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Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2010
We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect of (i) introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and (ii) increasing competition through lower transportation costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number...
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How is the Trade-Off between Adverse Selection and Discrimination Risk Affected by Genetic Testing? Theory and Experiment
Bardey, David - 2017
We compare two genetic testing regulations, Disclosure Duty (DD) and Consent Law (CL), in an environment where individuals choose to take a genetic test or not. DD forces agents to reveal the test results to their insurers, resulting in a discrimination risk. CL allows agents to withhold that...
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Is Medicines Parallel Trade 'Regulatory Arbitrage'?
Costa-Font, Joan - 2015
regulation, and not by price differences in line with the hypothesis of ‘regulatory arbitrage' …
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Reference Pricing, Competition, and Pharmaceutical Expenditures: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2010
We study the impact of regulation on competition between brand-names and generics and pharmaceutical expenditures using … a unique policy experiment in Norway, where reference pricing (RP) replaced price cap regulation in 2003 for a sub …-sample of off-patent products. First, we construct a vertical differentiation model to analyze the impact of regulation on …
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Globalization, Gender and Development : The Effect of Parental Labor Supply on Child Schooling
Ural Marchand, Beyza P. - 2011
Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the relative bargaining power within …
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Gender Unemployment Catching-Up : Empirical Evidence from Italian Regions
Belloc, Marianna - 2011
We study the persistence of the gender unemployment gap in the Italian regions in the 1992-2009 period. Results from … unit-root tests analysis with structural break suggest that the process of gender catching-up in the unemployment rates is …
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Inaccurate Age and Sex Data in the Census PUMS Files : Evidence and Implications
Alexander, J. Trent - 2011
We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files...
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Will Women Save More than Men? A Theoretical Model of Savings and Marriage
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2010
marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles … traditional gender roles and marital status to understanding cross-country variation in gender differentials in savings behavior …
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Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection : An Empirical Analysis
Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2010
A growing theoretical literature on the effect of politicians' salaries on the average level of skills of political candidates yields ambiguous predictions. In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on the level of education of parliamentary candidates. We take advantage of an...
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Beyond Ramsey : Gender-Based Taxation with Non-Cooperative Couples
Meier, Volker - 2012
This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non-cooperative model of a couple's time … by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative marginal rates of substitution between the public household good and … sharp contrast to previous models of gender-based taxation in which households select Pareto efficient allocations …
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