Importance Economics of care for adults with serious illness is a policy priority worldwide.
Palliative care may lower costs for hospitalized adults, but the evidence has important …

Correlated random-effects (Mundlak, 1978, Econometrica 46: 69–85; Wooldridge, 2010,
Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data [MIT Press]) and hybrid models …

Wooldridge (2005) provided a simple and elegant solution to the initial conditions problem
for dynamic nonlinear unobserved-effects models. His original auxiliary model includes the …

Health Economics: An International Perspective is the only textbook to provide a truly
international, comparative treatment of health economics. Offering an analysis of health …

By shaping the way people look at members of their networks as well as strangers, social
capital affects the behavior of a population during a pandemic. Over the course of 2020 …

Objectives. Measurement of health inequalities based on self-reports may be biased if
individuals use response scales in systematically different ways. We use anchoring …

The assessment of image quality in medical imaging often requires observers to rate images
for some metric or detectability task. These subjective results are used in optimization …

Objectives. We compared the extent of socioeconomic differences in use of health care
services based on wealth (ie, accumulated assets) as the socioeconomic ranking variable …

Objectives To estimate the attributable costs of multimorbidity and assess whether the
association between the level of multimorbidity and health system costs varies by socio …

Objective To examine the patterns of health care utilization by the elderly and test the
influence of functional decline. Data Source and Study Design We used the three regular …