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Volume 179, issue 4, 2016

Preface to the papers on ‘health econometrics’ pp. 883-884

Arnaud Chevalier, F. Moscone and J. Mullahy

Do market incentives for hospitals affect health and service utilization?: evidence from prospective pay system–diagnosis-related groups tariffs in Italian regions pp. 885-905

Lorenzo Cappellari, Anna De Paoli and Gilberto Turati

The association between asymmetric information, hospital competition and quality of healthcare: evidence from Italy pp. 907-926

Paolo Berta, Gianmaria Martini, Francesco Moscone and Giorgio Vittadini

Healthcare facility choice and user fee abolition: regression discontinuity in a multinomial choice setting pp. 927-950

Steven Koch and Jeffrey Racine

A quasi-Monte-Carlo comparison of parametric and semiparametric regression methods for heavy-tailed and non-normal data: an application to healthcare costs pp. 951-974

Andrew Jones, James Lomas, Peter T. Moore and Nigel Rice

Phantoms never die: living with unreliable population data pp. 975-1005

Andrew J. G. Cairns, David Blake, Kevin Dowd and Amy R. Kessler

Integrated modelling of age and sex patterns of European migration pp. 1007-1024

Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, Jonathan J. Forster, Peter W. F. Smith, Jakub Bijak and James Raymer

The stability of ethnic identity in England and Wales 2001–2011 pp. 1025-1049

Ludi Simpson, Stephen Jivraj and James Warren

Short- and long-run estimates of the local effects of retirement on health pp. 1051-1067

Eduardo Fé and Bruce Hollingsworth

Using auto-regressive logit models to forecast the exceedance probability for financial risk management pp. 1069-1092

James W. Taylor and Keming Yu

Reconsidering the effect of family size on labour supply: the twin problems of the twin birth instrument pp. 1093-1115

Nils Braakmann and John Wildman

Mathematical Statistics: Basic Ideas and Selected Topics, 2nd edn, vols I and II P. J. Bickel and K. A. Doksum, 2015 Boca Raton, Chapman and Hall–CRC xxii + 548 pp., $99.95 (vol. I); 438 pp., $99.95 (vol. II) ISBN 978-1-498-72380-0 pp. 1128-1129

Darryl Neil Penenberg

Statistical Analysis and Data Display: an Intermediate Course with Examples in R, 2nd edn R. M. Heiberger and B. Holland, 2015 New York, Springer xxxii + 898 pp., $79.99 ISBN 978-1-493-92122-5 pp. 1129-1130

Shalabh

Handbook of Cluster Analysis C. Hennig, M. Meila, F. Murtagh and R. Rocci (eds), 2016 Boca Raton, CRC Press 754 pp., £61.59 (hardbound), £53.89 (e-book) ISBN 978-1-466-55188-6 pp. 1130-1130

Mark Pilling

Analysis of Panel Data, 3rd edn C. Hsiao, 2014 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 562 pp., $49.99 ISBN 978-1-107-03860-1 (hardbound), 978-1-107-65763-2 paperbound pp. 1130-1131

Anoop Chaturvedi

Statistical Rethinking: a Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan R. McElreath, 2015 Boca Raton Chapman and Hall–CRC 470 pp., £60.99 ISBN 978-1-482-25344-3 pp. 1131-1132

Paul Hewson

Statistics and Data Analysis for Financial Engineering, 2nd edn D. Ruppert and D. S. Matteson, 2015 New York, Springer 720 pp., £ 52.99 ISBN 978-1-493-92613-8 pp. 1132-1133

Sebastian Dietz

Circular Statistics in R A. Pewsey, M. Neuhäuser and G. D. Ruxton, 2013 Oxford, Oxford University Press 184 pp., £ 24.99 ISBN 978-0-199-67113-7 pp. 1132-1132

Nando Lewis

Volume 179, issue 3, 2016

Editorial: ‘Big data’ and data sharing pp. 629-631

David J. Hand

Political socialization in flux?: linking family non-intactness during childhood to adult civic engagement pp. 633-656

Timo Hener, Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

Behind and beyond the (head count) employment rate pp. 657-681

Andrea Brandolini and Eliana Viviano

A comparison of multiple-imputation methods for handling missing data in repeated measurements observational studies pp. 683-706

Oya Kalaycioglu, Andrew Copas, Michael King and Rumana Z. Omar

Mothers' long-run career patterns after first birth pp. 707-725

Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, Christoph Pamminger, Andrea Weber and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Does more balanced survey response imply less non-response bias? pp. 727-748

Barry Schouten, Fannie Cobben, Peter Lundquist and James Wagner

Olley–Pakes productivity decomposition: computation and inference pp. 749-761

Ari Hyytinen, Pekka Ilmakunnas and Mika Maliranta

Small area estimation with state space common factor models for rotating panels pp. 763-791

Jan A. Brakel and Sabine Krieg

Sequence analysis of call record data: exploring the role of different cost settings pp. 793-808

Mark Hanly, Paul Clarke and Fiona Steele

Born leaders: political selection and the relative age effect in the US Congress pp. 809-829

Daniel Müller and Lionel Page

The effect of private police on crime: evidence from a geographic regression discontinuity design pp. 831-846

John M. MacDonald, Jonathan Klick and Ben Grunwald

J-divergence measurements of economic inequality pp. 847-870

Nicholas Rohde

A Certain Uncertainty: Nature's Random Ways M. P. Silverman 2014 Cambridge Cambridge University Press xvi + 618 pp., €175.00 ISBN 978-1-107-03281-1 pp. 878-879

Kuldeep Kumar

Data Analysis for Network Cyber-security N. Adams N. Heard eds 2014 London Imperial College Press 188 pp £65.00 ISBN 978-1-783-26374-5 pp. 878-878

Sebastian Dietz

Probability and Statistics by Example 1: Basic Probability and Statistics Y. Suhov M. Kelbert 2014 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 470 pp., $84.99 ISBN 978-1-107-60358-5 pp. 879-880

Shalabh

Graphical Data Analysis with R A. Unwin 2015 Boca Raton CRC Press xiv + 296 pp., $44.99 ISBN 978-1-498-71523-2 pp. 880-880

Andrey Kostenko

Exposure–Response Modeling Methods and Practical Implementation J. Wang 2015 Boca Raton CRC Press xviii + 312 pp., $89.46 ISBN 978-1-466-57320-8 pp. 881-882

Darryl Neil Penenberg

Volume 179, issue 2, 2016

Perils and potentials of self-selected entry to epidemiological studies and surveys pp. 319-376

Niels Keiding and Thomas A. Louis

Multivariate state space approach to variance reduction in series with level and variance breaks due to survey redesigns pp. 377-402

Oksana Bollineni-Balabay, Jan Brakel and Franz Palm

Mixed frequency structural vector auto-regressive models pp. 403-425

Claudia Foroni and Massimiliano Marcellino

Longitudinal analysis of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire scores of the Millennium Cohort Study children in England using M-quantile random-effects regression pp. 427-452

Nikos Tzavidis, Nicola Salvati, Timo Schmid, Eirini Flouri and Emily Midouhas

Semiparametric small area estimation for binary outcomes with application to unemployment estimation for local authorities in the UK pp. 453-479

Ray Chambers, Nicola Salvati and Nikos Tzavidis

What matters in differences between life trajectories: a comparative review of sequence dissimilarity measures pp. 481-511

Matthias Studer and Gilbert Ritschard

Beyond completion rate: evaluating the passing ability of footballers pp. 513-533

Łukasz Szczepański and Ian McHale

Persistent poverty and children's cognitive development: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study pp. 535-558

Andrew Dickerson and Gurleen Popli

Survey instruments and the reports of consumption expenditures: evidence from the consumer expenditure surveys pp. 559-581

Erich Battistin and Mario Padula

Determining the effect of strategic voting on election results pp. 583-605

Michael Herrmann, Simon Munzert and Peter Selb

Consequences of measurement error for inference in cross-lagged panel design—the example of the reciprocal causal relationship between subjective health and socio-economic status pp. 607-628

Hannes Kröger, Rasmus Hoffmann and Eduwin Pakpahan

Volume 179, issue 1, 2016

Statistical modelling of citation exchange between statistics journals pp. 1-63

Cristiano Varin, Manuela Cattelan and David Firth

Forecasting distributions of inflation rates: the functional auto-regressive approach pp. 65-102

Kausik Chaudhuri, Minjoo Kim and Yongcheol Shin

A hierarchical latent class model for predicting disability small area counts from survey data pp. 103-131

Enrico Fabrizi, Giorgio E. Montanari and M. Giovanna Ranalli

Detecting discrimination: a dynamic perspective pp. 133-152

Konstantinos Tzioumis

Analysing behavioural risk factor surveillance data by using spatially and temporally varying coefficient models pp. 153-175

Shireen Assaf, Stefano Campostrini, Fang Xu and Carol Gotway Crawford

A Bayesian quantile regression model for insurance company costs data pp. 177-202

Karthik Sriram, Peng Shi and Pulak Ghosh

Subjective wellbeing: why weather matters pp. 203-228

John Feddersen, Robert Metcalfe and Mark Wooden

Small area estimation to quantify discontinuities in repeated sample surveys pp. 229-250

Jan A. Brakel, Bart Buelens and Harm-Jan Boonstra

A simple variance estimator of change for rotating repeated surveys: an application to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions household surveys pp. 251-272

Y. G. Berger and R. Priam

Police and thieves in the stadium: measuring the (multiple) effects of football matches on crime pp. 273-292

Olivier Marie

Spatially modelling the association between access to recreational facilities and exercise: the ‘Multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis’ pp. 293-310

Samuel I. Berchuck, Joshua L. Warren, Amy H. Herring, Kelly R. Evenson, Kari A. B. Moore, Yamini K. Ranchod and Ana V. Diez-Roux

Obituaries pp. 311-318

Julian Champkin, Lord Layard and Steven Gilmour