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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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Fallout and fertility : Chernobyl’s legacy and the role of compliance with public protection measures

Giaccherini, Matilde; Kopinska, Joanna - 2024

This paper examines the impact of early-life radiation exposure on adult fertility using a dynamic difference-in-differences approach. Analyzing 18 cohorts of women born between 1976 and 1993 in Italian municipalities, we utilize a radiation exposure indicator and administrative datasets on...

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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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Combatting Covid-19 : on relative performance of the Indian States

Marjit, Sugata; Mukhopadhyay, Anish Kumar; Chatterjee, Medha - 2020

The purpose of this paper is to construct a relative performance index for the States in India in terms of their performance in combatting Covid-19 pandemic. The data is analyzed up to August, 2020, though the methodology used can be readily extended to update the index. The methodology can be...

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Life cycle economics with infectious and chronic diseases

Strulik, Holger; Grossmann, Volker - 2022

In this paper, we develop a life cycle model in which health and longevity are threatened by infectious and chronic diseases. The model captures that the susceptibility and severity of infectious diseases depend on the accumulated health deficits (immunosenescence) and that the life history of...

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Beyond Covid : pandemics and the economics of aging and longevity

Strulik, Holger; Grossmann, Volker - 2024

In this paper, we examine the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on individual aging and longevity with special focus on socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and calibrate a health economic model based on principles...

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Too healthy to fall sick? : longevity expectations and protective health behaviours during the first wave of Covid-19

Celidoni, Martina; Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2022

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health depends more than ever on such protective decisions. This...

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Mexican and Hispanic net nutrition in the 19th century American West

Carson, Scott Alan - 2015

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...

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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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Health and economic growth : reconciling the micro and macro evidence

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Kotschy, Rainer; … - 2022

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either negative and close to zero or positive and an order of magnitude larger than the range of estimates derived from the...

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