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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …
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A Theoretical Analysis of the Effects of Legislation on Marriage, Fertility, Domestic Division of Labour, and the Education of Children
Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2007
Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical … developing countries are concerned since that date. The model provides a gender-neutral explanation of why girls in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406405
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Retiree Health Insurance for Public School Employees: Does it Affect Retirement?
Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - CESifo - 2013
Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced “job-lock” in the private sector. I use the introduction of...
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Health Values, Preference Inconsistency, and Insurance Demand
Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2005
Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people’s attitudes towards health and medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health state as a point of reference and builds a model...
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Efficient Transfer of Aging Provisions in Private Health Insurance
Meier, Volker - CESifo - 2003
In long-term private health insurance contracts, aging provisions are used to flatten premium profiles. An individual would like to change insurers if she perceives a low service quality. The first-best optimum is characterized by provision transfers which are higher for high risks and may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406102
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Transferable Ageing Provisions in Individual Health Insurance Contracts
Baumann, Florian; Meier, Volker; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2004
We consider lifetime health insurance contracts in which ageing provisions are used to smooth the premium profile. The stock of capital accumulated for each individual can be split into two parts: a premium insurance and an annuitised life insurance, where the latter would be transferable...
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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...
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Do Cost-sharing and Entry Deregulation Curb Pharmaceutical Innovation?
Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2011
This paper examines the role of both cost-sharing schemes in health insurance systems and entry regulation for pharmaceutical R&D expenditure, drug prices, aggregate productivity, and income. The analysis suggests that both an increase in the coinsurance rate and stricter price regulations...
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Job Lock: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Fairlie, Robert W.; Kapur, Kanika; Gates, Susane - CESifo - 2015
Employer-provided health insurance may restrict job mobility, resulting in “job lock.” Previous research on job lock finds mixed results using several methodologies. We take a new approach to examine job-lock by exploiting the discontinuity created at age 65 through the qualification for...
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Development versus Legacy: The Relative Role of Development and Historical Legacies in Achieving Gender Equality
Dilli, Selin; Rijpma, Auke; Carmichael, Sarah - CESifo - 2013
Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …
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