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Vaccination campaigns to prevent the spread of epidemics are successful only if the targeted populations subscribe to … the recommendations of health authorities. However, because compulsory vaccination is hardly conceivable in modern …, with 175 participants, to explore what type of information can induce change in vaccination intentions at both aggregate …
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The sale of ideas (e.g. through licensing) facilitates vertical specialization and the division of labor between research and development. This specialization can improve the overall efficiency of the innovative process. However, these gains depend on the timing of the sale: the buyer of an idea...
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Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a growing issue in both professional and academic circles. The typology of Cooper et al. (1998) has pictured the variety of PPM formalized approaches into four types (financial, strategic, scoring and “bubble diagram”). While the use of formalized...
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External referencing (ER) imposes a price cap for pharmaceuticals based on prices of identical products in foreign …
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This paper investigates the impact of mortality in the districts/states represented in key congressional groups (i.e. committees, subcommittees, and parties) on the public investment in medical research in the US. I focus on National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grants awarded between...
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The Objective of this paper is to test the consequences of changes in health status of future cohorts of French elderly on healthcare expenditures. We value the precise effect of epidemiological and life expectancy changes on health expenditures for 2025 by using a markovian microsimulation...
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plausible conditions offer alternative explanations of households' location by income within a city. These include the existence …
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There is now a great deal of micro-econometric evidence, both cross-section and panel, showing that income is … measures of utility, and resolve the Easterlin paradox by appealing to income comparisons: these can be to others (social …
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This research tested the idea that lack of material resources (e.g., low income) causes people to make harsher moral … behavior. Consistent with this idea, a large cross-cultural survey (Study 1) found that both chronic (low income) and … stronger for low-income individuals, whom inflation renders relatively more vulnerable. A follow-up experiment (Study 2) caused …
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We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely … exogenous. Positive income shocks have no significant effect on self-assessed overall health, but a significant positive effect …
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