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Long term care partnerships: are they 'fit for purpose'?

Bergquist, Savannah; Costa-Font, Joan; Swartz, Katherine - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

The risk of high costs of long-term care services and supports (LTSS) is one of the largest uninsured risks for American families and a major challenge to the sustainability of Medicaid. To address the latter, the long-term care partnership (LTCP) program was an initiative designed to encourage...

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Changes in the living arrangements of elderly people in Greece: 1974-1999

Karagiannaki, Eleni - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

During the period 1974-1999 the percentage of elderly living with their children in Greece reduced from 55 per cent to … elderly people and their adult children and its implications for economic well-being. We find that the main factor that has … important force driving the increase in the independent living among the elderly Greeks throughout the period under examination …

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Employment duration and shifts into retirement in the EU

Aranki, Ted; Macchiarelli, Corrado - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

According to Principal-Agent theory, states (the principal) delegate the implementation of a legalized agreement to an international organization (the agent). The conventional wisdom about states’ capacity to control international organizations is that differences among the member states...

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Long-term health effects on the next generation of Ramadan fasting during pregnancy

van Ewijk, Reyn - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Each year, many pregnant women fast from dawn to sunset during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Medical theory suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder (2008), and using Indonesian crosssectional data, I...

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Convergence or divergence?: a longitudinal analysis of behaviour problems among disabled and non-disabled children aged 3 to 7 in England

Fauth, Rebecca; Parsons, Samantha; Platt, Lucinda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This study sets out to identify the incidence and development of disabled childrenâ€™s problem behaviours, including conduct, peer, hyperactivity and emotional problems during the early years using the Millennium Cohort Study, a large-scale, nationally representative UK study. We track the...

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Wealth shocks and health outcomes: evidence from stock market fluctuations

Schwandt, Hannes - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about …

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Multiple criteria decision analysis for value based assessment of new medical technologies: a conceptual framework

Kanavos, Panos; Angelis, Aris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Assessing the value of new medical technologies may require new approaches that take into account a more comprehensive set of parameters than the incremental cost/QALY. It is argued that MCDA can fulfil this role and has the potential to be methodologically superior to the currently used...

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Determinants of branded prescription medicine prices in OECD countries

Kanavos, Panos G.; Vandoros, Sotiris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper investigates the determinants of the prices of branded prescription medicines across different regulatory settings and health care systems, taking into account their launch date, patent status, market dynamics and the regulatory context in which they diffuse. By using volume-weighted...

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Demand and pricing of preventative healthcare

Vandoros, Sotiris; Carman, Katherine Grace - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This study introduces a theoretical framework for the economics of preventative healthcare. Mathematical models are used to explain how the price and utilization of prevention change depending on demand, as well as factors such as the price of a cure, the probability of illness, the efficacy of...

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Does pharmaceutical price regulation affect the adoption of generic competition?: evidence from the OECD, 1999-2008

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Varol, Nebibe; McGuire, Alistair - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Generic competition in the pharmaceutical market is an effective cost-containment mechanism that improves static efficiency and stimulates pharmaceutical innovation. There is no prior study that has empirically analysed the relative delays in adoption of generic competition. This paper aims to...

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