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Incorporating Inequality Aversion in Health-Care Priority Setting

Costa-Font, Joan - 2019

Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an overview of the literature on the measurement of...

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Medical Innovations and Ageing : A Health Economics Perspective

Grossmann, Volker - 2021

This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health innovations. Particular focus is on the endogeneity of...

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Health and Economic Growth : Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

Bloom, David E.; Kotschy, Rainer; Prettner, Klaus; … - 2022

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either negative and close to zero or positive and an order of magnitude larger than the range of estimates derived from the...

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Family Planning and Climate Change

Gerlagh, Reyer - 2019

the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …

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Fertility Cost, Intergenerational Labor Division, and Female Employment

Yu, Haiyue - 2019

China has set to increase the minimum retirement age, to ease the pressure from pension expenditure and the falling labor supply caused by the aging population. However, policy debates have so far neglected the crucial fact that families in China largely rely on retired grandparents for...

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Fertility Changes and Replacement Migration

Aksoy, Yunus - 2020

significant negative statistical relationship between 16 years lagged fertility and the rate of immigration in a panel of 23 … countries, which indicates that immigration compensates for low fertility in the labor market …

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Fertility and Modernity

Spolaore, Enrico - 2019

We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of … new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education …

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Discrimination in Hiring Based on Potential and Realized Fertility : Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2019

’s perspective, in their fertile age they are also at “risk” of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms …

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Birth in Times of War - an Investigation of Health, Mortality and Social Class Using Historical Clinical Records

Geiger, Nadine - 2019

While World War II (WWII) is often employed as natural experiment to identify long-term effects of adverse early-life and prenatal conditions, little is known about the short-term effects. We estimate the short-term impact of the onset of WWII on newborn health using a unique data set of...

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

Baranowska-Rataj, Anna - 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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