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The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Child Health Outcomes and Abandonment. Evidence from Romania
Mitrut, Andreea; Wolff, Francois-Charles - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011
were removed from power, to understand its impact on childrens health at birth and during early childhood and whether the … lift of the ban had an immediate impact on child abandonment. We find insignificant estimates for health at birth outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201045
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Non-monotonic health behaviours - implications for individual health-related behaviour in a demand-for-health framework
Bolin, Kristian; Lindgren, Björn - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014
A number of behaviours influence health in a non-monotonic way. Physical activity and alcohol consumption, for instance …, may be beneficial to one’s health in moderate but detrimental in large quantities. We develop a demand-for-health …-optimal level, because of the trade-off in his or her preferences for health versus other utility-affecting commodities. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019105
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Loss evasion and tax aversion
Engström, Per; Nordblom, Katarina; Ohlsson, Henry; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011
The objective of this paper is to study if taxpayers behave in a loss averse manner when filing their tax returns. This is important for tax design but also for understanding human behavior in general. The predictions of prospect theory can be contrasted to those of expected utility theory. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818764
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Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia: Does Agroecology Matter?
Kassie, Menale; Zikhali, Precious; Pender, John; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
Sustainable agricultural practices, in as far as they rely on renewable local or farm resources, present desirable options for enhancing agricultural productivity for resource-constrained farmers in developing countries. In this paper, we used two sets of plot-level data—from a low-rainfall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469622
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Economics of Soil Conservation Adoption in High-Rainfall Areas of the Ethiopian Highlands
Kassie, Menale; Holden, Stein; Köhlin, Gunnar; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
This study measures the impact of fanya juu bunds (an important soil and water conservation technology and the most popular type of contour bund in east Africa) on the value of crop production in a high-rainfall area in the Ethiopian highlands using cross-sectional multiple plot observations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469626
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Organic Farming Technologies and Agricultural Productivity: The case of Semi-Arid Ethiopia
Kassie, Menale; Zikhali, Precious; Pender, John; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008
Organic farming practices, in as far as they rely on local or farm renewable resources, present desirable options for enhancing agricultural productivity for resource-constrained farmers in developing countries. In this paper we use plot-level data from semi-arid area of Ethiopia to investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651789
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Individual technologies for health - the implications of distinguishing between the ability to produce health investments and the capacity to benefit from those investments
Bolin, Kristian; Liljas, Bengt; Lindgren, Björn - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014
People differ in their ability to produce health investments and in their capacity to benefit from such efforts. In … this paper, we assume (1) that the individual’s health-investment production function exhibits diminishing returns to scale … and (2) that the individual’s capacity to benefit from the investments is diminishing in the stock of health. Previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019134
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Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi
Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
inequality as a predictor of HIV infections. The HIV-inequality relationship does not seem to be related to bad health, gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543209
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Effects of informal eldercare on female labor supply in different European welfare states
Kotsadam, Andreas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
Using advanced panel data methods on ECHP (European Community Household Panel) data, female labor force participation at both the intensive and extensive margin is found to be negatively associated with informal caregiving to elderly. The effects of informal caregiving seem to be more negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771212
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"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine". An analysis of multiple spells of sickness
Andrén, Daniela - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008
suggest that there was more heterogeneity among spells grouped by the factors related to the health status of the individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423940