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Can Insurance Reduce Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure?

Joglekar, Rama - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

In India, the out-of-pocket health expenditure by households accounts for around 70 percent of the total expenditure on … health. Large out-of-pocket payments may reduce consumption expenditure on other goods and services and push households into … poverty. Recently, health insurance has been considered as one of the possible instruments in reducing impoverishing effects …

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EARNINGS EFFECTS OF HOUSEHOLD INVESTMENT IN HEALTH IN COLOMBIA.

Ribero, R. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

This study considers the links between primary indicators of health and individual labor productivity in Colombia and … explores how additional public expenditures on health may improve individuals' health. Sample statistics how that illness …

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The Private Demand for Information and the Effects of Public Testing Programs: The Case of HIV.

Boozer, M.; Philipson, T. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of private HIV information on sexual activity showing how the private information provided by a public testing program would change the allocation of information generated in absence o fthe program.

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Wage and Labor Supply effects of Illness in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana : Instrumental Variable Estimates for Days Disabled

Schultz, T-P - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

used to improve health? Self-reported functional activity limitation due to illness is considered as an indicator of … instrumental variable estimation approach is used where local food prices and health services instrument for disability days that …

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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...

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The Tradeoff Between Redistribution and Effort: Evidence from the Field and from the Lab

Buch, Claudia M.; Engel, Christoph - CESifo - 2012

Building on a theoretical model we test the hypothesis that effort choices and preferences for redistribution are simultaneously determined. Using cross-country panel data from the World Value Survey, we find that it is important to model preferences for redistribution and effort choices...

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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2013

This paper provides a model of “social hysteresis,” whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment...

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Trade and Human Rights

Srinivasan, T-N - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

The paper analyzes the moral, philosophiacal and economic arguments for and against linking trade and human rights. It finds that while claims of universality of labour standards are overblown, addressing the legitimate concerns that citizens of one country may have about what they deem "poor"...

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Happiness of Economists

Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah; Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2014

We study the importance of economists’ professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively related to spending more time on doing research. The lack...

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Afriat's Theorem for Indivisible Goods

Forges, Francoise; Iehlé, Vincent - CESifo - 2013

We identify a natural counterpart of the standard GARP for demand data in which goods are all indivisible. We show that the new axiom (DARP, for “discrete axiom of revealed preference”) is necessary and sufficient for the rationalization of the data by a well-behaved utility function. Our...

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