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Mortality and early growth in England, France, and Sweden

Lagerloef, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

We set up an open-economy, three-country version of the endogenous- mortality model of Lagerloef (forthcoming in the … International Economic Review). The model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. Fitting … parameters to match observed rates of correlation in mortality rates, the model can also account for: (1) differences in the …

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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR POLICY REFORMS FOR NIGERIA:A PHASED PROJECT STUDY

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades,...

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Does the Mortality Decline Promote Economic Growth?

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - EconWPA - 2002

This paper analyzes qualitatively and quantitatively the e ects of declining mortality rates on fertility, education … survival, a decline in an exogenous mortality rate reduces precautionary demand for children and increases parental investment … in each child. Once mortality is endogenized, population growth becomes a hump-shaped function of income per capita. At …

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R&D and Subsidies at the Firm Level: An Application of Parametric and Semi-Parametric Two-Step Selection Models

Hussinger, Katrin - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyzes the effects of public subsidies on R&D expenditure in the German manufacturing sector. The focus is on the question whether public R&D funding stimulates or crowds out private investment. Cross sectional data at the firm level is used. By applying parametric and...

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Are R&D subsidies a substitute or a complement to privately funded R&D? Evidence from France using propensity score methods for non- experimental data

Emmanuel, DUGUET - EconWPA - 2004

This study examines the effect of research and development subsidies on the private funding of R&D in France. We address this issue from the annual R&D survey over 1985-1997, which provides information about the R&D subsidies given by all the ministries to the firms having at least one full-time...

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Bank loans, start-up subsidies and the survival of the new firms: an econometric analysis at the entrepreneur level

Bruno, CREPON; Emmanuel, DUGUET - EconWPA - 2004

We evaluate the impact of bank loans and start-up subsidies on the survival of the new firms. This work relies on the SINE94 survey that provides rich information on the entrepreneurs and their start-up projects. We use the propensity score matching methodology, in the case of multiple...

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Linking Representative Household Models with Household Surveys for Poverty Analysis A Comparison of Alternative Methodologies

Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Chen, Derek; Grimm, Michael - EconWPA - 2004

We compare three approaches to linking macro models with representative households and micro household income data in terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These approaches are a simple micro- accounting method, an...

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The Qualitative Performance of the French Health Care System Evolutions compared to Europe since 1970

D'INTIGNANO, Beatrice MAJNONI; ULMANN, Philippe - EconWPA - 2003

To judge a health care system, it is necessary to analyse its results in terms of health and to bring them back to its economic effectiveness. Health outcomes can be evaluated in several ways but none of them is really representative. To locate the performance in terms of health for the French...

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Health Economics : some stylized facts

ULMANN, Philippe - EconWPA - 2003

The study of the stylized facts of economic growth has allowed an advance of this field of economic analysis in its empirical and theorical works. Today, Health Economics is faced with new requirements of society, i.e. better care at a sustainable cost. Furthermore, since the problems linked...

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Wages, Alcohol Use, and Smoking: Simultaneous Estimates

Auld, M. Christopher - EconWPA - 1998

This paper estimates a simultaneous model of moderate and problem drinking, smoking, and wages using a random sample of employed Canadian men. The results indicate that sample selection into alcohol and tobacco use is not negligible. With all else in the system held constant, moderate and heavy...

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