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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...

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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 …

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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...

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Optimal unemployment insurance design : time limits, monitoring, or workfare?

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003

This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of...

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Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility

Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten - 2019

We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the...

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Political preferences for redistribution in Sweden

Bastani, Spencer; Lundberg, Jacob - 2016

We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971-2012 using the inverse optimal tax approach. The income distribution is carefully characterized with the help of administrative register data and we employ behavioral elasticities reflecting the perceived distortionary...

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Political preferences for redistribution in Sweden

Bastani, Spencer; Lundberg, Jacob - 2016

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Mixed logit estimation of the value of travel time

Algers, Staffan; Bergström, Pål; Dahlberg, Matz; … - 1998

In this paper we use mixed logit specifications to allow parameters to vary in the population when estimating the value of time for long-distance car travel. Our main conclusion is that the estimated value of time is very sensitive to how the model is specified: we find that it is significantly...

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Bequest motives : a comparison of Sweden and the United States

Laitner, John; Ohlsson, Henry - 1998

data from Sweden (LLS) and the U.S. (PSID). The so-called altruistic (or dynastic) model, which, among the four models, has …

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Time diary measures of investment in young children

Klevmarken, Anders; Stafford, Frank P. - 1997

care settings. Estimates are given for Sweden and the U.S. The mere size of the total of these investments in early human … capital, more than 20 percent of GDP for Sweden, raises a number of interesting questions. …

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