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European identity and redistributive preferences

Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2015

How important is spatial identity in shifting preferences for redistribution? This paper takes advantage of within-country variability in the adoption of a single currency as an instrument to examine the impact of the rescaling of spatial identity in Europe. We draw upon data from the last three...

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Crowding out of long-term care insurance : evidence from European expectations data

Costa-Font, Joan; Courbage, Christophe - 2014

Long-term care (LTC) is the largest insurable risk that old-age individuals face in most western societies. However, the demand for LTC insurance is still ostensibly small in comparison to the financial risk, which is reflected in the formation of expectations of insurance coverage. One...

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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include models accounting for several confounders, regional and...

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Small countries and preferential trade agreements : how severe is the innocent Bystander problem?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2000

This paper examines the welfare implications of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) from the perspective of small countries in the context of a multi-country, general equilibrium model. We calibrate our model to represent one relatively small country and two symmetric big countries. We consider...

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Explaining early adoption on new medicines : regulation, innovation and scale

Varol, Nebibe; Costa-Font, Joan; McGuire, Alistair - 2011

Understanding how price regulations affect the adoption of new patent-protected pharmaceutical technologies is a crucial question in designing health systems. This paper addresses this question by examining how price expectations shape the probability of launch, controlling for competition,...

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Too healthy to fall sick? : longevity expectations and protective health behaviours during the first wave of COVID-19

Celidoni, Martina; Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2022

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health depends more than ever on such protective decisions. This...

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The "demise of the caregiving daughter"? : gender employment gaps and the use of formal and informal care in Europe

Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan - 2023

We revisit the universality of the “caregiving daughter effect”, which holds that daughters tend to provide more care to their older parents than sons. Based on rich European data, we document evidence of such an effect in countries with large gender disparities in employment rates, where...

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The "demise of the caregiving daughter"? : gender employment gaps and the use of formal and informal care in Europe

Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan - 2023

We revisit the universality of the "caregiving daughter effect", which holds that daughters tend to provide more care to their older parents than sons. Based on rich European data, we document evidence of such an effect in countries with large gender disparities in employment rates, where having...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431394

Too healthy to fall sick? : longevity expectations and protective health behaviours during the first wave of Covid-19

Celidoni, Martina; Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2022

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358768

"Globesity"? : the effects of globalization on obesity and caloric intake

Costa-Font, Joan; Mas, Núria - 2014

This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake … globalization and both obesity and caloric intake. A one standard deviation increase in globalization is associated with a 20 … social globalization, and specifically the effects of changes in information flows and social proximity. A one standard …

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