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Welfare economic analysis of health issues and policies can provide well balanced orderings of the state of the economy …, health outcomes and social welfare for both a developing and a developed country. Economic growth can increase health … negative externalities which reduce health outcomes (particularly when biological health limits are reached). A new health …
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correlation between income and health meets the requirement, while the concentration index only meets the requirement in a … income. Using data from HUNT, income changes account for 90% of the changes in the concentration index, while health and …We study how measures of socioeconomic health inequality inform about welfare inequality. We argue that transfers of …
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interventions? One way is to use survey-based welfare indicators such as the OECD Better Life Index. It invites people to weight a …
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Physical stature is used as a proxy for the biological standard of living in the two Germanies before and after unification in an analysis of a cross-sectionalsample (1998) of adult heights, as well as among military recruits of the1990s. West Germans tended to be taller than East Germans...
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We develop a programming algorithm that predicts a balanced-panel mix-adjusted house price index for arbitrary spatial …
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The paper presents a general theory of the aggregation of prices and quantities that unifies the field and relates … topics that in the past have been treated separately and unsatisfactorily, or not at all. The theory does without the common … the theory lead to Törnqvist indexes defined on the appropriate data set. A numerical example confirms that in the non …
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The production index is an important indicator for assessing the cyclical state of the economy. Unfortunately, the …
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Socio-economic differences in longevity have fuelled a debate whether pension systems have a regressive bias favouring groups with a high life expectancy. We show that the distributional implications of such pooling depend critically on the benefit profile across age/time, which in turn is...
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This paper uses a seasonal long-memory model to capture the behaviour of the US Industrial Production Index (IPI) over …
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some of the consequences for economic policy and for economic theory. …
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