Jonathan Skinner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Skinner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Skinner |
| SIGNATURE | SKINNER J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Human Nature as Capacity
What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring "the human" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor, not on the basis of the substance of a human nature - "To be human is to act like this and react like this, to feel …
Collaborations
The Interview
Interview
Most Humanistic, Most Scientific
The suggestion that ‘Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities’ is generally attributed to the renowned American cultural anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. The integrated BSc Anthropology degree was developed in 2010 by Professors Ann Maclarnon and Garry Marvin, primarily as a response to the existing combined honours degrees in Social Anthropology and Biological Anthropology taught on different ca…
ICD-10 Coding Will Challenge Researchers
BACKGROUND: The October 1, 2015 US health care diagnosis and procedure codes update, from the 9th to 10th version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), abruptly changed the structure, number, and diversity of codes in health care administrative data. Translation from ICD-9 to ICD-10 risks introducing artificial changes in claims-based measures of health and health services. OBJECTIVE: Using published ICD-9 and ICD-10 definitions …
Leisure and Death
Interdisciplinary study of dark tourism that examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practice is used to meditate upon and mediate life. Grounded in international anthropological case studies, the authors theorize on the links between spaces of death and leisure"--Provided by publisher
Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care
We draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to explain empirical patterns of survival gains in heart attacks. Using Medicare data for 2.8 million patients during 1986-2004, we find that hospitals rapidly adopting cost-effective innovations such as beta blockers, aspirin, and reperfusion, had substantially better outcomes for their patients. Holding technology adoption constant, the marginal returns to spending were relatively mo…
Antibiotic Use in Cold and Flu Season and Prescribing Quality
BACKGROUND: Excessive antibiotic use in cold and flu season is costly and contributes to antibiotic resistance. The study objective was to develop an index of excessive antibiotic use in cold and flu season and determine its correlation with other indicators of prescribing quality. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We included Medicare beneficiaries in the 40% random sample denominator file continuously enrolled in fee-for-service benefits for 2010 or 2011 (…
Great Expectations
The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process – one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of tourists, but also their hosts, and play an important part in the success or failure of the overall tourism experience. It is for this reason, the authors argue, that special attention should be given to how expectations constitute and sustain tourism…
Measuring Racial Disparities in the Quality of Ambulatory Diabetes Care
BACKGROUND: Improving the health of minority patients who have diabetes depends in part on improving quality and reducing disparities in ambulatory care. It has been difficult to measure these components at the level of actionable units. OBJECTIVE: To measure ambulatory care quality and racial disparities in diabetes care across groups of physicians who care for populations of ambulatory diabetes patients. RESEARCH DESIGN: Prospective cohort anal…
Do the Rich Save More
The question of whether higherlifetime income households save a larger fraction of their income was the subject of much debate in the 1950s and 1960s, and while not resolved, it remains central to the evaluation of tax and macroeconomic policies. We resolve this long-standing question using new empirical methods applied to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the Survey of Consumer Finances, and the Consumer Expenditure Survey. We find a strong po…
Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance
This paper argues that a life cycle model can replicate observed patterns in household wealth accumulation after counting explicitly for precautionary saving and asset-based, means-tested social insurance. The authors demonstrate that social insurance programs with means tests based on assets discourage saving by households with low expected lifetime income. In addition, they evaluate the model using a dynamic programming model. Assuming common p…
The Risk and Duration of Catastrophic Health Care Expenditures
Catastrophic medical expenses are an important economic risk facing the elderly. Little is known about the persistence of such out-of-pocket medical costs. We measure the time-series property of medical costs using information on medical deductions from a panel of tax returns. During the period of analysis, 1968-73, taxpayers could deduct medical expenses above 3 percent of income. We correct for the resulting censoring bias using multivariate To…
Variable Lifespan and the Intertemporal Elasticity of Consumption
The focus of the paper is to measure how consumption responds to changes in the interest rate. The equivalence between the effect of the interest rate, and the effect of mortality probabilities, on consumption is used to gain an estimate of the intertemporal elasticity of substitution between current and future consumption. Seemingly unrelated regressions in a cross-sectional model of consumption, earnings, and assets are used to provide efficien…
Do the Rich Save More
The question of whether higherlifetime income households save a larger fraction of their income was the subject of much debate in the 1950s and 1960s, and while not resolved, it remains central to the evaluation of tax and macroeconomic policies. We resolve this long-standing question using new empirical methods applied to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the Survey of Consumer Finances, and the Consumer Expenditure Survey. We find a strong po…
Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance
This paper argues that a life cycle model can replicate observed patterns in household wealth accumulation after counting explicitly for precautionary saving and asset-based, means-tested social insurance. The authors demonstrate that social insurance programs with means tests based on assets discourage saving by households with low expected lifetime income. In addition, they evaluate the model using a dynamic programming model. Assuming common p…
Leisure and Death
Interdisciplinary study of dark tourism that examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practice is used to meditate upon and mediate life. Grounded in international anthropological case studies, the authors theorize on the links between spaces of death and leisure"--Provided by publisher
Human Nature as Capacity
What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring "the human" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor, not on the basis of the substance of a human nature - "To be human is to act like this and react like this, to feel …
Variable Lifespan and the Intertemporal Elasticity of Consumption
The focus of the paper is to measure how consumption responds to changes in the interest rate. The equivalence between the effect of the interest rate, and the effect of mortality probabilities, on consumption is used to gain an estimate of the intertemporal elasticity of substitution between current and future consumption. Seemingly unrelated regressions in a cross-sectional model of consumption, earnings, and assets are used to provide efficien…
The Risk and Duration of Catastrophic Health Care Expenditures
Catastrophic medical expenses are an important economic risk facing the elderly. Little is known about the persistence of such out-of-pocket medical costs. We measure the time-series property of medical costs using information on medical deductions from a panel of tax returns. During the period of analysis, 1968-73, taxpayers could deduct medical expenses above 3 percent of income. We correct for the resulting censoring bias using multivariate To…
Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance
This paper argues that a life cycle model can replicate observed patterns in household wealth accumulation after counting explicitly for precautionary saving and asset-based, means-tested social insurance. The authors demonstrate that social insurance programs with means tests based on assets discourage saving by households with low expected lifetime income. In addition, they evaluate the model using a dynamic programming model. Assuming common p…
Do the Rich Save More
The question of whether higherlifetime income households save a larger fraction of their income was the subject of much debate in the 1950s and 1960s, and while not resolved, it remains central to the evaluation of tax and macroeconomic policies. We resolve this long-standing question using new empirical methods applied to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the Survey of Consumer Finances, and the Consumer Expenditure Survey. We find a strong po…
Measuring Racial Disparities in the Quality of Ambulatory Diabetes Care
BACKGROUND: Improving the health of minority patients who have diabetes depends in part on improving quality and reducing disparities in ambulatory care. It has been difficult to measure these components at the level of actionable units. OBJECTIVE: To measure ambulatory care quality and racial disparities in diabetes care across groups of physicians who care for populations of ambulatory diabetes patients. RESEARCH DESIGN: Prospective cohort anal…
Great Expectations
The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process – one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of tourists, but also their hosts, and play an important part in the success or failure of the overall tourism experience. It is for this reason, the authors argue, that special attention should be given to how expectations constitute and sustain tourism…
Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care
We draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to explain empirical patterns of survival gains in heart attacks. Using Medicare data for 2.8 million patients during 1986-2004, we find that hospitals rapidly adopting cost-effective innovations such as beta blockers, aspirin, and reperfusion, had substantially better outcomes for their patients. Holding technology adoption constant, the marginal returns to spending were relatively mo…
Antibiotic Use in Cold and Flu Season and Prescribing Quality
BACKGROUND: Excessive antibiotic use in cold and flu season is costly and contributes to antibiotic resistance. The study objective was to develop an index of excessive antibiotic use in cold and flu season and determine its correlation with other indicators of prescribing quality. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We included Medicare beneficiaries in the 40% random sample denominator file continuously enrolled in fee-for-service benefits for 2010 or 2011 (…
Leisure and Death
Interdisciplinary study of dark tourism that examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practice is used to meditate upon and mediate life. Grounded in international anthropological case studies, the authors theorize on the links between spaces of death and leisure"--Provided by publisher
ICD-10 Coding Will Challenge Researchers
BACKGROUND: The October 1, 2015 US health care diagnosis and procedure codes update, from the 9th to 10th version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), abruptly changed the structure, number, and diversity of codes in health care administrative data. Translation from ICD-9 to ICD-10 risks introducing artificial changes in claims-based measures of health and health services. OBJECTIVE: Using published ICD-9 and ICD-10 definitions …
Collaborations
The Interview
Interview
Most Humanistic, Most Scientific
The suggestion that ‘Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities’ is generally attributed to the renowned American cultural anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. The integrated BSc Anthropology degree was developed in 2010 by Professors Ann Maclarnon and Garry Marvin, primarily as a response to the existing combined honours degrees in Social Anthropology and Biological Anthropology taught on different ca…
Human Nature as Capacity
What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring "the human" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor, not on the basis of the substance of a human nature - "To be human is to act like this and react like this, to feel …
Medicine (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Emergency Medicine (3 works) · Emergency Medicine (3 works) · Global Health Care Issues (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works)