Isabelle Rossi

This paper investigates the existence of asymmetric equilibria in Malinvaud's [Malinvaud, E., 1973. Markets for an exchange economy with individual risks. Econometrica 41, 383–410] model of a pure exchange economy with individual risks. Agents face identical individual risks. Their utility functions...

The contribution of rectangularization to the secular increase of life expectancy: an empirical study.

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A. Rossi Isabelle et al. (2013)

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BACKGROUND: In low-mortality countries, life expectancy is increasing steadily. This increase can be disentangled into two separate components: the delayed incidence of death (i.e. the rectangularization of the survival curve) and the shift of maximal age at death to the right (i.e. the extension of...

Relation between high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and cardiovascular and renal markers in a middle-income country in the African region.

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Anne Rossi Isabelle et al. (2012)

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BACKGROUND: High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) is associated with several cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) and with renal function markers. However, these associations have not been examined in populations in the African region. We analyzed the distribution of hs-CRP and the relationship...

Gender and socioeconomic disparities in BMI trajectories in the Seychelles using birth cohorts generated from serial population-based surveys.

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A. Rossi Isabelle et al. (2011)

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: BACKGROUND: The relationship between body mass index (BMI) and socioeconomic status (SES) tends to change over time and across populations. In this study, we examined, separately in men and women, whether the association between BMI and SES changed over successive birth cohorts in the Seychelles (...