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Christopher J. O'Donnell

Researcher at VA Boston Healthcare System

Publications -  914
Citations -  140860

Christopher J. O'Donnell is an academic researcher from VA Boston Healthcare System. The author has contributed to research in topics: Framingham Heart Study & Genome-wide association study. The author has an hindex of 159, co-authored 869 publications receiving 126278 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher J. O'Donnell include Brown University & Veterans Health Administration.

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Nonparametric Estimates Of The Components Of Productivity And Profitability Change In U.S. Agriculture

TL;DR: In this paper, a decomposition of the TFP index can be further decomposed into an index of technical change and various indexes of efficiency change, which can be unambiguously interpreted as measures of either technical change or efficiency change.
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Does Excluding Cross-commodity Interactions Matter? Beef and Lamb in Australia

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of exogenous demand and supply shifters on the wholesale-farm price ratio in two closely related industries, beef and lamb, are examined in a Gardner type of model and the effect of excluding consideration of the cross-commodity interactions is measured.
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Genetic loci associated with prevalent and incident myocardial infarction and coronary heart disease in the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium

TL;DR: This study confirmed previously reported loci influencing heart disease risk, and one single variant and three genes associated with MI and CHD were newly identified and warrant future investigation.
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Deterministic Frontier Analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explain how to estimate and draw inferences concerning the unknown parameters in so-called deterministic frontier models (DFMs) and how the estimated parameters can be used to predict levels of efficiency and analyse productivity change.