Publications

Spermidine in health and disease

Having your longevity and eating too Although caloric restriction has clear benefits for maximizing health span and life span, it is sufficiently unpleasant that few humans stic...

Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online

Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Rational expectations and the role of monetary policy

Cloning of a Factor Required for Activity of the Ah (Dioxin) Receptor

The aryl hydrocarbon (Ah) receptor binds various environmental pollutants, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, heterocyclic amines, and polychlorinated aromatic compounds ...

Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews

Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Sys...

Monitoring Natural and Synthetic Estrogens at Activated Sludge Sewage Treatment Plants and in a Receiving River Water

Sewage treatment plant (STP) effluents with primarily domestic inputs are strongly suspected to be an important source of natural and synthetic estrogens contaminating the aquat...

Addressing Global Mortality from Ambient PM_2.5

Ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has a large and well-documented global burden of disease. Our analysis uses high-resolution (10 km, global-coverage) concentration data a...

Educational systems and labor market outcomes

Educational opportunities, and the specific structures of educational systems, are as consequential for mobility in labor markets as are the attributes of the individuals who ma...

Qualitative Research Methods: A Health Focus

Tests for Parameter Instability in Regressions with 1(1) Processes

This article derives the large-sample distributions of Lagrange multiplier (LM) tests for parameter instability against several alternatives of interest in the context of cointe...

Divergent Production Regimes: Coordinated and Uncoordinated Market Economies in the 1980s and 1990s

The systematic analysis of advanced capitalist economies has had two main focuses. One has been the welfare state: this owes much to the work of Esping-Andersen in distinguishin...