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Parental involvement in their children’s lives can have a lasting impact on well-being. More involved parents convey to … their children that they are interested in their development, and this in turn signals to the child that their future is … Development Study; a longitudinal study of children born in Britain in 1958. Results on a sample of children raised in two parent …
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, there are strong links between female employment, having children and union formation. By undertaking a detailed micro …
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captured by attitudes toward marriage, divorce, fertility, and children. Singles search for mates in a marriage market. They … organization of the latter, and, also, in part, on An overlapping generations model of marriage, fertility and nature of the is … are free to accept or reject marriage proposals. Married agents make their decisions through bargaining about work, and …
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We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level of income persistence in the 1970 BCS cohort and also to explore the...
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The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe but its application to children has seen relatively … little discussion. What could be meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper. Among other things, I … exclusion of children. The second main theme is the use of the concept of exclusion in the USA, where in contrast to Europe it …
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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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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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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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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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While recent research has explored the phenomenon of drug parallel trade in regulated environments such as the European Union (EU), or the European Economic Area, little is known about the mechanisms that explain its origin or the role of the distribution chain in exporting and importing...
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