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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...
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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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New Evidence on the Role of Remittances on Health Care Expenditures by Mexican Households
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are spent on health. The sensitivity of health care...
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The Problem of the Uninsured
Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The problem of the uninsured – those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies – cannot be fully understood without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called "self-insurance" and "self-protection", including the publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695855
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822739
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Fatal Fluctuations? Cyclicality in Infant Mortality in India
Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality at most ages is pro-cyclical but similar analyses for poorer countries are scarce, and both income risk and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763441
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A Demographic Dividend for Sub-Saharan Africa: Source, Magnitude, and Realization
Bloom, David E.; Humair, Salal; Rosenberg, Larry; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Managing rapid population growth and spurring economic growth are among the most pressing policy challenges for Sub-Saharan Africa. We discuss the links between them and investigate the potential of family planning programs to address these challenges. Specifically, we estimate the impact of...
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A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa
Andalón, Mabel; Fields, Gary - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization challenge, a distributional challenge, a performance challenge, and a...
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
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