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DRG prospective payment system: refine or not refine?
Siciliani, Luigi; Hafsteinsdóttir, Elín J. G. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008
hospitals provide two alternative treatments for a given diagnosis: a less intensive one (for example a medical treatment) and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005695805
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Re-visiting the Health Care Luxury Good Hypothesis: Aggregation, Precision, and Publication Biases?
Costa-Font, J; M, Gemmill; G, Rubert - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009
While a growing literature examining the relationship between income and health expenditures suggests that health care is a luxury good, this conclusion is contentiously debated due to heterogeneity of the existing results. This paper tests the luxury good hypothesis (namely that income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328370
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*** Article withdrawn *** Management Practices in Hospitals
N, Bloom; C, Propper; S, Seiler; J, Van Reenen - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009
We develop a new methodology for measuring management practices in hospitals, and use this in 182 interviews of … physicians and managers in public and private hospitals (covering 61% of English acute trusts). We find our management measure is … operational and financial outcomes. Management in publicly owned hospitals (the National Health Service) compares poorly with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962214
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Growth and Containment of Health Care Expenditure in Industrial Countries
Hitiris, Theo - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University …
Health Expenditure has been rising faster than the growth of income in most industrial countries. The objective of this paper is to discover what factors determined Health Expenditure per head of population in the G7 Countries and whether governments could control them. The analysis has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328531
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Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence: A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings
den Berg, G. J van; P, Lundborg; P, Nystedt; D, Rooth - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009
We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children’s development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are mostly poorer, with less healthy conditions. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962213
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Positive and Normative Issues of Economic Growth with Infectious Disease
Delfino, Doriana; Simmons, Peter J. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University …
This paper uses a variant of the Lotka-Volterra system explaining the dynamic interaction between populations of infected and healthy individuals in which the demographic and epidemiological parameters (the net healthy birth rate, the death rate of the infected and the infection rate) are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005523961
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Rational Addictive Behavior under Uncertainty
Yang, Zaifu; Zhang, Rong - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2014
We develop a new model of addictive behavior that takes as a starting point the classic rational addiction model of Becker and Murphy, but incorporates uncertainty. We model uncertainty through the Wiener stochastic process. This process captures both random events such as anxiety, tensions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010798435
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A model of the impact of smoking bans on smoking with evidence from bans in England and Scotland
Jones, A; Laporte, A; Rice, N; Zucchelli, E - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011
This paper evaluates the impact of smoking bans on smoking using a policy change introduced by the UK government. We present a theoretical model of smoking that defines an individual’s life-cycle addiction and cigarette consumption in the presence and in the absence of a public smoking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019867
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Short- and medium-term effects of informal care provision on health
Schmitz, H.; Westphal, M. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
This paper estimates the effect of informal care provision on female caregiver’s health. We use data from the German Socio-economic Panel and assess effects up to seven years after care provision. A simulation-based sensitivity analysis scrutinizes the sensitivity of the results with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133580
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Obesity, Weight Loss, and Employment Prospects: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Reichert, A. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
This study presents credible estimates for the causal effect of a variation in obesity on employment. By exploring random assignment of a weight loss intervention based on monetary rewards, I provide convincing evidence that weight loss positively affects the employment prospects of obese women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692339