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Causes, consequences, and policy responses to the migration of health workers: key findings from India
Market Responses to Antidumping Laws: Some Evidence from the U.S. Chemical Industry.
In this paper, the authors provide empirical evidence of the effects of the U.S. antidumping law using monthly product-specific macroeconomic data from the U.S. chemical industry over the 1976-88 period. They analyze import responses, highlighting the differences between allegedly dumped and nondumped import behavior at the various stages of an antidumping investigation. The authors find a wide range of behavioral responses that do not necessarily appear to be dependent upon the final outcome of the investigations and in some cases contradict the 'accepted wisdom' of the impacts these cases have upon import behavior.
Free Riders Among the Rent-Seekers: A Model of Firm Participation in Antidumping Petitions
The SunBEAm birth cohort: Protocol design
Background: Food allergy (FA) and atopic dermatitis (AD) are common conditions that often present in the first year of life. Identification of underlying mechanisms and environmental determinants of FA and AD is essential to develop and implement effective prevention and treatment strategies. Objectives: We sought to describe the design of the Systems Biology of Early Atopy (SunBEAm) birth cohort. Methods: Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and administered through the Consortium for Food Allergy Research (CoFAR), SunBEAm is a US population-based, multicenter birth cohort that enrolls pregnant mothers, fathers, and their newborns and follows them to 3 years. Questionnaire and biosampling strategies were developed to apply a systems biology approach to identify environmental, immunologic, and multiomic determinants of AD, FA, and other allergic outcomes. Results: Enrollment is currently underway. On the basis of an estimated FA prevalence of 6%, the enrollment goal is 2500 infants. AD is defined on the basis of questionnaire and assessment, and FA is defined by an algorithm combining history and testing. Although any FA will be recorded, we focus on the diagnosis of egg, milk, and peanut at 5 months, adding wheat, soy, cashew, hazelnut, walnut, codfish, shrimp, and sesame starting at 12 months. Sampling includes blood, hair, stool, dust, water, tape strips, skin swabs, nasal secretions, nasal swabs, saliva, urine, functional aspects of the skin, and maternal breast milk and vaginal swabs. Conclusions: The SunBEAm birth cohort will provide a rich repository of data and specimens to interrogate mechanisms and determinants of early allergic outcomes, with an emphasis on FA, AD, and systems biology