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To Give Is to Get: The Promotional Role of Investment Bankers in Local Bond Elections.Public managers and elected officials are generally restricted from supporting election campaigns with public resources. In the case of legislative referenda, the public stakeholders responsible for putting a policy question on the ballot must play a …
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Borrowing for the Public Good: The Growing Importance of Tax-Exempt Bonds for Public CharitiesThe importance of tax-exempt borrowing as a capital source to the nonprofit sector has significantly grown over time. Tax-exempt bonds issued by nonprofits has risen from an inflation-adjusted $106.3 billion in 1993 to $388.5 billion in 2010 representing …
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Obamacare, five years after the law (French)Obamacare is the most important reform in the American healthcare system since 1965. Its introduction provoked unprecedented controversy between republicans and democrats. Whilst much remains to be done, it has already helped extend health insurance …
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Public Hospital Systems in New York and ParisWith sixteen hospitals and almost 10,500 beds, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) is the largest municipal hospital system in the United States. With forty-seven hospitals and almost thirty-three thousand beds, the Paris Hospital …
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Health and Health Care in BRIC Cities: Ideas for Collaborative ResearchAvailable on SSRN database here . The largest cities in the wealthy nations all face an unprecedented challenge: how to meet the needs of a population that lives longer, has a declining birth rate, is generally healthier, but also increasingly beset by …
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Understanding Pay Differentials Among Health Professionals, Nonprofessionals, And Their Counterparts In Other SectorsAbout half of the $2.1 trillion of US health services spending constitutes compensation to employees. We examined how the wages paid to health-sector employees compared to those paid to workers with similar qualifications in other sectors. Overall, we …
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The Role of Neighborhood Characteristics in Mortgage Default Risk: Evidence from New York CityUsing a rich database of non-prime mortgages from New York City, we find that census tract level neighborhood characteristics are important predictors of default behavior, even after controlling for an extensive set of controls for loan and borrower …
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Accessibility of America’s Housing Stock: Analysis of the 2011 American Housing SurveyThe American Housing Survey (AHS) is the most comprehensive national housing survey in the United States. Since 2009, AHS has included six core disability questions used in the American Community Survey. The questions address hearing, visual, cognitive, …
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Determinants of Mortgage Default and Consumer Credit Use: The Effects of Foreclosure Laws and Foreclosure DelaysThe mortgage default decision is part of a complex household credit management problem. We examine how factors affecting mortgage default spill over to other credit markets. As home equity turns negative, homeowners default on mortgages and HELOCs at …
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Pathways After Default: What Happens to Distressed Mortgage Borrowers and Their HomesWe use a detailed dataset of seriously delinquent mortgages to examine the dynamic process of mortgage default—from initial delinquency and default to final resolution of the loan and disposition of the property. We estimate a two-stage competing risk …
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The Next Coming Crisis of Capitalism: A Review of Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas PikettySewin Chan …
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The Fiscal Challenge of an Aging Population in the U.S.This chapter examines the fiscal challenge posed by the aging of the U.S. population. We summarize the likely future of U.S. demographics, focusing on the evolution of the dependency ratio. We describe the main U.S. government programs related to aging …
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A Port Authority That WorksThe Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has been a vital force in the physical and economic growth of the New York-New Jersey region. During the past few years, however, public attention has focused on the Port Authority’s spending, management, …
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The effect of changes in Medicare reimbursement on the practice of office and hospital-based endoscopic surgery for bladder cancerBackground : Procedures performed in the office offer potential cost savings. Recent analyses suggest, however, that a fee-for-service system may incentivize subscale operations and, thus, contribute to excessive spending. The authors of this report …
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Prostate Specific Antigen at the Initial Diagnosis of Metastasis to Bone in Patients After Radical ProstatectomyPurpose : Among men with biochemical progression after radical prostatectomy little is known about prostate specific antigen at the time of metastasis to bone in hormone naïve patients. This information would be useful in determining when to initiate …
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Regional Variation in Total Cost per Radical Prostatectomy in the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide Inpatient Sample DatabasePurpose : Surgical treatment for prostate cancer represents a large national health care expenditure. We determined whether state level variation in the cost of radical prostatectomy exists and whether we could explain this variation by adjusting for …
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Validation of the Partin Nomogram for Prostate Cancer in a National SamplePurpose : The Partin tables are a nomogram that is widely used to discriminate prostate cancer pathological stages, given common preoperative clinical characteristics. The nomogram is based on patients undergoing radical prostatectomy at The Johns Hopkins …
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DNA content in the diagnostic biopsy for benign-adjacent and cancer-tissue areas predicts the need for treatment in men with T1c prostate cancer undergoing surveillance in an expectant management programmeObjective : To assess the DNA content in benign-adjacent and cancer-tissue areas of a diagnostic biopsy, to predict which patients would subsequently develop an unfavourable biopsy necessitating treatment for prostate cancer in the expectant management …
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Patient Centered Outcomes in Prostate Cancer Treatment: Predictors of Satisfaction Up to 2 Years After Open Radical Retropubic ProstatectomyPurpose : Few groups have examined satisfaction after prostate cancer treatment. We determined 1) predictors of satisfaction between 3 months and 2 years after open radical retropubic prostatectomy, and 2) whether these factors are time dependent. …
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Renal Ultrasonography in the Evaluation of Acute Kidney Injury: Developing a Risk Stratification FrameworkBackground : In adult inpatients with acute kidney injury (AKI), clinicians routinely order a renal ultrasonography (RUS) study. It is unclear how often this test provides clinically useful information. Methods : Cross-sectional study, including …
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Significance of preoperative PSA velocity in men with low serum PSA and normal DREObjectives : A PSA velocity (PSAV) >0.35 ng/ml/year approximately 10–15 years prior to diagnosis is associated with a greater risk of lethal prostate cancer. Some have recommended that a PSAV >0.35 ng/ml/year should prompt a prostate biopsy in men with a …
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ProPSA and Diagnostic Biopsy Tissue DNA Content Combination Improves Accuracy to Predict Need for Prostate Cancer Treatment Among Men Enrolled in an Active Surveillance ProgramObjectives : To assess a novel application of the Prostate Health Index (phi) and biopsy tissue DNA content in benign-adjacent and cancer areas to predict which patients would eventually require treatment of prostate cancer in the Proactive Surveillance …