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Measurement and explanation of socioeconomic inequality in health with longitudinal data

Jones, Andrew M.; López, Ángel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

This paper presents a method for the measurement of changes in health inequality and income-related health inequality … over time in a population. For pure health inequality (as measured by the Gini coefficient) and income-related health … inequality (as measured by the concentration index), we show how measures derived from longitudinal data can be related to cross …

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North-South convergence and the allocation of CO2 emissions

Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010

We postulate a two-region world, comprised of North (calibrated after the US) and South (calibrated after China). Our optimization results show the compatibility of the following three desiderata: (1) Global CO2 emissions follow a conservative path that leads to the stabilization of...

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The size and distribution of donations: Effects of numbers of potential recipients

Hogarth, Robin; Soyer, Emre - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010

Whereas much literature exists on “choice overload,” little is known about effects of numbers of alternatives in donation decisions. How do these affect both the size and distribution of donations? We hypothesize that donations are affected by the reputation of recipients and increase with...

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Are self-regarding subjects more rational?

Arruñada, Benito; Casari, Marco; Pancotto, Francesca - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012

Through an experiment, we investigate how the level of rationality relates to concerns for equality and efficiency. Subjects perform dictator games and a guessing game. More rational subjects are not more frequently of the selfregarding type. When performing a comparison within the same degree...

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Intergenerational justice when future worlds are uncertain

Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009

Let there be a positive (exogenous) probability that, at each date, the human species will disappear. We postulate an Ethical Observer (EO) who maximizes intertemporal welfare under this uncertainty, with expected-utility preferences. Various social welfare criteria entail alternative von...

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Promoting rule compliance in daily-life: Evidence from a randomized field experiment in the public libraries of Barcelona

Apesteguia, Jose; Funk, Patricia; Iriberri, Nagore - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010

We study how to promote compliance with rules in everyday situations. Having access to unique data on the universe of users of all public libraries in Barcelona, we test the effect of sending email messages with dierent contents. We find that users return their items earlier if asked to do so in...

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The social value of health programs: Is age a relevant factor?

Rodríguez, Eva; Pinto, José Luis - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

In cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) it is usually assumed that a QALY is of equal value to everybody, irrespective of the patient's age. However, it is possible that society assigns different social values to a QALY according to who gets it. In this paper we discuss the possibility of weighting...

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The evolution of inequity in the access to health care in Spain: 1987-2001

Gómez, Pilar García; López, Ángel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004

This paper reports an analysis of the evolution of equity in access to health care in Spain over the period 1987-2001, a time span covering the development of the modern Spanish National Health System. Our measures of access are the probabilities of visiting a doctor, using emergency services...

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Socio-economic inequalities in health in Catalonia

Gómez, Pilar García; López, Ángel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004

In this paper we measure the degree of income related inequality in mental health as measured by the GHQ instrument and … to inequality, although the share of inequality in mental health that can be explained by income is much greater than the … corresponding share of inequality in general health. We also find that the variation in demographic structure reduces income related …

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The significance of distributive effects in social assessment of health care

Rodríguez, Eva; Pinto, José Luis - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

In this paper we address the importance of distributive effects in the social valuation of QALY's. We propose a social welfare function that generalises the functions traditionally used in the health economic literature. The novelty is that, depending on the individual health gains, our function...

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