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Water Nationalization: network access, water quality, and health outcomes
Borraz, Fernando; González, Nicolás; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In the case of natural monopolies there tends to be a trade-off between a higher quality of output provided by private firms, and a better access for poor consumers provided by public firms. This is partly the reflection of differences in objectives by private and public firms. The former tend...
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Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and … marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs combined reduce STI more, but cut dropout and pregnancy less, than … education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy …
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Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Using exceptionally rich linked administrative and survey information on German welfare recipients we investigate the health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find...
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Sinking, Swimming, or Learning to Swim in Medicare Part D
Ketcham, Jonathan D.; Lucarelli, Claudio; Miravete, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Under Medicare Part D, senior citizens choose prescription drug insurance offred by numerous private insurers. We examine non-poor enrollees' actions in 2006 and 2007 using panel data. Our sample reduced overspending by $298 on average, with gains by 81% of them. The greatest improvements were...
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Breakdown of Will and the Value of Information
Kuehn, Astrid; Wambach, Achim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
It is commonly observed that people refuse to obtain more detailed infor- mation about their health status, e. g. by not taking genetic tests, even if this information is costless and only disclosed to the individual. This observation is in contrast to the predictions of expected utility theory....
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Do Non-standard Working Hours Cause Negative Health Effects? Some Evidence from Panel Data
Ulker, Aydogan - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
What does the around-the-clock economic activity mean for workers’ health? Despite the fact that non-standard work accounts for an increasing share of the job opportunities, relatively little is known about the potential consequences for health and the existing evidence is ambiguous. In this...
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The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution
Acemoglu, Daron; Cantoni, Davide; Johnson, Simon; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The French Revolution of 1789 had a momentous impact on neighboring countries. The French Revolutionary armies during the 1790s and later under Napoleon invaded and controlled large parts of Europe. Together with invasion came various radical institutional changes. French invasion removed the...
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Explaining Differences in Hospital Performance: Does the Answer Lie in the Labour Market?
Burgess, Simon; Gossage, Denise; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper examines the relationship between performance of English public sector hospitals (NHS trusts) and the quality of their nursing staff. Performance ratings of NHS trusts published in 2001 and 2002 indicate a clear regional divide. This divide is not explained by lower medical need. The...
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Death and Development
Lorentzen, Peter L.; McMillan, John; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behaviour, higher fertility, and lower investment in physical and human...
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Competition and Quality: Evidence from the NHS Internal Market 1991-9
Burgess, Simon; Gossage, Denise; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Payer-driven competition has been widely advocated as a means of increasing efficiency in health care markets. The 1990s reforms to the UK health service followed this path. We examine whether competition led to better outcomes for patients, as measured by death rates after treatment following...
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