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Transportation Project Evaluation Methods/Approaches- Version 2

Rouhani, Omid - 2021

Building upon an earlier version, I further review the key methods to evaluate transportation projects. Since transportation projects offer substantial social benefits and costs, it is vital to provide a comparative analysis on the commonly-used methods, i.e., which method(s) to use and under...

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Transportation Project Evaluation Methods/Approaches- Version 2

Rouhani, Omid - 2021

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Cost overruns and demand shortfalls – deception or selection?

Eliasson, Jonas; Fosgerau, Mogens - 2013

be overly optimistic. Ex post evaluations indicate a bias where investment costs are higher and benefits lower on average … than predicted ex ante. These authors argue that the bias must be attributed to intentional misrepresentation by project … developers. This paper shows that the bias may arise simply as a selection bias, without there being any bias at all in …

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Análisis del mercado de órganos para trasplante: evaluación de la introducción de incentivos en la Argentina

Calabria, Alejandro A. - 2011

Since its expansion in the late 60s to the present the amount of transplant performed has increased slowly but steadily. However, the demand for organs to be transplanted has risen at a considerably higher rate creating a widening gap between the demand and supply for organs. In several cases,...

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Risk Aversion and the Value of Risk to Life

Bommier, Antoine; Villeneuve, Bertrand - 2008

The standard literature on the value of life relies on Yaari’s (1965) model, which includes an implicit assumption of risk neutrality with respect to life duration. To overpass this limitation, we extend the theory to a simple variety of nonadditively separable preferences. The enlargement we...

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Evaluating the Impact of National Volume-Based Procurement: Evidence from China

Wang, Zeyang - 2024

The Volume-Based Procurement (VBP) undertaken by governments significantly influences the healthcare landscape across numerous nations. Initiated in 2018 and broadened in 2019, the National Volume-Based Procurement in China has experienced eight phases of execution throughout key regions. This...

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Weighing Down America: 2020 Update A Community Approach against Obesity

Lopez, Claude; Bendix, Joseph - 2020

Obesity impacts segments of the US population differently based on their behavioral and socioeconomic profiles. The Milken Institute COVID-19 Community Explorer sorts US counties around eight profiles of communities that share common patterns across behavioral, economic, and social factors. This...

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How to Identify Health Innovation Gaps? Insights from Data on Diseases’ Costs, Mortality, and Funding

Lopez, Claude; Roh, Hyeongyul; Butler, Brittney - 2021

This report aims to identify disease categories with the highest economic and social costs and a low level of R&D investment. First, we combine data sets on diseases’ medical expenses, patient counts, death rates, and research funding. We then use text mining and machine learning methods to...

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Data Article. Data mining for the study of the Epidemic (SARS- CoV-2) COVID-19: Algorithm for the identification of patients (SARS-CoV-2) COVID 19 in Mexico

Medel-Ramírez, Carlos; Medel-López, Hilario - 2020

The importance of the working document is that it allows analyzing the information and status of the cases associated with (SARS-CoV-2) COVID-19 as open data at the municipal, state and national levels, with a daily registry of patients, according to age, sex, comorbidities, for the condition of...

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Оценка эффективности доклинической диагностики болезни Паркинсона методом "затраты-полезность"

Denisova, Irina; Chubarova, Tatiana; Bogatova, Irina; … - 2020

Neurodegenerative diseases, Parkinson disease being an example, set challenges to modern societies both in terms of premature deaths and resources spent on treatment of the diseases. Prevention and early diagnostics in particular, are potential directions towards higher economic efficiency of...

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