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PCN88 Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of Economic and Healthcare Resource Utilization Evidence in the Treatment of Relapsed or Refractory Large B-Cell Lymphoma (LBCL)

To conduct an SLR to understand the breadth of economic and healthcare resource utilization evidence for relapsed/refractory LBCL. We searched MEDLINE, Embase, NHS Economic Evaluation Database, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination Health Technology Appraisals database, Tufts Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Registry, and Health Economics Research Centre Database of Mapping Studies from 1/2003–6/2020. English-language articles, conference abstracts, and health technology assessments (HTAs) reporting costs for treatment of relapsed/refractory LBCL were included. Of 6791 records screened, 46 were included. Forty-two unique economic studies (costing studies [n=24]; cost-effectiveness analyses [n=9]; HTAs [n=9]) were identified (US [n=24], UK [n=5], Canada [n=4], Australia [n=2], Malawi [n=2], Spain [n=2], Chile [n=1], France [n=1], France/UK [n=1]). In the US (n=4), first-year total healthcare costs were $159,729–$182,516 for chemotherapy and $282,022–$455,741 for stem cell transplantation (SCT) and chemotherapy; highest costs were attributed to allogeneic SCT (allo-SCT) with chemotherapy. In France (n=1), mean per-patient hospital costs were €93,233 for index allo-SCT, €14,617 for pre-allo-SCT chemotherapy, and €16,625 for 6-month post-allo-SCT follow-up care. Mean length of stay (LOS) and associated inpatient costs varied by treatment in the US (SCT: 24.6–32.3 days, $123,455–$248,390; chemotherapy: 5.9–12.9 days, $55,068–$75,094; CAR T-cell therapy: 14.3–23.3 days, $376,982–$429,415). CAR T-cell therapy costs (excluding CAR T acquisition cost) from leukapheresis to 2 months post-infusion were higher in the US ($64,784) versus France (€30,172) and the UK (£24,009). Cross-study reporting was highly variable, with definitions, cost components, and follow-up inconsistently reported. Despite this variation, SCT, particularly allo-SCT, incurred higher first-year costs than salvage chemotherapy. Inpatient costs were greater for CAR T-cell therapy than SCT and chemotherapy. Mean LOS for SCT was 1–18 and 12–26 days longer than CAR T-cell therapy and chemotherapy, respectively. Reporting consistency should be considered when interpreting cross-study results.

A systematized review on diabetes gamification.

Background: Gamification is an effective tool used to enhance the quality of education and training, to create motivation and enthusiasm, and to maintain competitiveness in the targeted population. Given that, the present study is an attempt to review gamification used in the field of diabetes systematically and its effects on the target group. Methods: Articles were retrieved from eight databases via an electronic advanced search. The data were imported to Endnote; and to assess the quality of the articles, PRISMA and CASP were used. Finally, according to the inclusion criteria, the appropriate articles were selected. Results: This study indicates that physical activity and nutrition were the most frequent diabetic subgroups in diabetes gamification. In addition, all diabetes gamification programs were designed to educate, teach skills and make behavior improvement in diabetics. Conclusion: Diabetes gamification have the capacity to change health behaviors among all age groups and can create an innovative, attractive and interactive learning environment accompanied by fun and engagement. Professor, Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Librarianship and Medical Information Science, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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SOLE 2021/26th Annual Meetings

Previous articleNext article FreeSOLE 2021/26th Annual Meetings Call for PapersPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThe Society of Labor Economists will hold the 26th Annual Meetings on May 14–15, 2021, at the Sonesta Philadelphia, 1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.Complete papers should be submitted for both full and poster sessions. Only one submission per person is permitted. Keep checking the website at https://sole-jole.org for a link to the submission portal.The deadline for submission is October 31, 2020.Robert Moffitt, PresidentKevin Lang, President-ElectThomas Lemiux, Vice President Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Labor Economics Volume 38, Number 3July 2020 Published for the Society of Labor Economists, Economics Research Center/ NORC Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/709392 © 2020 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Almanya ve Türkiye Ekonomik Beklentilerinin Karşılaştırılması: ZEW ve Ekonomik Güven Endeksi Duyarlılık Göstergelerinin Analizi

Bir ekonominin kısa dönemdeki görünümünü yansıtan “ekonomik duyarlılık” endeksleri bazı gelişmiş ülkelerde uzun yıllardan beri kullanılmaktadır. Almanya’da Avrupa Ekonomik Araştırmalar Merkezi (Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung- ZEW) tarafından oluşturulan ZEW endeksi bu endekslerden biridir ve Alman ekonomisinin kısa dönem beklentileri hakkında fikir verici bir gösterge olarak kullanılmaktadır. Türkiye’de ise kısa dönem beklentileri ölçmek amacıyla Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK) aracılığıyla uygulanan Ekonomik Güven Endeksi (EGE) benzer bir araçtır. Bu çalışmada, Türkiye’nin en önemli dış ticaret ortağı olan Almanya’daki ekonomik beklentilerin Türkiye’deki ekonomik beklentileri etkileyip etkilemediği araştırılmaktadır. Bu amaçla 2007:01-2019:05 dönemi aylık ZEW ve EGE endeks verilerine Hacker ve Hatemi-J’nin (2006) geliştirdiği simetrik(klasik) nedensellik testi ve Hatemi-J (2012) asimetrik(saklı) nedensellik testi uygulanmıştır. Sonuçlar Alman ekonomisi hakkındaki beklentilerin kötüleşmesi halinde Türk ekonomisi hakkındaki beklentilerin de kötüleştiğini, ancak Alman ekonomisi hakkındaki iyimser beklentilerin Türkiye ekonomisinde her zaman iyimser beklentilere yol açmadığına işaret etmektedir.

'Mapping' Health State Utility Values from Non-preference-Based Measures: A Systematic Literature Review in Rare Diseases.

The use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to monitor the effects of disease and treatment on patient symptomatology and daily life is increasing in rare diseases (RDs) (i.e. those affecting less than one in 2000 people); however, these instruments seldom yield health state utility values (HSUVs) for cost-utility analyses. In such a context, 'mapping' allows HSUVs to be obtained by establishing a statistical relationship between a 'source' (e.g. a disease-specific PROM) and a 'target' preference-based measure [e.g. the EuroQol-5 Dimension (EQ-5D) tool]. This study aimed to systematically review all published studies using 'mapping' to derive HSUVs from non-preference-based measures in RDs, and identify any critical issues related to the main features of RDs, which are characterised by small, heterogeneous, and geographically dispersed patient populations. The following databases were searched during the first half of 2019 without time, study design, or language restrictions: MEDLINE (via PubMed), the School of Health and Related Research Health Utility Database (ScHARRHUD), and the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) database of mapping studies (version 7.0). The keywords combined terms related to 'mapping' with Orphanet's list of RD indications (e.g. 'acromegaly') in addition to 'rare' and 'orphan'. 'Very rare' diseases (i.e. those with fewer than 1000 cases or families documented in the medical literature) were excluded from the searches. A predefined, pilot-tested extraction template (in Excel®) was used to collect structured information from the studies. Two groups of studies were identified in the review. The first group (n = 19) developed novel mapping algorithms in 13 different RDs. As a target measure, the majority used EQ-5D, and the others used the Short-Form Six-Dimension (SF-6D) and 15D; most studies adopted ordinary least squares (OLS) regression. The second group of studies (n = 9) applied previously published algorithms in non-RDs to comparable RDs, mainly in the field of cancer. The critical issues relating to 'mapping' in RDs included the availability of very few studies, the relatively high number of cancer studies, and the absence of research in paediatric RDs. Moreover, the reviewed studies recruited small samples, showed a limited overlap between RD-specific and generic PROMs, and highlighted the presence of cultural and linguistic factors influencing results in multi-country studies. Lastly, the application of existing algorithms developed in non-RDs tended to produce inaccuracies at the bottom of the EQ-5D scale, due to the greater severity of RDs. More research is encouraged to develop algorithms for a broader spectrum of RDs (including those affecting young children), improve mapping study quality, test the generalisability of algorithms developed in non-RDs (e.g. HIV) to rare variants or evolutions of the same condition (e.g. AIDS wasting syndrome), and verify the robustness of results when mapped HSUVs are used in cost-utility models.

Multifunctionality of Forests: A White Paper on Challenges and Opportunities in China and Germany

Both in Germany and in China, there is strong expertise regarding the different aspects of forest management, as well as forest products management. Nevertheless, forestry in both countries is facing challenges, some of which are regional, but many of which are shared. Therefore, experts from both countries (Technical University of Munich Germany; Northwest A&F University Yangling, China; Forestry Academy of Shaanxi, China; Thünen Institut, Germany; FEDRC GIZ Forest Policy Facility (Forestry Economics Development and Research Center of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH), Germany; and Center for Natural Forest Protection in Shaanxi, China) met to share their knowledge and deduce recommendations for future multifunctional forest management for the temperate zone. The workshop, held at the Northwest A&F University in September 2018, included presentations and intensive discussions, as well as a field tour. The results of the workshop that are summarized in this white paper are meant to provide an overview of the multi-faceted nature of the topic for interested scientists and forest practitioners, describe tools that can be used to analyze various aspects of multifunctionality and, in an exemplary fashion, highlight gathered experience from long- and short-term experiments. Included are social demands, economic goals, and scientific baselines. The topics reach from economic evaluations of forest ecosystem services over forest management practices, including afforestation, restoration, and preparations to face climate change, to wood/forest products utilization and participation of local people for poverty reduction. Overall, an optimistic picture emerges, showing that by using adapted forest management practices, which try to embrace the concept of multifunctionality, various use schemes and demands can be integrated at single sites, allowing us to achieve both environmental protection and productive forests, including societal demands, as well as aspects of tradition and national identity.

PENGARUH VARIABEL MAKRO EKONOMI DAN HARGA MINYAK DUNIA TERHADAP INDUSTRI HALAL

This paper aims to discover the influence of inflation rate, exchange rate, global’s oil price and FDI toward halal industry in 48 OIC’s member Countries. This research uses data by Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (Sesric), world bank and Thomas Reuters with quantative approach and were analyzed by using panel data analysis. According to the result it is have positive significant influence to the halal industry in 48 OIC Countries. Inflation rate have a significant positive influant; exchange rate have a non significant positive influant; global’s oil price have a significant negative influant; and FDI have a non-significant negative influant toward the increasing of the unemployment rate in 48 OIC’s Countries.Keywords: Halal Industry, Inflation, Exchange Rate, Global’s Oil Price, FDI

The Determinants of Bank Profitability: How Malaysian Islamic Banks Response to the Financing Risk

The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between financing risk and profitability of Malaysian Islamic banks to find the impact of financing risk on bank profitably in achieving high level of stability. A regression analysis is built on an unbalanced panel data set comprising 175 observations of 17 top Malaysian Islamic banks over the period 1994-2015. To this end, the empirical data are collected from individual Islamic banks’ financial statements as submitted to the Central Bank of Malaysia for supervisory purposes. Complementary sources include the Global Market Information Database, the World Bank's Annual Report through the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Center for Islamic Countries (SESRTCIC) and Asian Development Bank (ADB). All the determinant variables included in the model have statistically significant impacts on Malaysian Islamic banks’ profitability. However, the effects are not uniform across profitability measures. Regression findings reveal that capital ratio, financing loss provision and liquidity ratio significantly affect the profitability of Islamic banks. Some variables of monetary policy variables such as interest rate and interbank rate have a significant role on the Islamic banks’ profitability. Interestingly, there is a difference of the two variables where interest rate shown negative sign while positive sign from interbank rate. Findings also suggest the economic conditions factors such as GDP growth and unemployment also affects the profitability of Islamic banks despite the sign is different.

Insurance Behaviour of Insured Farmers under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY) in Central India

To identify insurance behaviour of insured farmer’s, the study was carried out by Agro Economic Research Centre, JNKVV, Jabalpur. Umaria, Jabalpur and Sagar districts have been selected randomly under the ICICI-Lombard, AIC and HDFC-ERGO were found to be major implementing agencies of PMFBY in Madhya Pradesh. From each agency 40 respondents were selected from the respective districts constituting sample size of 120 respondents. District Cooperative Bank was found to be the main implementing bank in the area under study. 90 per cent of the HHS availed crop insurance facility under PMFBY. More than 80 per cent HHs were found to be aware of PMFBY and the main source of awareness was found to be TV/Newspaper and relatives/friends (>35%) followed by government awareness programmes (>20%) and insurance companies (>10%) among HHs. The major events of losses were found to be yield loss (36.67%) followed by prevented sowing/planting due to deficit rainfall or adverse weather (3.33%). The compensation secured in Kharif was found to be more in case of loanee insured (Rs. 8236/-) as compared to non-loanee insured (Rs. 6379/-) HHs. The majority of HHs did not know the complete feature of PMFBY in totality and opined that this is the same as the previous scheme (90%). It was also observed that 44 and 66 per cent of loanee and non-loanee insured HHs used to inform the event of losses to bank officials (>35%) and local government officials (>57%).

Introduction: A Good Start? Determinants of Initial Labor Market Success

Previous articleNext article No AccessIntroduction: A Good Start? Determinants of Initial Labor Market SuccessDavid CardDavid CardUniversity of California, Berkeley Search for more articles by this author University of California, BerkeleyPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Labor Economics Volume 37, Number S1January 2019A Good Start? Determinants of Initial Labor Market Success Published for the Society of Labor Economists, Economics Research Center/ NORC Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/701217 Views: 621Total views on this site © 2019 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

H. Gregg Lewis Prize

Previous articleNext article FreeH. Gregg Lewis PrizePDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThe H. Gregg Lewis Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Labor Economics during 2016–2017 has been awarded to Lena Hensvik and Oskar Nordström Skans for “Social Networks, Employee Selection, and Labor Market Outcomes,” which appeared in the October 2016 issue of the Journal.The Prize Committee consisted of Melvin Stephens Jr. (chair), Marianne Page, and Jessica Pan (previous Lewis Prize winner). Social networks have long been of interest to labor economists, and access to administrative data in recent years has allowed researchers to test the theoretical implications of network models. Hensvik and Skans examine the importance of employee referrals in the hiring of new workers. If high-quality workers tend to interact with other high-quality workers through their social networks, then employers can leverage these relationships through referrals in situations where the quality of potential hires is not easily observed. Employee referrals in the presence of networks yield predictions for the quality and wages of new hires as well as for the probability of using referrals in the hiring process. A long-standing hurdle to empirically testing these ideas, however, is information on worker quality that is unobserved by employers but is observed, perhaps imperfectly, by employees.Hensvik and Skans leverage population register data from Sweden to create a sample of newly hired and incumbent male workers. Worker networks are created through linking spells of overlapping employment at prior employers. Key to their analysis is that nearly every 18- or 19-year-old Swedish male underwent the military draft process in which they were subjected to both cognitive and noncognitive testing, with individuals kept unaware of their own test results. Using these test scores, which are available in the register data, along with information on networks through prior employment, the authors confirm the numerous predictions on the impact of referrals through employee networks. The finding that firms hire workers through the social ties of more productive employees has important implications for understanding wage inequality. The use of such employee referral networks implies that greater ability sorting in the labor market will increasingly work to the disadvantage of equally productive workers without access to high-ability ties. The committee was impressed with the authors’ creative use of population register data to study this important topic.Past H. Gregg Lewis Prize winners:1990–1991Robert Gibbons and Lawrence F. Katz1992–1993James N. Brown and Audrey Light1994–1995John Bound, Charles Brown, Greg J. Duncan, and Willard L. Rodgers1996–1997Christina H. Paxson and Nachum Sicherman1998–1999Derek A. Neal2000–2001H. Lorne Carmichael and W. Bentley MacLeod2002–2003Eric D. Gould2004–2005Pascal Courty and Gerald Marschke2006–2007Fabian Lange2008–2009Maxim Poletaev and Chris Robinson2010–2011William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln2012–2013Laura Giuliano2014–2015Jessica Pan Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Labor Economics Volume 36, Number 3July 2018 Published for the Society of Labor Economists, Economics Research Center/ NORC Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/698528 Views: 273Total views on this site © 2018 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

SOLE 2019: 24th Annual Meetings / Call for Papers

Previous articleNext article FreeSOLE 2019: 24th Annual Meetings / Call for PapersPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThe Society of Labor Economists will hold its Twenty-Fourth Annual Meetings on May 3–4, 2019, at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View in Arlington, Virginia (near Washington, DC).Individuals are invited to submit proposals through an online interface whose address will be published at http://www.sole-jole.org/. Complete papers should be submitted for both full and poster sessions. Only one submission per person is permitted. The deadline for submission is October 31, 2018.Joseph Altonji, PresidentKatharine G. Abraham, President-ElectRobert Moffitt, Vice-President Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Labor Economics Volume 36, Number 3July 2018 Published for the Society of Labor Economists, Economics Research Center/ NORC Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/698479 © 2018 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

SOLE 2018 Fellows Awards for Best Posters

Previous articleNext article FreeSOLE 2018 Fellows Awards for Best PostersPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreGroup A: Family Economics and Labor SupplyWinner: Etienne Pasteau and Junyi Zhu, “Love and Money with Inheritance: Marital Sorting between Labor Income and Inherited Wealth in the Modern Partnership”Group B: Human Capital, Education, Training, and HealthWinner: German Blanco and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, “Does Youth Training Lead to Better Job Quality? Evidence from Job Corps”Group C: Labor Demand and InequalityWinner: Marcus Dillender and Eliza Forsythe, “White Collar Technological Change: Evidence from Job Posting Data”Group D: Topics in Labor EconomicsWinner: Peter Blair, “Outside Options (Now) More Important than Race in Explaining Tipping Points in U.S. Neigborhoods”Judges: John Abowd, Katharine Abraham, Joseph Altonji, Kerwin Charles, Christian Dustmann, Henry Farber, Eric Hanushek, Kevin Lang, W. Bentley MacLeod, Marjorie McElroy, Robert Moffitt, Derek Neal, Kathryn Shaw, Jeff Smith, Petra Todd, and Robert Willis. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Labor Economics Volume 36, Number 3July 2018 Published for the Society of Labor Economists, Economics Research Center/ NORC Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/698721 © 2018 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Jacob Mincer Award

Previous articleNext article FreeJacob Mincer AwardPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreHenry Farber is the 2018 recipient of the Jacob Mincer Award for a lifetime of contributions to labor economics. Farber is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He is a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, the Econometric Society, and the Labor and Employment Relations Association as well as a past president of the Society of Labor Economists.Hank’s study of labor markets and labor unions started well before his academic work in the field. He learned to drive a forklift while in his teens and for several years was a card-carrying member of the Teamsters Union. Hank earned his BA at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before moving to Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations for an MS. Hank earned his PhD in economics at Princeton University. Hank’s integration of technical economics and econometrics with the traditional study of labor markets is a hallmark of his scholarship. His own background and his education help explain the remarkable success of his research agenda, but his wide breadth of interests and his deep insights into human behavior have been critical to his success.Hank’s first major papers were studies of union bargaining behavior and strikes and the determination of wages and employment in a union setting—both published in 1978, in the American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy, respectively. These were papers that defined a new and more quantitative approach to the great topics that occupied labor economists in the early post–Vietnam War period. Hank’s work changed forever the way these topics would be studied by economists.Hank’s first academic position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) brought him into contact with both the old and the new in labor economics. Fruitful collaborations led to a series of influential papers that defined a rigorous paradigm for studying arbitration systems. This work has had a broad impact outside the fields of labor economics and industrial relations, and it even led to the Ghiselli Award for Research Design from the American Psychological Association.Hank continued to work on a broad range of topics in labor economics after moving to Princeton University, making many fundamental contributions. Over the longer term, his study of employer/employee matching in the labor market and the role this plays in determining how pay is determined by the length of these matches has been a major motivation for much of Hank’s research. His work on job loss, returns to seniority, job flows, and wage dynamics has been extremely influential. This work is all characterized by insightful theory, state-of-the-art econometrics, and exceptional care with data.In the past decade, Hank has been involved in a debate about worker incentives that has been played out in an unusual form: the role of worker preferences among taxi drivers. Taxi drivers are among the last of those who work as free agents who may control the length of time that they work, and they form a special case where debates about incentives have been playing out for over a decade or more. Farber has illuminated and elevated this debate to so high a level that his may well be the last word on it.Hank’s contributions to the field of labor economics go well beyond his impressive scholarship. Starting with his tenure at MIT and extending to his time at Princeton, Hank has mentored an army of scholars who have created a whole new body of scholarship. Like Jacob Mincer, for whom this award is named, Hank has also been especially important as a mentor for women in the economics profession.Hank has been very active in the Society of Labor Economists and is always willing to lend a helping hand to younger or less established scholars. He has been on the editorial board (or associate editor) of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the American Economic Review.On several occasions Hank has served as director of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. He is known for his collegiality and the breadth of his friendships there.The influence of Hank’s academic accomplishments, the wide nature of his interests, the clarity of his writing, and the rigor of his work make him a natural recipient of the Jacob Mincer Award for a lifetime of contributions to labor economics.2018 Jacob Mincer Award Nominating Committee:John M. AbowdMarianne BertrandKerwin CharlesJohn HaltiwangerMarjorie McElroy (ex officio)Chris Taber (chair)Robert Willis Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Labor Economics Volume 36, Number 3July 2018 Published for the Society of Labor Economists, Economics Research Center/ NORC Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/698833 © 2018 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Review and critical appraisal of studies mapping from quality of life or clinical measures to EQ-5D: an online database and application of the MAPS statement

BackgroundThe Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) Database of Mapping Studies was established in 2013, based on a systematic review of studies developing mapping algorithms predicting EQ-5D. The Mapping onto Preference-based measures reporting Standards (MAPS) statement was published in 2015 to improve reporting of mapping studies. We aimed to update the systematic review and assess the extent to which recently-published studies mapping condition-specific quality of life or clinical measures to the EQ-5D follow the guidelines published in the MAPS Reporting Statement.MethodsA published systematic review was updated using the original inclusion criteria to include studies published by December 2016. We included studies reporting novel algorithms mapping from any clinical measure or patient-reported quality of life measure to either the EQ-5D-3L or EQ-5D-5L. Titles and abstracts of all identified studies and the full text of papers published in 2016 were assessed against the MAPS checklist.ResultsThe systematic review identified 144 mapping studies reporting 190 algorithms mapping from 110 different source instruments to EQ-5D. Of the 17 studies published in 2016, nine (53%) had titles that followed the MAPS statement guidance, although only two (12%) had abstracts that fully addressed all MAPS items. When the full text of these papers was assessed against the complete MAPS checklist, only two studies (12%) were found to fulfil or partly fulfil all criteria. Of the 141 papers (across all years) that included abstracts, the items on the MAPS statement checklist that were fulfilled by the largest number of studies comprised having a structured abstract (95%) and describing target instruments (91%) and source instruments (88%).ConclusionsThe number of published mapping studies continues to increase. Our updated database provides a convenient way to identify mapping studies for use in cost-utility analysis. Most recent studies do not fully address all items on the MAPS checklist.

Introduction: Firms and the Distribution of Income: The Roles of Productivity and Luck

Previous articleNext article No AccessIntroduction: Firms and the Distribution of Income: The Roles of Productivity and LuckEdward P. Lazear and Kathryn L. ShawEdward P. LazearStanford University Search for more articles by this author and Kathryn L. ShawStanford University Search for more articles by this author Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Labor Economics Volume 36, Number S1January 2018Firms and the Distribution of Income: The Roles of Productivity and Luck Published for the Society of Labor Economists, Economics Research Center/ NORC Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/694914 Views: 1189Total views on this site © 2018 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Fetal Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Colonial Korea and Human Capital Development

Research reported in this article was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2016S1A3A2924944), the Institute of Economic Research (Center for Distributive Justice) at Seoul National University, and Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2014-KFR-123001).

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On the Macroeconomic Causes of Exchange Rate Volatility: The Case of Tunisia

Abstract: The modeling of the dynamics of the exchange rate at a long time remains a financial and economic research center. In our research we tried to study the relationship between the evolution of exchange rates and macroeconomic fundamentals. Our empirical study is based on a series of exchange rates for the Tunisian dinar against three currencies of major trading partners (dollar, euro, yen) and fundamentals (the terms of trade, the inflation rate, the interest rate differential), of monthly data, from jan 2000 to dec-2014, for the case of  Tunisia. We have adopted models of conditional heteroscedasticity (ARCH, GARCH, EGARCH, TGARCH). The results indicate that there is a partial relationship between the evolution of the Tunisian dinar exchange rates and macroeconomic variables.Keywords: exchange rate, fundamental macroeconomic variables, conditional heteroskedasticity models.