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Themes in the economics of aging
Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001570013
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Inquiries in the economics of aging
Wise, David A. (ed.) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480942
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Investigations in the economics of aging
Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2012
Financing retirement -- Were they prepared for retirement? : financial status at advanced ages in the HRS and AHEAD cohorts / James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise ; comment, David Laibson -- Economic preparation for retirement / Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder ; comment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724926
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The Anatomy of Health Insurance
Cutler, David M. - 1999
This article describes the anatomy of health insurance. It begins by considering the optimal design of health insurance policies. Such policies must make tradeoffs appropriately between risk sharing on the one hand and agency problems such as moral hazard (the incentive of people to seek more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471611
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International Health Economics
Egan, Mark - 2013
medical innovations whose returns are earned worldwide. Because world returns drive innovation and innovation is central to … countries when governments centrally price health care. Providing world returns to medical innovation under such central pricing … benefit of medical innovation. This has the direct normative implication that medical innovations have inefficiently low world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459381
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Analyses in the economics of aging : [a National Bureau of Economic Research conference report]
Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002404899
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Health at older ages : the causes and consequences of declining disability among the elderly
Cutler, David M. (ed.); Wise, David A. (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003681819
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The Future of Health Economics
Fuchs, Victor R. - 1999
This paper discusses health economics as a behavioral science and as input into health policy and health services research. I illustrate the dual role with data on publications and citations of two leading health economics journals and three leading American health economists. Five important,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471405
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Economics and Mental Health
Frank, Richard G. - 1999
This paper is concerned with the economics of mental health. We argue that mental health economics is like health economics only more so: uncertainty and variation in treatments are greater; the assumption of patient self-interested behavior is more dubious; response to financial incentives such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471749
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Economic Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases
Philipson, Tomas - 1999
Infectious disease is currently the main cause of mortality in the world and has been even more important historically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471763