Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

Genetic interactions arise when the joint effect of alleles at two or more loci on a phenotype departs from simply adding up the effects of the alleles at each locus. Many examples of such ...

Companies use variance analysis to compare financial performance changes from one month to the next, or perhaps from one quarter to another or year to year. Typically, actual financial results are ...

Laurence C. Baker is a professor of health research and policy at Stanford University, in California, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Health care spending in the months before death varies across geographic areas but is not associated with outcomes. Using data from the prospective multiregional Cancer Care Outcomes Research and ...

Vol. 1, No. 2/3, Papers and Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (Apr. - May, 2003), pp. 387-396 (10 pages) We use development accounting techniques to ...