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The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
Ferranna, Maddalena; Robinson, Lisa A.; Cadarette, Daniel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-related benefits that would have accrued if these vaccination requirements had been implemented as intended. Compared with the … vaccination rates observed in January 2022, we find that the mandates could have led to 15 million additional vaccinated … policymakers. In scenarios involving the emergence of a novel, more transmissible variant, against which vaccination and previous …
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Options for Benchmarking Infrastructure Performance
Pisu, Mauro; Hoeller, Peter; Joumard, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Three main approaches can be used to assess infrastructure performance. The first employs macro-econometric techniques to estimate the impact of the existing infrastructure capital stock on growth and to infer its growth-maximising level. This approach neglects the impact of infrastructure on...
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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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Economic assessment and valuations of environmental and health impacts caused by Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and its salts
Gabbert, Silke - 2018
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is being used in fluoropolymer production, as surface treatment agents and for the manufacture of side-chain fluorinated polymers. However, there is evidence that PFOA and its salts have a number of hazardous properties that may cause harm to human health and the...
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Chapter Eight. Cost Effectiveness and Payment Policy
Garber, Alan M.; Sculpher, Mark J. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 471-497). 2011
Cost-effectiveness analysis is versatile and used widely to assist in health care decision making. This chapter discusses how cost-effectiveness analysis is used at the system or national level, particularly in the domain of coverage and payment policy. We describe its relationship to other...
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Options for benchmarking infrastructure performance
Pisu, Mauro; Höller, Peter; Joumard, Isabelle - 2012
Three main approaches can be used to assess infrastructure performance. The first employs macro-econometric techniques to estimate the impact of the existing infrastructure capital stock on growth and to infer its growth-maximising level. This approach neglects the impact of infrastructure on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690144
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The performance of road transport infrastructure and its links to policies
Braconier, Henrik; Pisu, Mauro; Bloch, Debra - 2013
Despite the economic importance of the road transport sector, there is no systematic cross-country evidence on the sector’s efficiency. This paper develops a conceptual framework for analysing the social efficiency of the road transport sector, including non-market inputs – such as travel...
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The Performance of Road Transport Infrastructure and its Links to Policies
Braconier, Henrik; Pisu, Mauro; Bloch, Debra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Despite the economic importance of the road transport sector, there is no systematic cross-country evidence on the sector’s efficiency. This paper develops a conceptual framework for analysing the social efficiency of the road transport sector, including non-market inputs – such as travel...
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Chapter 6 Reciprocity: Its Scope, Rationales, and Consequences
Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 371-541). 2006
Reciprocity is one of the main basic social relations that constitute societies. It consists of being favourable to others because others are favourable to you (and not from an exchange in the strict sense). It rests on three possible rationales: (1) balance (comparison, matching), often related...
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
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