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Medication against conflict
Berlanda, Andrea; Cervellati, Matteo; Esposito, Elena; … - 2022
-retroviral therapy (ART) to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic - in Africa. To identify the effect, we combine exogenous variation in the scope …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167946
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171007
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Voting and political participation in the aftermath of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.; Reeves, James - 2020
data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … candidates. Beginning with the 1994 elections, there is a strong, positive association between HIV/AIDS mortality and the vote …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249235
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An equilibrium model of the African HIV/AIDS epidemic
Greenwood, Jeremy; Kircher, Philipp - 2018
Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897628
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An assessment of the impact of HIV/AIDS on economic growth : the case of Kenya
Were, Maureen; Nafula, Nancy N. - 2003
HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa has been closely associated with adverse economic effects, and could thwart the success of … poverty reduction initiatives. HIV/AIDS is fast eroding the health benefits, which Kenya gained in the first two decades of … independence. The paper explores the different channels through which HIV/AIDS affects economic growth in a low-income country like …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509459
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Growth and enduring epidemic diseases
Bell, Clive (contributor); Gersbach, Hans (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003364203
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374201
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Health insurance and diversity of treatment : a policy mix perspective
Bardey, David; Jullien, Bruno; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - 2013
We determine the optimal health policy mix when the average utility of patients increases with the supply of drugs available in a therapeutic class. Health risk coverage rely on two instruments, copayment and reference pricing, that affect the supported risk composed by health expenses and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009707634
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Financing and funding health care : optimal policy and political implementability
Nuscheler, Robert; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
Health care financing and funding are usually analyzed in isolation. This paper combines the corresponding strands of the literature and thereby advances our understanding of the important interaction between them. We investigate the impact of three modes of health care financing, namely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383333
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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