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Health system trust and compliance with Covid-19 restrictions

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2023

We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST … the costs of complying with COVID-19 restrictions, but only so long as excess mortality does not exceed the average by …

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The "welcomed lockdown" hypothesis : when do mobility restrictions influence mental wellbeing?

Costa-Font, Joan; Knapp, Martin; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2022

anxiety and depression are explained by mortality and stringency of lockdown measures using ad event study that draws on … lockdown took effect. However, such effects are wiped out when a country exhibits high mortality ('pandemic category 5'). Hence …, we conclude that in an environment of high mortality, lockdowns no longer give rise to a reduction in well …

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Mobility restrictions and alcohol use during lockdown : "a still and dry pandemic for the many"?

Celidoni, Martina; Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2023

Unexpected mobility disruptions during lockdown during the first wave of COVID-19 became 'tipping points' with the potential to alter pre-pandemic routines sensitive to socialisation. This paper investigates the impact of lockdown exposure on alcohol consumption. We document two findings using...

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Too healthy to fall sick? : longevity expectations and protective health behaviours during the first wave of Covid-19

Celidoni, Martina; Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2022

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health depends more than ever on such protective decisions. This...

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Divided we survive? : multi-level governance and policy uncertainty during the first wave of Covid-19

Angelici, Marta; Berta, Paolo; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2021

emergency hospital admissions, and mortality in the two countries, both at the national and at the regional level. We then …

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Measuring health inequality with categorical data : some regional patterns

Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2013

Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional solutions involve reclassifying the variable by means of...

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The measurement of health inequalities : does status matter?

Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2016

The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequalitymeasurement tools to a health variable that is non-continuous or, in many cases, categorical. However, these...

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Biased survival expectations and behaviours : does domain specific information matter?

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2021 - This version: January 2022

We study biased survival expectations across two domains and examine whether such biased expectations influence health and financial behaviors. Combining individual-level longitudinal data, retrospective, and end of life data from several European countries for more than a decade, we estimate...

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"More than one red herring"? : heterogeneous effects of ageing on healthcare utilisation

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2020

We study the effect of ageing, defined an extra year of life, on health care utilisation. We disentangle the direct effect of ageing, from other alternative explanations such as the presence of comorbidities and endogenous time to death (TTD) that are argued to absorb the effect of ageing...

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Thinking of incentivizing care? : the effect of demand subsidies on informal caregiving and intergenerational transfers

Costa-Font, Joan; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Vilaplana … - 2016

We still know little about what motivates the informal care arrangements provided in old age. The introduction of demand-side subsidies such as unconditional caregiving allowances (cash benefits designed either to incentivize the provision of informal care, or compensate for the loss of...

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