. In this study, we identified and described counties in the US in which the prevalence of HIV is particularly high in women compared to men. METHODS Using data from AIDSVu, a public d...

We recently reported an association between prostate cancer risk and polymorphisms in the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and androgen receptor (AR) genes. The purpose of this study is to test whether these two polymorphisms, AR CAG and PSA ARE1, influence serum PSA levels in healthy men. Serum PSA and the two genotypes were assayed for 420 healthy men from a multiethnic cohort, and regression ...

OBJECTIVE This study examines the usefulness of childhood glucose homeostasis variables (glucose, insulin, and insulin resistance index [homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance {HOMA-IR}]) in predicting pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes and related cardiometabolic risk factors in adulthood. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This retrospective cohort study consisted of normoglycemic (n = 1,0...

The term structure of credit default swap (CDS) spreads contains useful information about the firm’s fundamentals. Companies with a high CDS slope tend to experience increases in default risk, negative earning surprises and lower profitability in the future. Such information gets incorporated only gradually into stock prices. Firms in the lowest decile of CDS slope outperform the highest decile...

This paper establishes a strong link between the dispersion in beliefs among active mutual funds, as revealed through their active holdings (i.e., deviations from benchmarks), and future stock returns. We find that after standard risk adjustments, stocks in the top decile portfolio with large increases in dispersion outperform those in the bottom decile by more than 1% per month. This effect of...