This paper contributes to the growing political economy literature of within-country natural resources management, by proposing a new resource policy for the oil-rich southern Italian region of Basilicata. The policy proposal is to establish a (regional) wealth fund in which all the royalty revenues from non-renewable natural resource exploitation in Basilicata would be stored and fully convert...

The problem of long-term unemployment—jobless but seeking work for 12 months or more—was persistent throughout the 1980s and 1990s in all 30 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). However, the extent of the problem differed greatly among countries. In Canada, Norway, Sweden, and the United States, the proportion of unemployed who were long-term un...

In 1979, when anthropometric history was still in its infancy, Robert Fogel and collaborators reported that the height of the US male white population began to decline quite unexpectedly around the birth cohorts of 1830. This was quite a conundrum on account of the fact that according to conventional economic theory nutritional status was not expected to diminish at the outset of modern economi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke is a debilitating disease with long-term social and economic consequences. As new therapies for acute ischemic stroke are forthcoming, there is an increasing need to understand their long-term economic implications. To address this need, a stroke economic model was created. METHODS The model consists of 3 modules. A short-term module incorporates short-term clini...

BACKGROUND The recently-observed trend towards younger stroke patients in Korea raises economic concerns, including erosion of the workforce. We compared per-person lifetime costs of stroke according to the age of stroke onset from the Korean societal perspective. METHODS A state-transition Markov model consisted of three health states ('post primary stroke event', 'alive post stroke', and 'd...