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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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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR:NIGERIA

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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Uncovering Gender Differences in the Effects of Early Intervention: A Reevaluation of the Abecedarian, Perry Preschool, and Early Training Projects

Anderson, Michael - EconWPA - 2005

The view that the returns to public educational investments are highest for early childhood interventions stems primarily from several influential randomized trials - Abecedarian, Perry, and the Early Training Project - that point to super-normal returns to preschool interventions. This paper...

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Child Schooling in Peru: Evidence From A Sequential Analysis of School Progression

Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2003

Primary enrolment rates are very high in Peru, but so are the failure and drop-out rates, especially beyond the primary level. Thus an analysis of child schooling should take account of the conditional sequence with the previous level and self-selection into the next higher level of schooling....

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

Ueda, Atsuko - EconWPA - 2000

of marriage and two children as a typical family unit is negative for women in the labor force. …This paper empirically examines the life-time joint decision problem of marriage, childbearing, and labor force … generally insignificant. Utility gains and losses from marriage are significantly negative if one leaves out financial …

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Paternal Uncertainty and the Economics of Mating, Marriage, and Parental Investment in Children

Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2005

We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin … recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining …

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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Risky Behavior

Aughinbaugh, Alison; Gittleman, Maury - EconWPA - 2003

evidence that mother’s employment early in the child’s life has lasting consequences on participation in risky behaviors …

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Managed Care and the Adoption of Hospital Technology: The Case of Cardiac Catheterization

Bokhari, Farasat A.S. - EconWPA - 2001

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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Demand for Prescription Drugs: The Effects of Managed Care Pharmacy Benefits

Mortimer, Rika Onishi - EconWPA - 1998

This paper examines how demand for prescription drugs is influenced by different types of insurance. In order to understand demand characteristics and the competitiveness of pharmaceutical markets, both intermolecular (therapeutic) and intramolecular (generic) substitutions are studied in the...

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The Physician-Patient Relationship Revisited - the Patient's View

Schneider, Udo; Ulrich, Volker - EconWPA - 2005

The importance of the physician-patient relationship for the health care market is beyond controversy. Most theoretical work is done in a principal-agent framework, dealing with moral hazard problems. Recent work emphasizes a two-sided asymmetric information relationship between physician and...

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