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their earnings capacity and express an inelastic demand for health care. We assume that illness reduces a person's health …
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.g., children's mobility, changes in family values) generate a mounting demand on the State and on the market to provide …
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Using Belgian microdata, we assess the impact, on a hedonic regression, of the distortions arising from the choice of either a specific zoning system or the delineation of the study area. We also evaluate the biases that arise when spatial effects are not accounted for. Given that the dependent...
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Using a data set of highly cited researchers in all fields of science, we show that the gapin scientific performance between Europe, especially continental Europe, and the USAis large. We model the number of highly cited researchers in a sample of countries as afunction of physical and human...
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This paper studies the nature and pattern of inter vivos two-sided intergenerational transfers of money and time between parents and adult children. We use an analytical model that incorporates altruistic and exchange behavior to describe the interaction between parents and their children. Using...
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passenger demand and revenue. Given the industry's trend towards global cooperation, this is especially important when …
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the demand for the public hospital is higher than optimal. We show that under full information, the optimal redistribution …
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We analyze the determinants of the demand for social, private and self-insurance for long-term care in an environment … of private insurance decreases the demand for social insurance, it only affects a minority of agents so that the majority …-chosen social insurance level remains unaffected. Family support crowds out the demand for both private and social insurance, and …
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Hospital financing systems determine ma jor decisions made by physicians and managers within hospitals. This paper …. We consider two initial situations, one for a private for-profit sector where both hospitals and physicians are paid on a … fee-for-service basis and the other for a public sector under prospective budget and salaried physicians. For the private …
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theoretical and empirical studies of the demand and supply of long term care insurance. We discuss the vicious circle in which the …
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