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Health system trust and compliance with Covid-19 restrictions

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2023

We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST), and whether changes in HST influence the perceived ease of compliance with pandemic restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on evidence from two representative...

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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...

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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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The "Great Lockdown": inactive workers and mortality by Covid-19

Borri, Nicola; Drago, Francesco; Santantonio, Chiara; … - 2020

Italian Government imposed an economic lockdown and ordered the closing of all non-essential economic activities. This paper … effect exploits the variation in the number of active workers across municipalities induced by the economic lockdown. The … of active population before and after the lockdown within a province, also controlling for municipality-specific dynamics …

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Drivers of Covid-19 vaccinations : vaccine administration and delivery efficiency in the United States

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021

drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US …

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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...

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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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The common interests of health protection and the economy : evidence from scenario calculations of Covid-19 containment policies

Dorn, Florian; Khailaie, Sahamoddin; Stoeckli, Marc; … - 2022

We develop a novel approach integrating epidemiological and economic models that allows databased simulations during a pandemic. We examine the economically optimal opening strategy that can be reconciled with the containment of a pandemic. The empirical evidence is based on data from Germany...

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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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