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May 18th, 2008

"'It is very difficult to keep a 24-week baby alive'"

Following on from our ESRI Seminar, here's some coverage on the issue in the Guardian. Also, our work was covered […]

May 13th, 2008

ESRI Research Seminar

I'm speaking at the ESRI on Thursday about these two papers (here and here) and really looking forward to it. […]

May 11th, 2008

"The Zimbabwean currency has become so worthless, that you can find it littering the streets "

From a BBC article on how normal people cope in a hyperinflation. Read the rest of the article here.

May 9th, 2008

"It is wrong for patients who are sick enough to require admission to hospital to be kept in the emergency department, and the entire health system must respond to their plight."

From a just published article in the Emergency Medicine Journal: Background and objectives: In the Boarders in the Emergency Department […]

May 8th, 2008

links for 2008-05-08

Impact of the recall period on measuring health utilities for acute events The impact of healthcare interventions on health utility […]

May 8th, 2008

Micro Cost Measurement of RSV Bronchiolitis Hospital Admissions in the Mid-West

Abstract Background: Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)-bronchiolitis and it’s prophylaxis, is costly. Our literature search did not reveal studies performed on […]

May 8th, 2008

"To have numbers seems to be more important than whether the numbers are reliable. This is a paradox. How can we simultaneously mistrust models and advocate their use?"

Statistical modelling increasingly drives decision-making in the financial system while at the same time significant questions remain about model reliability […]

May 8th, 2008

Peter Albin is dead

Reading Peter Albin and Duncan Foley's Barriers and Bounds to Rationality made me want to do research in complex adaptive […]

May 8th, 2008

Three Cool New Papers on Firm Level Productivity

Barr and Serneels: Reciprocity in the Workplace Abstract: Using combined experimental and survey data, this paper provides empirical evidence that […]

May 4th, 2008

‘What is the use of your going to school, if we don’t have anything to eat and life is so difficult?"

Voices of the Poor

May 2nd, 2008

EC4024 Problem Set 2 Answers

Click the link below to download the answers. EC4024_PS2_Answers.nb

May 2nd, 2008

Woops!

Here are the proper problem set 2 marks and grade breakdown. Sorry about the mix up.

May 1st, 2008

links for 2008-05-01

Bruce Sacerdote (tags: interestingpeople)

May 1st, 2008

Economic Effects on Stock Market Returns: Evidence from India

This study examines the short-run and long-run causal relationships between selected macroeconomic variables and stock market returns in the emerging […]

April 30th, 2008

links for 2008-04-30

2008 Winter Workshop on Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (tags: Conferences) A Collection of Advice for the Young Economist (tags: […]

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