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Improving college access and success for low-income students: Evidence from a large need-based grant program

Fack, Gabrielle; Grenet, Julien - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2013

Using comprehensive administrative data on France's single largest financial aid program, this paper provides new evidence on the impact of large-scale need-based grant programs on the college enrollment decisions, persistence and graduation rates of low-income students. We exploit sharp...

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Social capital, government expenditures, and growth

Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Troiano, Ugo - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012

We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under- invest in education, whose...

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Gestión de la competencia en el sector público

Arruñada, Benito - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

Este trabajo analiza el papel de la competencia en la gestión pública, para lo cual toma como referencia la organización burocrática basada en centros de gasto que no cobran por sus servicios y suelen ser demasiado grandes e ineficientes. Para introducir competencia, se da libertad de...

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La capitación en la financiación territorial de los servicios públicos transferidos: el caso de la sanidad y de la educación

López, Guillem - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999

Se ofrece en el presente trabajo un estudio empírico sobre la garantía de suficiencia y equidad en la distribución territorial de los recursos sanitarios que se derivaría de una posible incorporación de la financiación sanitaria en la financiación autonómica general. Se pretende con ello...

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La capitación en la financiación territorial de los servicios públicos transferidos: el caso de la sanidad y de la educación

López, Guillem - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999

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Cost-containment in health care: The case of Spain from the eighties up to 1997

López, Guillem - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the evolution of health care expenditure in Spain during the … divided into three separate sections. The first offers a brief description of the Spanish Health Care System, with emphasis … placed on the issue of expenditure control and health planning targets. The second part outlines a set of cost containment …

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Cost efficiency in primary care contracting: A stochastic frontier cost function approach

Puig, Jaume; Ortún, Vicente - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

the analysis of the primary health care services purchased by the public authority and supplied by 180 providers in 1996 …-out primary health care teams to minimise prescription costs, which are not explicitly included in the present contracting system. …

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Saving lives: Evidence from a conditional food supplementation program

Litschig, Stephan; Meller, Marian - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012

by regular staff at local public health posts and consisted of offering a free micronutrient-fortified food, Mi Papilla …, for children aged 6 to 24 months in exchange for routine health check-ups for the children. Our regression discontinuity …

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Launching prices for new pharmaceuticals in heavily regulated and subsidized markets

Puig, Jaume; López-Valcárcel, Beatriz González - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012

This paper provides empirical evidence on the explanatory factors affecting introductory prices of new pharmaceuticals in a heavily regulated and highly subsidized market. We collect a data set consisting of all new chemical entities launched in Spain between 1997 and 2005, and model launching...

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Transition probabilities and duration analysis among disability states: Some evidence from Spanish data

Casasnovas, Guillem López i; Nicodemo, Catia - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012

In this paper we study the disability transition probabilities (as well as the mortality probabilities) due to concurrent factors to age such as income, gender and education. Although it is well known that ageing and socioeconomic status influence the probability of causing functional disorders,...

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