Costs and benefits of employment transportation for low-wage workers: an assessment of job access public transportation services.

This paper focuses on an evaluation of public transportation-based employment transportation (ET) services to transport low-wage workers to jobs in the US. We make an attempt to capture a more comprehensive range of intended and unintended outcomes of ET services than those traditionally considered in the case of public transportation services. Using primary data from 23 locations across the country, we present a framework to evaluate how transportation improvements, in interaction with labor markets, can affect users' short-run economic welfare, users' long-run human capital accumulation and non-users' short-run economic welfare.

Use of the radial forearm free tissue flap to treat persistent stricture after esophagogastrectomy.

Background: Persistent stricturing or anastomotic leakage at the cervical esophagogastric anastomosis can be a troublesome complication of gastric pull-up procedures. When the stricture is the result of ischemia of the stomach, the strictures are long and often not responsive to dilatation and require large operations such as jejunal interposition or replacement with colonic pull-up. In this report we describe the use of a radial forearm flap to patch strictures.

Transition from open to laparoscopic fundoplication: the learning curve.

Background: Two of us (B.C.S.

Comparison of outcomes of open versus laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication performed in a single practice.

Background: We reviewed Nissen fundoplications performed in a single practice from January 1989 to March 1997, encompassing our transition from open to laparoscopic procedures. Because all operations were done by two surgeons in the same two hospitals, the study is well controlled for comparisons.

Methods: Records of 271 consecutive patients were reviewed.