Showing 1 - 10 of 74
We conduct a stated-choice experiment where respondents are asked to rate various insurance products aimed to protect … equilibrium for long-term care insurance using the framework developped by Einav et al. (2010). We investigate in turn causes for … the low observed take-up of long-term care insurance in Canada despite substantial residual out-of-pocket financial risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735985
In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this … efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of … the higher educated to be more efficient users of health investment - intelligent individuals have a clear survival …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464787
In a model where consumers have quasi-hyperbolic preferences, we compare immediate subsidies paid for health …-conscious consumption and future subsidies rewarding good health outcome. We characterize the subsidy rates which implement the unbiased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420788
Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532122
When traditional methods for measuring economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, heights and BMIs are now well accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374201
Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of … to identify the treatment effect of urbanization on the self-assessed health of individuals. The results reveal important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377598
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381036
death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334361
This paper tries to establish who carries the burden in supporting reproductive health and AIDS programs worldwide. The … assistance in matters of reproductive health and AIDS. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by funds and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348349
This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317439