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National Health Accounts in Latin America and Caribbean - Concept, Results and Policy Uses

Magnoli, Alessandro - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents the National Health Accounts (NHA) methodology and its relevance in policy making in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. After presenting the concept of NHA and highlighting recent results of LAC data collection activities, the paper will focus on policy...

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The Economic Cost of the U.S. Health Care System

Adari, Johnson - EconWPA - 2005

The economic cost of the U.S. health care system goes beyond the cost of prescription drugs, doctor office visits and surgical procedures/ medical image tests. The implicit part of the cost includes the global competitiveness that the U.S. loses being an industrialized economy. The high health...

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HEALTH SYSTEM WATCH SPRING/1999: CROSS-SECTION ANALYSIS OF HEALTH SPENDING WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO TRENDS IN AUSTRIA

Hofmarcher, Maria M - EconWPA - 2001

The richer a country, the higher its expenditure on health care. The increase in health spending which compared to the overall growth had taken place at a rather rapid pace experienced a worldwide slow-down during the 90s. In relation to overall economic growth and the expansion of other...

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Cuentas Nacionales de Salud en América Latina y Caribe - Concepto, resultados y política de empleo

Magnoli, Alessandro - EconWPA - 2005

Este trabajo presenta la metodología de las Cuentas Nacionales de Salud (CNS) y su importancia en el diseño de políticas en la región de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (LAC). Después de presentar el significado el concepto de las CNS y de resaltar algunos de los resultados recientes en los...

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Does Longevity Cause Growth

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - EconWPA - 2005

This article challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that greater longevity cannot explain the significant accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children's future income proportionally at all levels of education,...

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Labor Supply and Child Care Costs: The Effect of Rationing

Boca, Daniela Del; Vuri, Daniela - EconWPA - 2005

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Effects of Infertility Insurance Mandates on Fertility

Lucie, Schmidt - EconWPA - 2005

examine whether these state-level mandates were successful in increasing fertility rates. Using a difference …

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The Impact of Female Employment on the Likelihood and Timing of Second and Higher Order Pregnancies

Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 1996

transition to third pregnancy. In addition, this paper demonstrates that an appropriate method of modeling the fertility and …This paper examines the effects of married women's employment on their fertility behavior in the United States. Data … status affected the rate at which she had a second, third or fourth pregnancy. The study finds that the labor …

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A Dynamic Decision Model of Marriage, Childbearing, and Labor Force Participation of Women in Japan

Ueda, Atsuko - EconWPA - 2000

participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using …

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Generalizing the Causal Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply

Cruces, Guillermo; Galiani, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2003

We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability … both qualitatively and quantitatively to the populations of two developing countries where, compared to the US, fertility …

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