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This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …
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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 … paid by patients who do not pay official fees. I do not find evidence that the public health care sector in either Peru or …
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The problem of the uninsured – those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies – cannot be fully understood … publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care system. This paper tackles the problem of the uninsured by formulating …-efforts to avoid health losses can grossly distort the success of the ACA mandate to insure the uninsured and to improve the …
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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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This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in … others used in the health field are noted. We conclude that more empirical data, a full labor market analysis, and the use of …
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husband’s wages. Consistent with this but, in contrast to results for richer countries, antenatal and postnatal health …-care decline in recessions. These effects are reinforced by pro-cyclicality in state health and development expenditure. Another …
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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 expenditures to variations in the level of international remittances is … almost three times greater than its responsiveness to changes in other sources of household income. Furthermore, health care …
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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 to register data on the vital status of the individuals. The model …
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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 … choose private health services than public health services from the National Health Service. For high-income individuals …
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This paper aims to explore the interrelation between health and work decisions of elderly workers, taking the various … ways in which health and work can influence each other explicitly into account. For this, two issues are of relevance. Self …-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empirical analyses and research indicates that these may be endogenous, state …
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