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Optimal travel restrictions in epidemics
Shi, Wei; Qiu, Yun; Yu, Pei; Chen, Xi - 2022
initial outbreaks. Uncoordinated travel restrictions ignore policy externalities and therefore are sub-optimal in comparison …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198844
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Gatekeeping in health care
Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Nuscheler, Robert (contributor) - 2005
We study the competitive effects of restricting direct access to secondary care by gatekeeping, focusing on the informational role of general practitioners (GPs). In the secondary care market there are two hospitals choosing quality and specialisation. Patients, who are ex ante uninformed, can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003201758
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Optimal lockdown and social welfare
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2020
This paper reexamines the design of the optimal lockdown strategy by paying attention to its robustness to the … postulated social welfare criterion. We first characterize optimal lockdown under utilitarianism, and we show that this social …-maximal lockdown saving lives at the cost of reducing average utility at a given period, there exists always a stricter lockdown, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313558
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Sterilization policy with incomplete information: Peru 1995-2000
Rendón, Sílvio - 2020
In this research I investigate what percentage of female sterilizations performed in Peru from 1993 to 2000 were done providing adequate information to their users for a free decision about their adoption. I use data from ENDES/DHS 2000, which contains detailed information about contraceptive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315404
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Sterilization policy with incomplete information in Peru: does history repeat itself?
Jimènez, Bruno; Rendón, Sílvio - 2020
We contrast the socio-demographic profiles and degree of information received by women that were sterilized with women that used other contraceptive methods. We use data from the 2016 round of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Peru and compare these profiles with those of the 2000s,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315486
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Altruism, fertility, and the value of children : health policy evaluation and intergenerational welfare
Birchenall, Javier A. (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express adults' willingness to pay for changes in child mortality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003594436
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The evaluation of community-based interventions : group randomization, limits and alternatives
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Baltussen, Rob M. P. M.; … - 2000
The context of community-based interventions presents formidable problems for any evaluation analysis. Group-randomized studies do possess ideal properties in theory, but in practice, grouprandomization might not be a feasible alternative at all or group-randomized studies might be contaminated....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339092
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Concerns for equity and the optimal co-payments for publicly provided health care
Hoel, Michael (contributor) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297601
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Why do Indian children work, and is it bad for them?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2000
The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. The complex interactions uncovered by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415593
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Consumption smoothing in the demand for health care
Kristensen, Nicolai; Lindegaard Andersen, Henrik - 2016
We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this depends on whether the service is universally free-of-charge visits to GP's or privately co-financed dental care. We find that own expenditures for dental care decrease. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450026