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An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2018
Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...
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Concerns for equity and the optimal co-payments for publicly provided health care
Hoel, Michael - 2005
In countries where health care is publicly provided and where equity considerations play an important role in policy decisions, it is often argued that an increase in co-payments is unacceptable as it will be particularly harmful to the less well-off in society. The present paper derives...
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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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Health System Trust and Compliance with COVID-19 Restrictions
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina - 2023
We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST), and whether changes in HST influence the perceived ease of compliance with pandemic restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on evidence from two representative...
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Growth and enduring epidemic diseases
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2006
This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...
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Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Mansour, Hani - 2020
data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … candidates. Beginning with the 1994 elections, there is a strong, positive association between HIV/AIDS mortality and the vote …
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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of...
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The Effects of Incentivizing Early Prenatal Care on Infant Health
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2022
We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies : Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity
den Bijgaart, Inge van; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2021
Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...
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Health Expenditures and the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Prevention in International Comparison
Hansen, Jaqueline; Reinecke, Antonia; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2021
In the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments had to rely on Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in their struggle against the spread of the virus. The stringency of the lockdowns differed across space and time as governments had to adjust their strategy dynamically to the country-specific...
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