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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...

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Multitasking, quality and pay for performance

Kaarboe, Oddvar Martin; Siciliani, Luigi - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008

We present a model of optimal contracting between a purchaser and a provider of health services when quality has two … dimensions. We assume that one dimension of quality is contractible (dimension 1) and one dimension is not contractible … quality 1 increases or decreases the marginal cost and marginal bene?t of quality 2 (i.e. substitutability or complementarity …

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Competition and quality in regulated markets: a differential-game approach

Brekke, Kurt R.; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; … - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … utilities) taking a di¤erential game approach, in which quality is a stock variable. Using a Hotelling framework, we derive the … the marginal provision cost is increasing, investment and quality are lower in the closed-loop solution: in fact, quality …

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Does quality affect patientsâ€™ choice of doctor? Evidence from the UK

Santos, R.; Gravelle, H.; Propper, C. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2014

improve quality is that providers will face higher demand if they improve their quality. In this paper we test this crucial … assumption in an important part of the health care market by examining whether quality affects the choice of family doctor. We … the determinants of choice and, in particular, whether quality affects choice. The English setting is a particularly …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 individualâ€™s life-cycle addiction and cigarette consumption in the presence and in the absence of a public smoking...

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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 caregiverâ€™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...

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