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Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...
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This paper estimates a theory-guided gravity equation of regional patient flows. In our model, a patient’s choice to consult a physician in a particular region depends on a measure of spatial accessibility that accounts for the exact locations of both patients and physicians. Introducing this...
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Decisions on public health measures to contain a pandemic are often based on parameters such as expected disease burden and additional mortality due to the pandemic. Both pandemics and non-pharmaceutical interventions to fight pandemics, however, produce economic, social, and medical costs. The...
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estimate the taxable income elasticity at a very large kink point of the Swedish tax schedule using the bunching method. During … bounds on the long-run elasticity than previous studies. If wage earners on average tolerate 1% of their disposable income in … optimization costs, the upper bound on the long-run taxable income elasticity is 0.39. We also evaluate the performance of the …
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such as a tariff or carbon tax affecting international and internal income distributions through a Heckscher-Ohlin nexus of … environmental externality such as carbon emissions, and I assume a high income elasticity of demand for environmental quality. I … analyze how per-capita income levels of and differences between two countries affect their abatement efforts in a …
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This paper investigates the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income in the world … in the form of either a common factor model or a spatial process. We estimate a global measure of income elasticity using … all countries in the sample, and for sub-groups of countries, depending on their geo-political area and income. Our …
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can get an estimate of the taxable income elasticity from the bunching pattern around a kink point. The bunching estimator … cannot identify the taxable income elasticity when the functional form of the distribution of preference heterogeneity is … unknown. We find that an observed distribution of taxable income around a kink point in a budget set can be consistent with …
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personal income, higher unemployment rates and lower urban population shares. There is no evidence for an asymmetry in the … recent policy debate about the impact of gasoline tax holidays on consumers' discretionary income, about the demand …
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Social justice is a topic of importance to social scientists and also political decision makers. We examine the relationship between globalization and social justice as measured by a new indicator for 31 OECD countries. The results show that countries that experienced rapid globalization enjoy...
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