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Canada’s restrictions on the role of private health insurance for publicly insured physician and hospital services are unique among countries with universal, publicly funded health care systems. Pressure is mounting in Canada, however, to loosen these restrictions and create a parallel system...
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One cornerstone of current attempts to reform the German public health care system by introducing private insurance schemes is the assumption that economic incentives play an important role in individual decision-making about using medical help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand...
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the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, we investigate average school attendance and child labour in …
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structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the VHLSS dataset in Vietnam, in particular its three wave …, we draw conclusions highlighting the Vietnam's labour market specificity. …
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relaxes credit constraints. Using longitudinal data for Vietnam from 1993-98, we find that households participating in non …
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Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban …-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality in Vietnam increased dramatically from 1993 to 1998, and peaked in 2002 before …
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Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence …
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Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use …
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We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect Theory and of quasi-hyperbolic time preferences. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk...
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Human trafficking is one of the most widely spread and fastest growing crimes in the world. However, despite the scope … of the problem, the important human rights issues at stake and the professed intent of governments around the world to … statistically useful data. In this paper we present the results of a pilot study run in rural Vietnam with the aim of overcoming …
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