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Medical innovations and ageing : a health economics perspective

Grossmann, Volker - 2021

This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health innovations. Particular focus is on the endogeneity of...

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Do pandemics change healthcare? : evidence from the great influenza

Esteves, Rui Pedro; Mitchener, Kris; Nencka, Peter; … - 2022

Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We … access to healthcare. We do not find evidence that government-run hospitals or other types of city-level spending related to … healthcare responded to pandemic intensity, suggesting that large health shocks do not necessarily lead to increased public …

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Long-run consequences of exposure to natural disasters

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Wray, Anthony - 2016

We utilize the individual-level World War I Draft Registration Cards matched to late-nineteenth century hurricane paths and the 1940 U.S. Census to explore whether fetal and early childhood exposure to stress caused by hurricanes affects human capital development and labor market outcomes in...

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Emotion research in economics

Wälde, Klaus - 2016

Emotions were central to the development of economics, especially in utility theory in classical economics. While neoclassical utility theory basically abolished emotions, behavioural economics more recently reintroduced emotions in utility theory. Beyond utility theory, economic theorists use...

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Parents under stress : evaluating emergency childcare policies during the first Covid-19 lockdown in Germany

Schüller, Simone; Steinberg, Hannah S. - 2021

What are the effects of school and daycare facility closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on parental well-being and parenting behavior? Can emergency childcare policies during a pandemic mitigate increases in parental stress and negative parenting behavior? To answer these questions, this study...

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Increased instruction time and stress-related health problems among school children

Marcus, Jan; Reif, Simon; Wuppermann, Amelie; Rouche, … - 2019

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific elements of schooling, empirical evidence on this causal relationship is scarce. We examine a German schooling reform that increased weekly instruction time and study its...

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Stress and coping : an economic approach

Wälde, Klaus - 2018

We present a psychological model of stress. Appraisal translates stressors into subjective stress. Stress reduces instantaneous utility of an individual directly and via cognitive load. Coping can be under the control of the individual or more automatic. We predict the occurrence of uncontrolled...

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Running the U.S. economy at full throttle is a stressful variant of capitalism

Komlos, John - 2022

Maximizing output without taking into consideration the negative externalities generated, including the harm to the mental and physical health of the population creates psychological stress. Focusing on the bellwether indicators of economic performance including working more, generating income,...

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Bureaucratic frictions and innovation procurement

Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Raiteri, Emilio - 2023

US federal agency, we investigate how officer workload impacts innovation procurement outcomes. Unanticipated retirement … shifts provide an exogenous source of variation that we exploit as an instrument for workload. When workload declines, we …

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Social distancing and risk taking : evidence from a team game show

Bourgeon, Jean-Marc; Sousa, José de; Noir-Luhalwe, Alexis - 2022

We examine the risky choices of pairs of contestants in a popular radio game show in France. At one point during the COVID-19 pandemic the show, held in person, had to switch to an all-remote format. We find that such an exogenous change in social context affected risk-taking behavior. Remotely,...

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