The spreading of misinformation online
Significance The wide availability of user-provided content in online social media facilitates the aggregation of people around common interests, worldviews, and narratives. How...
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A Positive Theory of Monetary Policy in a Natural Rate Model
A discretionary policymaker can create surprise inflation, which may reduce employment and raise government revenue. But when people understand the policymaker's objectives, the...
Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality in 20 U.S. Cities, 1987–1994
There is consistent evidence that the levels of fine particulate matter in the air are associated with the risk of death from all causes and from cardiovascular and respiratory ...
The Impact of Dietary Fiber on Gut Microbiota in Host Health and Disease
Food is a primordial need for our survival and well-being. However, diet is not only essential to maintain human growth, reproduction, and health, but it also modulates and supp...
Evidence-Based Health Policy—Lessons from the Global Burden of Disease Study
The Global Burden of Disease Study, a comprehensive regional and global assessment of mortality and disability from 107 diseases and injuries and 10 risk factors, is an example ...
British Society of Gastroenterology consensus guidelines on the management of inflammatory bowel disease in adults
Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease are the principal forms of inflammatory bowel disease. Both represent chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, which displays h...
"Rational" Expectations, the Optimal Monetary Instrument, and the Optimal Money Supply Rule
Alternative monetary policies are analyzed in an ad hoc macroeconomic model in which the public's expectations about prices are rational. The ad hoc model is one in which there ...
Panel Data and Unobservable Individual Effects
Abstract An important purpose in pooling time-series and cross-section data is to control for individual-specific unobservable effects which may be correlated with other expla...