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The diffusion of health care technology is influenced by both the total market share of managed care organizations as well as the level of competition among them. This paper differentiates between HMO penetration and competition and examines their relationship to the adoption of cardiac...
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This short paper demonstrates two important results related to the estimation of competing-risk models under the proportional-hazards assumption with grouped duration data. First I show that the model with non-parametric baseline hazards is unidentifiable with only grouped duration data....
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We use unique data from the Medicaid program of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to examine the duration of Medicaid spells. The data set consists of a one in ten sample of all Medicaid recipients in Kentucky on July 1, 1986, and a similar sample of all new spells between July 1, 1986, and June 30,...
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the presence of protectionist policy is welfare deteriorating as well as unemployment accentuating. But, the developing … dualism and a non- traded final commodity. In the given setup, an inflow of foreign capital is likely to improve welfare and …
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raise the welfare of the economy while an emigration of unskilled labour is welfare reducing. Also an emigration of skilled …
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. Then we study the impact of changes in exogenous variables on consumption, growth, and welfare. Next, we show that … consumption-wealth ratio and welfare should be higher in an open economy than in a closed economy. We discuss whether open … an open economy. We get that the size of the public sector which maximizes welfare is lower than that which maximizes …
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We calculate welfare gains of trade liberalization in the Central and East European transition economies, following the … product varieties is crucial to quantifying the welfare impact of trade liberalization. The empirical work relies on direct … conclusion is that freer trade has boosted welfare. …
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regarding Minsky’s early involvement in the “War on Poverty.” This paper will trace the development of Minsky’s thinking on … antipoverty policies to his support for welfare reform and federal job creation programs …
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presently used in the Argentina universitary system). Assessment of the alternatives is performed over welfare, based on the … indicators of poverty, equality, equity (justice in the distribution) and the average levels of utility and wealth. Likewise, the … functions of welfare presented by Bentham, Rawls, Atkinson, Sen and Kakwani are also considered. The most remarkable results are …
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treatment program. Under the assumption of a welfare-maximizing agency, we identify general equilibrium treatment effects and …
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