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Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Berniell, Inés; Fernández, Raquel; Krutikova, Sonya - 2023

: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …

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Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls' trajectories : evidence from a field experiment in India

Andrew, Alison; Krutikova, Sonya; Smarrelli, Gabriela; … - 2022

Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps … gender norms. In this study, we design an experiment to compare the effectiveness of targeting only adolescent girls with an … approach that additionally engages with the enforcers of gender norms in the wider community. We ﬁnd that both arms of the …

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Intergenerational income mobility in England and the importance of education

Carneiro, Pedro; Cattan, Sarah; Dearden, Lorraine; … - 2022

country for men, and more than 45% of the variation for women. This indicates that education policy has an important role to …

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Age and choice in health insurance : evidence from Switzerland

Becker, Karolin (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2007 - Revised version

Elements of regulation inherent in most social health insurance systems are a uniform package of benefits and uniform cost sharing. Both elements risk to burden the population with a welfare loss if preferences differ. This suggests introducing more contracted choice; however, it is widely...

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Validity and reliability of willingness-to-pay estimates : evidence from two overlapping discrete-choice experiments

Telser, Harry (contributor); Becker, Karolin (contributor); … - 2008 - Revised version March 2008

Discrete-choice experiments, while becoming increasingly popular, have rarely been tested for validity and reliability. This contribution purports to provide some evidence of a rather unique type. Two surveys designed to measure willingness-to-accept (WTA) for reform options in Swiss health care...

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Cost sharing in health insurance : an instrument for risk selection?

Becker, Karolin (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2005

Health insurance is potentially subject to risk selection, i.e. adverse selection on the part of consumers and cream skimming on the part of insurers. Adverse selection models predict that competitive health insurers can eschew high-risk individuals by offering contracts with low deductibles or...

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Consumer resistance against regulation : the case of health care

Zweifel, Peter (contributor); Telser, Harry (contributor); … - 2005

Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment designed to measure the amounts of compensation asked by the Swiss population (in terms of reduced premiums) for Managed-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It...

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Is the welfare state sustainable? : experimental evidence on citizens' preferences for redistribution

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010

The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens’ preferences for income redistribution. They are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its uses (the unemployed, old-age pensioners,...

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Economic well-being, social mobility, and preferences for income redistribution : evidence from a discrete choice experiment

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010 - Revised version

(Swiss, Western European, others). Willingness to pay for redistribution increases with income and education, contradicting …

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GPs' preferences: what price fee-for-service?

Zweifel, Peter; Rischatsch, Maurus; Brändle, Angelika - 2009

In mixed health care systems a crucial condition for the success of Managed Care (MC) plans is to win over a su±cient number of general practitioners (GPs) acting as gatekeepers. This contribution reports on GPs' willingness-to-accept (WTA) or compensation asked, respectively, for changing from...

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