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, pharmaceutical expenditures, and mortality rates. Reductions in pharmaceutical purchases and mortality are each valued at $900 …
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Environmental federalism refers to the debate over the 'optimal' level of government at which to delegate environmental … literatures. By doing so, the goal is to limit the scope of the debate over environmental federalism moving forward, as well as …
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The potential failure of national industry agreements to take into account productivity levels of least productive regions has been considered as one of the causes of regional unemployment in European countries. Two solutions are generally proposed: the first, encouraged by the European...
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Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...
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Policy-makers worldwide are embarking on school programmes aimed at boosting students' resilience. One facet of resilience is a belief about cause and effect in life, locus of control. I test whether positive control beliefs work as a psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To...
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We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...
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analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …
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for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …
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and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being … the hospitalization of men subject to stricter rules but their mortality rate is reduced by 1.2 percentage points. The …
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In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public … holidays and other special days or events coinciding with paydays and for general within-month and within-week mortality …
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