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1. “Organizzazione dell’assistenza ospedaliera: analisi dell’efficienza delle aziende ospedaliere e dei presidi ospedalieri”
No full textMeasuring equity in health: a normative decomposition
No full textThis paper proposes a new approach to the measurement of equality of
opportunity in health, based on the path independent Atkinson index of
equality. The proposed decomposition is applied both to the ex-ante and
the ex-post methodologies recently adopted by the literature. The approach is applied to the measurement of equality of opportunity in health
using ten waves of the British Household Panel Survey. Results confirm
that socioeconomic background is an important factor determining individual health in adulthood while the incidence of equality of opportunity is
around one third of the overall equality according to a substantial stable
pattern over years. Our findings also depict that differences in education, in social conditions and in the life style are crucial determinants
of the shape of the observed health equalities in adulthood, explaining
how potential differences can be derived by the combination of different
circumstances
Public debt, inequality and economic growth
Full text linkThe project aims to bring attention to wealth inequality, an aspect often neglected in empirical analyses due to a lack of adequate data. Taking advantage of recent advances, particularly for the United States, I extended a study traditionally focused on income distribution to the link between public debt and wealth inequality. Considering the strong link between wealth and public debt, mediated by government bonds and portfolio choices, I explored the interdependence between these two phenomena.
For the analysis, I used the VEC model, which allows us to examine both short- and long-run dynamics, testing causality and transmission mechanisms between variables. Moreover, since there was no suitable package in R for this type of analysis, I developed a specific tool. A chapter of the project was dedicated to the description of the package: structure, main functionalities and comparison with other existing tools.
The results of the analysis show that there is a link from public debt to wealth inequality, but not the other way around. However, indirect forms of interdependence emerge through fiscal policy choices. Moreover, the long-run relationship between public debt and inequality proves to be significant, profoundly influencing the latter.
A second empirical study, conducted as part of the project, focused on two objectives: analysing the impact of income distribution on economic growth; investigating the impact of debt distribution on the distribution of income; and analysing the impact of debt distribution on the distribution of wealth.
The results show that inequality within the three segments into which the income distribution was divided has a negative impact on growth. In contrast, inequality between the segments has a positive effect. The whole inequality. Overall inequality, on the other hand, impacts negatively on the income growth of the poorer population, and positively on the richer population
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Crescita demografica ed economica in un modello con investimento in capitale umano e progresso tecnico endogeno
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