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Ethical and Economic Perspectives on Global Health Interventions
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Pogge, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
health. To support a justice argument for such modification, we show how the current global economic order may contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653979
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Linking Individuals and Societies
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039644
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A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper proposes a new unified theory of sociobehavioral forces. The goal of the new theory is to integrate theories … describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and … characteristics, and primordial sociobehavioral outcomes. The unified theory posits the operation of three sociobehavioral forces …
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Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy
Checchi, Daniele; Peragine, Vitorocco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an "ethically offensive" and an "ethically acceptable" part. Moreover, we provide some empirical applications of these new evaluation tools: in the first exercise, we compare the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703562
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Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies – justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members’ gains, effects of own … killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives – to achieve equal gains for members. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822039
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The Terms and Relations of Comparison, Referential, and Relative Processes
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
new unified theory, which also links the forces to identity and to happiness. Second, following the new unified theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700875
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Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health
Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per; Josephson, Malin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884323
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Do You Have to Win It to Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand
Cheng, Terence Chai; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210819
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Conjugal Bereavement Effects on Health and Mortality at Advanced Ages
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We specify a model for the lifetimes of spouses and the dynamic evolution of health, allowing spousal death to have causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces many health status aspects over time, and that is linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703718
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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda
Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...
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