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The Anatomy of Health Insurance
Cutler, David M. - 1999
This article describes the anatomy of health insurance. It begins by considering the optimal design of health insurance policies. Such policies must make tradeoffs appropriately between risk sharing on the one hand and agency problems such as moral hazard (the incentive of people to seek more...
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The Elgar companion to health economics
Jones, Andrew M. (contributor) - 2006
The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics. The volume brings together 50...
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Themes in the economics of aging
Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2001
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Health Insurance and Households' Precautionary Behaviors - An Unusual Natural Experiment
Chou, Shin-Yi - 2002
By reducing risk of large out-of-pocket medical expenses, comprehensive social health insurance may reduce households' motivation to engage in precautionary behaviors such as saving, procurement of private insurance, and spousal labor-force participation. We use the natural experiment provided...
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Sources of U.S. Longevity Increase, 1960-1997
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2002
Between 1960 and 1997, life expectancy at birth of Americans increased approximately 10% - from 69.7 to 76.5 years - and it has been estimated that the value of life extension during this period nearly equaled the gains in tangible consumption. We investigate whether an aggregate health...
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The economics of health behaviours
Kenkel, Donald Scott (contributor);  … - 2008
', Journal of Econometrics, 93, 49-72 -- Jonathan Gruber and Botond Köszegi (2001), 'Is Addiction "Rational"? Theory and Evidence …Recommended readings (Machine generated): H. Leibenstein (1950), 'Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of … Kevin M. Murphy (1988), 'A Theory of Rational Addiction', Journal of Political Economy, 96 (4), August, 675-700 -- Engelbert …
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International Health Economics
Egan, Mark - 2013
Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose returns are earned worldwide....
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Human capital : a theoretical and empirical analysis, with special reference to education
Becker, Gary Stanley - 1975 - 2. ed.
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Proceedings of the Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar on Market Failures and Public Policy : 19 - 21 May 1994 : special issue
Gordon, Roger (contributor) - Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar <1994, Turin> - 1996
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