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more likely to have private health insurance. Larger winners are also more likely to drop coverage earlier, possibly after …We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in … the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services …
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crucial question in designing health systems. This paper addresses this question by examining how price expectations shape the …
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efficiency and stimulates pharmaceutical innovation. There is no prior study that has empirically analysed the relative delays in …
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, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …
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We study whether exposure to COVID-19 has affected individual aversion to health and income inequality in the UK, Italy … unemployment), income and health directly linked to COVID-19. We find that conditioned on risk aversion and relevant covariates … (income, education, demographics), individuals who have experienced either a health or an financial shock during the COVID-19 …
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The association between occupational status and health has been taken to reveal the presence of health inequalities … shaped by occupational status. However, that interpretation assumes no influence of health status in explaining occupational … standing. This paper documents evidence of non-negligible returns to occupation status on health (which we refer as ‘healthy …
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We examine the persistence of the association between subjective health assessments of both first and second …-generation migrants with that of their country of origin. To mitigate potential selection bias, we use European data containing records … variables including citizenship and cultural proxies. Our results show robust evidence of persistence of health assessments, and …
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The effect of insurance expansions on the distribution of health status is still a matter we know little about. This … understand how an expansion of public insurance affects both inequality and mobility in health. These measures require a measure … paper draws upon new measures of pure health inequality and mobility in health which accommodates categorical data to …
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The distribution of income related health inequalities appear to exhibit varying patterns when developing countries and … developed countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets' curve. This paper sets out as an … per capita) and income inequalities in health (as measured by concentration indices). We draw upon two datasets, the World …
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Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting...
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