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Economic Costs of Diabetes in the U.S. in 2002

Dall, Tim; Nikolov, Plamen; Hogan, Paul - EconWPA - 2003

The study highlights the large and rising cost of the disease: an estimated $132 billion, or approximately $92 billion in direct healthcare expenditures and $40 billion in lost productivity attributed to missed workdays, disability, and early mortality. After adjusting for differences in...

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The Economics of Crime: Investigating the Drugs-Crime Channel

Entorf, Horst; Winker, Peter - EconWPA - 2001

significant impact, in particular on property crimes. We attribute this finding to a strong economic-related channel of drug abuse …

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Benchmarking the Health Sector in Germany – An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

Staat, Matthias; Hammerschmidt, Maik - EconWPA - 2003

At present, a first round of hospital benchmarking as required by German law on health care reform takes place. After extensive discussions between hospitals and insurance companies, which are jointly responsible to deliver benchmarking results, a method with some peculiar characteristics was...

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Counting chickens when they hatch: The short-term effect of aid on growth

Clemens, Michael A.; Radelet, Steven; Bhavnani, Rikhil - EconWPA - 2004

Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a … positive, causal relationship between this 'short-impact' aid and economic growth (with diminishing returns) over a four …-year period. The impact is large: at least two-to-three times larger than in studies using aggregate aid. Even at a conservatively …

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Exogenous shocks and real estate rental markets: An event study of the 9/11 attacks and their impact on the New York office market

Fuerst, Franz - EconWPA - 2005

Any attempt to measure the impact of the 9/11 attacks is faced with the difficulty of separating the effects of the … attacks from the impact of a wider economic recession and other simultaneous events. This study attempts to isolate the effect … of their spatial and temporal impact. While the New York office market as a whole has demonstrated remarkable resiliency …

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Are there Regional Variations in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment in South Africa?

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

Are certain groups of unemployed individuals hurt less by unemployment than others? This paper is an attempt to test the hypothesis that non- pecuniary costs of unemployment may vary between societies with different unemployment rates. Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show...

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Una misurazione del benessere nelle regioni italiane

Grasso, Marco - EconWPA - 2004

La limitazione del benessere ai soli aspetti reddituali ignora numerose dimensioni e condizioni fondamentali per il realizzarsi delle potenzialità individuali. Obiettivo dell’articolo è quello di fornire una misura multidimensionale di benessere per le Regioni italiane, che superi la...

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Knowing what is good for you. Empirical analysis of personal preferences and the “objective good”

Lelkes, Orsolya - EconWPA - 2005

This paper aims to test empirically if certain frequently used measures of well-being, which are regarded as valuable properties of human life, are actually desired by people. In other words, it investigates whether the “expert judgments” in social science overlap with social consensus on...

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Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

This paper is the first of its kind to study quality of life responses of crime victims. Using cross-sectional data from the OHS97 survey of South Africa, we show that victims report significantly lower well-being than the non-victims, ceteris paribus. Happiness is lower for nonvictimized...

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Knowing what is good for you. Empirical analysis of personal preferences and the 'objective good'

Lelkes, Orsolya - EconWPA - 2005

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