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What is the Domain of the Welfare State?
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - CESifo - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167139
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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform
Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Unlike …’s welfare accounts. The government could redistribute income across people’s welfare accounts, but these redistributions would …, cushioning people against economic risk, ensuring efficient provision of health and education services, providing social safety …
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