Essays about: "weight of evidence"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 85 essays containing the words weight of evidence.

1. 1. Getting Wealthier and Healthier? Evidence From the Spanish Christmas Lottery

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Marcus Rundström; [2023]
   Keywords : Health; Birth weight; Wealth; Lottery; Difference-in-Difference; Causal; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This paper uses the Spanish Christmas Lottery to provide new evidence about the relationship between wealth and health for adults and infants. Using a difference-in-difference design across provinces and time, I explore how overall health status, hospitalization rates, neonatal health, and alcohol consumption are affected by lottery outcomes. READ MORE

3. 2. Uncontrollable Bodies : Self-harm behaviour among male undocumented migrants detained in Southern Italian CPR

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Giada Tagliente; [2023]
   Keywords : immigration detention; migrants; Italy; self harm; resistance;

   Abstract : In response to the recent surge in migrants entering Italy, the Italian government has implemented several laws since early 2023 to expand the administrative detention system for migrants - mostly males - pending repatriation, commonly known as Centri di Permanenza per il Rimpatr io (CPR). Despite the large body of evidence provided by national humanitarian organizations and academic research concerning their overall detrimental effect - both on national budgets and detainees’ psychophysiological health –, these centers are still deemed as the best way to deal with the migration phenomenon. READ MORE

4. 3. Development of a Compact Drive System for Total Artificial Heart

   University essay from KTH/Medicinteknik och hälsosystem

   Author : Hossin Bakhtiari; [2023]
   Keywords : Total Artificial Heart; Drive System; Miniaturization; Electric Motor; Motor Performance Evaluation; Motor Selection; Totalt artificiellt hjärta; drivsystem; miniatyrisering; elektrisk motor; motorprestanda utvärdering; motor-urval;

   Abstract : Over eight decades of research into total artificial hearts (TAHs) has significantly contributed  to saving end-stage heart failure patients. However, at the current stage of development TAHs have several limitations, one of them being their bulkiness. READ MORE

5. 4. Risk Stratification of Endometriosis through Machine Learning using Lifestyle Data : An Extensive Analysis on Lifestyle Data to Reveal Patterns in People with Endometriosis

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för kemi, bioteknologi och hälsa (CBH)

   Author : Patrick Carrera Jeri; [2023]
   Keywords : Lifestyle fators; Machine learning; Risk stratification; Endometriosis; Livsstilsfaktorer; Maskininlärning; Riskstratifiering; Endometrios;

   Abstract : Endometriosis affect 11% of women of reproductive years worldwide. The project made use of lifestyle factors coming from the Lucy application. READ MORE

6. 5. Fractional Cointegration and Price Discovery in FX Markets

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Johan Faxner; [2023]
   Keywords : exchange rates; price discovery; fractional cointegration; market microstructure; covered interest rate parity;

   Abstract : I employ bivariate fractionally cointegrated vector autoregressive models to analyze price discovery on the EUR/GBP market. Using daily spot rates between 2010 and 2022 along with corresponding one-month and three-month forward rates, I extract parameter estimates for pairwise long-run relationships, each pair containing a spot and a forward. READ MORE