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Financing and Funding Health Care: Optimal Policy and Political Implementability
Nuscheler, Robert; Roeder, Kerstin - CESifo - 2014
Health care financing and funding are usually analyzed in isolation. This paper combines the corresponding strands of the literature and thereby advances our understanding of the important interaction between them. We investigate the impact of three modes of health care financing, namely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812491
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The Welfare Effects of Health-based Food Tax Policy
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Härkänen, Tommi; Pietinen, Pirjo; … - CESifo - 2011
This paper examines the effects of health-oriented food tax reforms on the distribution of tax payments, food demand and health outcomes. Unlike earlier work, we also take into account the uncertainty related to both demand estimation and health estimates and report the confidence intervals for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371340
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - CESifo - 2014
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients’ right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877767
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Supplementary Private Health Insurance in Selected Countries: Lessons for EU Governments?
Gechert, Sebastian - CESifo - 2009
A famous idea to maintain affordable health expenditures is to cut back statutory health insurance (SHI) to a basic insurance and to introduce supplementary private health insurance (PHI), permitted to cover the remaining benefits and to apply managed care mechanisms. The measure is supposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005010152
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Universal Coverage on a Budget: Impacts on Health Care Utilization and Out-Of-Pocket Expenditures in Thailand
Limwattananon, Supon; Neelsen, Sven; O'Donnell, Owen; … - CESifo - 2013
We estimate the impact on health care utilization and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of a major reform in Thailand that extended health insurance to one-quarter of the population to achieve universal coverage while keeping health spending below 4% of GDP. Identification is through comparison...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010665044
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Demand Patterns for Treatment Insurance in Norway
Aarbu, Karl Ove - CESifo - 2010
In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private health care market. These health care services are obtained normally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583686
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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - CESifo - 2013
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877909
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Demographic Change and Public Sector Budgets in a Federal System
Hofmann, Michael; Kempkes, Gerhard; Seitz, Helmut - CESifo - 2008
This paper examines the effects of demographic change on public finances in a federal system. We develop a simple methodical procedure to measure the effect of demographic changes on public revenues and expenditures. We apply our method to the local, state and federal government sector as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013041
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Ageing Municipalities, Gerontocracy and Fiscal Competition
Montén, Anna; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2008
We develop a simple model of fiscal competition among ageing municipalities. When ageing advances, gerontocracies and social planners gradually substitute publicly provided goods aimed at the mobile young population for publicly provided goods for the elderly. Thissubstitution process does not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181306
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Demographic Change and Regional Labour Markets: The Case of Eastern Germany
Henschel, Beate; Pohl, Carsten; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2008
Demographic change will be one of the most challenging issues for industrialized economies in the decades to come. In this paper, we focus on the impact of demographic change on labour markets. By setting up a stylized model of a regional labour market, we are able to analyze the interaction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405965