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Regional health care decentralization in unitary states : equal spending, equal satisfaction?

Costa-Font, Joan; Turati, Gilberto - 2016

health care decentralization in both countries. We find no evidence of increase in regional inequalities in outcomes and … outputs in the examined period. Inequalities are accounted for by differences in health system design. …

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Changing current net nutrition with weight as a measure of net nutritional change with the transition from bound to free labor : a difference-in-decompositions approach

Carson, Scott Alan - 2019

A population's weight conditioned on height reflects its current net nutrition and demonstrates health variation during economic development. This study builds on the use of weight as a measure for current net nutrition and uses a difference-in-decompositions technique to illustrate how black...

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Assessing cumulative net nutrition and the transition from 19th century bound to free-labor by ethnic status

Carson, Scott Alan - 2017

Average stature reflects cumulative net nutrition and health during economic development. This study introduces a difference-in-decompositions approach to show that although 19th century African-American cumulative net nutrition was comparable to working class whites, it was made worse-off with...

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The 19th century net nutrition transition from free to bound labor : a difference-in-decompositions approach

Carson, Scott Alan - 2018

The body mass index (BMI) reflects current net nutrition and health during economic development. This study introduces a difference-in-decompositions approach to show that although 19th century African-American current net nutrition was comparable to working class whites, it was made worse-off...

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Working time regulation, unequal lifetimes and fairness

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2016

uniform working time reductions, when uncompensated (i.e. constant hourly wage), can reduce inequalities in realized lifetime …-lived better off, but at the cost of raising inequalities. Then, we characterize the ex post egalitarian optimum, where the …-best egalitarian argument for age-dependent working time regulation, which can make the short-lived better off and reduce inequalities …

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