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A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? Cross-Country and Longitudinal Evidence

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Hernandez-Quevedo, Cristina; Sato, Azusa - 2013

The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets' curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape...

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Social Identity and Redistributive Preferences: A Survey

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - 2013

Social identity has become accepted as a key concept underpinning the endogeneity of economic behaviour and preferences. It is important in explaining attitudes towards redistribution and pro-social behaviour. We examine how economic theory measures social identity and its effects on preferences...

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How Does Exposure to Covid-19 Influence Health and Income Inequality Aversion?

Asaria, Miqdad; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - 2021

We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the population in each country. Comparing levels of...

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Do Economic Recessions ‘Squeeze the Middle-Class’?

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-i-Font, Joan - 2017

Economic downturns give rise to unexpected employment shocks that can reshape the distribution of population income, and hence produce a “middle-class squeeze”. However, there is limited empirical evidence testing the latter. This paper aims at testing the ‘middle-class squeeze’...

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Regional Health Care Decentralization in Unitary States: Equal Spending, Equal Satisfaction?

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Turati, Gilberto - 2016

Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed light on this question by drawing on unique evidence from the largest European unitary states to have engaged in countrywide health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We...

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Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2019

We study the health effects of the spread of democratic institutions and the extension of voting rights in 15 European countries since the middle of the nineteenth century. We employ both cross country and cohort variation in heights and employ a new instrument for democracy and the extension of...

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Does cost sharing really reduce inappropriate prescriptions?

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Gemmill-Toyama, Marin - 2010

This paper explores different empirical strategies to examine the effect of cost sharing for prescription drugs in some dimensions of medication-related quality, namely the probability of inappropriate prescription drug use among United States seniors. Using data from 1996 to 2005, we explore...

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Preterm Births and Educational Disadvantage: Heterogeneous Effects Across Families and Schools

Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; Barclay, Kieron; Costa-i-Font, Joan - 2019

Using Swedish population register data on cohorts born 1982-1994 (N=1,087,750), we examine the effects of preterm births on school grades using sibling fixed effect models which compare individuals with their non-preterm siblings. We test for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as...

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'Globesity'? The Effects of Globalization on Obesity and Caloric Intake

Costa-i-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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