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The Impact of New Drug Launches on Hospitalization in 2015 for 67 Medical Conditions in 15 OECD Countries : A Two-Way Fixed-Effects Analysis
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2019
There are two types of prescription drug cost offsets. The first type of cost offset—from prescription drug use—is primarily about the effect of changes in drug quantity (e.g. due to changes in out-of-pocket drug costs) on other medical costs. The second type of cost offset—the cost offset...
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Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Mortality in U.S. Cities During the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919
Barro, Robert J. - 2020
small and statistically insignificant. Â The likely reason that the NPIs were not more successful in curtailing mortality is …
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Linking Changes in Inequality in Life Expectancy and Mortality : Evidence from Denmark and the United States
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2020
We decompose changing gaps in life expectancy between rich and poor into differential changes in age-specific mortality … rates and differences in "survivability". Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life expectancy, but the gain is … inequality in the US and the entire rise in Denmark. Cardiovascular mortality declines favored the poor, but differences in …
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Gender Wage and Longevity Gaps and the Design of Retirement Systems
Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, … - 2021
We study the design of pension benefits for male and female workers. Women live longer than men but have a lower wage. Individuals can be single or live in couples who pool their incomes. Social welfare is utilitarian but an increasing concave transformation of individuals’ lifetime utilities...
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Inequality, Life Expectancy, and the Intragenerational Redistribution Puzzle - Some Experimental Evidence
Krieger, Tim; Meemann, Christine; Traub, Stefan - 2022
relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security … system. We find that mortality risk, when negatively correlated with entitlements, significantly lowers subjects’ willingness …
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Intergenerational Actuarial Fairness When Longevity Increases : Amending the Retirement Age
Bravo, Jorge Miguel; Ayuso, Mercedes; Holzmann, Robert; … - 2021
expectancy uses a Bayesian Model Ensemble approach to stochastic mortality modelling to generate forecasts of intergenerationally …
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Endogenous Longevity and Optimal Tax Progressivity
Heer, Burkhard; Rohrbacher, Stefan - 2021
We study the impact of endogenous longevity on optimal tax progressivity and inequality in an overlapping generations model with skill heterogeneity. Higher tax progressivity decreases both the longevity gap and net income inequality, but at the expense of lower average lifetime and lower...
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Do they know what's at risk? Health risk perception among the Obese
Winter, Joachim; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2012
The perception of disease risks and risky health behaviors are closely associated. In this paper, we investigate the accuracy of disease risk perceptions among obese individuals. We compare subjective risk perceptions for various diseases elicited in the American Life Panel (ALP) to individual's...
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Statistical vs. identified lives in benefit-cost analys
Hammitt, James K.; Treich, Nicolas - 2007
Economic evaluation of projects involving changes in mortality risk conventionally assumes that lives are statistical … mortality risks and policy-induced changes in risk often differ among individuals although these differences are imperfectly …
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On the policy implications of changing longevity
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - 2012
Our societies are witnessing a steady increase in longevity. This demographic evolution is accompanied by some convergence across countries, whereas substantial longevity inequalities persist within nations. The goal of this paper is to survey some crucial implications of changing longevity on...
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