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Common sense supports prevention policies aimed at improving survival prospects among the population. It is also widely …-lived individuals. This paper re-examines the compatibility of those two concerns: prevention against early death and compensation for … early death. We show that, under mild conditions, no social ordering on allocations can satisfy a concern for prevention and …
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/or (4) develop a psychological harassment prevention process. The paper argues managers may effectively combat psychological …
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We develop a model where consumers do not have ex-ante private information on their risk but can decide to acquire such information before insurance policy purchase. Adverse selection can arise endogenouslyin the insurance market. We focus on the case where information has decision-making value:...
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Frey, Herbst and Walter (2007) (FHW), we assess herding by French equity mutual funds between 1999 and 2005. We show that …
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Value and growth investment styles are a concept which has gained extreme popularity over the past two decades, probably due to its practical efficiency and relative simplicity. We study the mechanics of different factors' impact on excess returns in a multivariate setting. We use a panel of...
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(Maharashtra, India). Drawing upon the capability approach and the concept of disadvantage, we define equity as the need to focus … patronage relations and institutional discriminatory practices that perpetuate categorical inequalities. Addressing equity …
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the relative influence of neighbourhood and individual practices of care utilization in Dakar (Senegal). The data from a research program on urban malaria, made in Dakar, Senegal between 2008 and 2009. The sample was based on a two-stage sampling. A...
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La cohesión social, concepto especialmente valorado como expresión y resultado del modelo social europeo y asociado al significado del estado de bienestar, quiere transmitir un conjunto de valores como el sentido de pertenencia, equilibrios en la gestión de los asuntos públicos, control de...
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ensure equity and efficiency and funding for the longer term. We also define a contributory financing scheme for higher …
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In many developed countries attempts to reform physicians payment schemes have failed. To analyze some of the difficulties, this paper studies reforms of payment schemes in situations such as the physician agency, where the quality of the good produced is imperfectly observable by the payer. We...
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