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Dynamics of health insurance ownership in Vietnam, 2004 – 06

Nguyen, Trong-Ha; Leung, Suiwah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

health insurance determinants show significant adverse selection in the current health insurance system where individuals … suggest that the current health insurance system entails significant adverse selection where people with worse health are more …Vietnam is undertaking health financing reform in an attempt to achieve universal health insurance coverage by 2014 …

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The Economics of a Two Tier Health System: A Fairer Medicare?

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray; Savage, Elizabeth - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004

models of the physician’s behaviour and of a household’s demand for medical insurance under the proposed system, and then …

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Bargaining Over Labor: Do Patients have any Power?

Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Using data on births from Australia, we estimate the level of patient bargaining power in negotiations over birth timing. In doing so, we exploit the fact that parents do not like to have children born on the “inauspicious” dates of February 29 and April 1. We show that, in general, the...

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The Value of Don Bradman: Additional Revenue in Australian Ashes Tests

Blackham, Julian; Chapman, Bruce - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004

One way to understand the value of sporting ‘superstars’ is to examine the effect they have on match attendances and revenue. Arguably, the most famous sports star in Australia was Sir Donald Bradman, whose batting average has far exceeded that of any cricket players. This paper examines the...

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Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Local Consumer Markets: Exploiting the Army’s Procedures for Matching Personnel to Duty Locations

Clark, Deborah A. Cobb; Antecol, Heather - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

We use the exogenous assignment of Army personnel to duty locations to analyze the relationship between the characteristics of local markets and the propensity for consumers to be subjected to racial discrimination in their everyday commercial transactions. Overall, one in ten soldiers report...

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Pricing above value : selling to a market with selection problems

Boone, Jan - In: Journal of health economics 94 (2024), pp. 1-9

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Estimating Teacher Effectiveness From Two-Year Changes in Students’ Test Scores

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

Using a dataset covering over 10,000 Australian primary school teachers and over 90,000 pupils, I estimate how effective teachers are in raising students’ test scores from one exam to the next. Since the exams are conducted only every two years, it is necessary to take account of the...

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Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated : evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Humlum, Maria Knoth; Morthorst, Marius Opstrup; … - In: Journal of health economics 94 (2024), pp. 1-23

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Aversion to health inequality : pure, income-related and income-caused

Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - In: Journal of health economics 94 (2024), pp. 1-20

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Quality- and productivity-adjusted life years : from QALYs to PALYs and beyond

Hansen, Kristian S.; Moreno-Ternero, Juan D.; … - In: Journal of health economics 95 (2024), pp. 1-19

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