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The economics of transboundary river management

Ansink, Erik; Houba, Harold - 2014

We survey the economics of transboundary river water allocation, which emerged in the 1960s and has matured over the … attention to the strategic aspects of transboundary river water allocation. These strategic aspects are captured by employing … game theory to assess the economics of transboundary river water allocation in a simple model of river sharing. This model …

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Gendered barriers to formal healthcare utilization : modelling healthcare demand in a lowresource setting

Cavatorta, Elisa; Janssens, Wendy; Mesnard, Alice - 2021

This paper develops a model of healthcare demand to study healthcare choices in resourcelimited settings with poor health indicators, especially for women. Using data from rural Nigeria on individual illnesses and injuries as well as the entire portfolio of locally available providers, we...

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Intertemporal and social preferences predict compliance in a social dilemma : an application in the context of COVID-19

Hulsen, Merel A. J. van; Rohde, Kirsten I. M.; Exel, Job van - 2020 - Revision: October 2020

In this paper, we examine the role of intertemporal and social preferences in explaining cooperation in social dilemmas. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic caused an acute social dilemma in the Netherlands. In this dilemma, citizens had to decide whether or not to comply with the personal measures...

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Disentangling Covid-19, economic mobility, and containment policy shocks

Camehl, Annika; Rieth, Malte - 2021

We study the dynamic impact of Covid-19, economic mobility, and containment policy shocks. We use Bayesian panel structural vector autoregressions with daily data for 44 countries, identified through sign and zero restrictions. Incidence and mobility shocks raise cases and deaths significantly...

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Are we overdiagnosing mental illnesses? : evidence from randomly assigned doctors

Bos, Marieke; Hertzberg, Andrew; Liberman, Andres - 2021 - This draft: August 2021

Almost two in 10 adults in the U.S. and Europe are, at any moment in time, diagnosed with a mental illness. This paper asks whether mental illness is over- (or under-) diagnosed, by looking at its causal effect on individuals at the margin of diagnosis. We follow all Swedish men born between...

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Moral barriers to birth control access : how the pill changed Dutch women's lives - when religion did not get in the way

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée - 2021

We investigate how religious beliefs affected the take up of the birth control pill and impacted women's outcomes using the 1970 liberalization of oral contraceptives in the Netherlands. We first document a massive and immediate drop in fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom...

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Long-term returns to local health-care spending

Cerveny, Jakub; Ours, Jan C. van - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of health-care spending on mortality rates of heart attack patients. We relate in-hospital deaths to in-hospital end-oflife spending and post-discharge deaths to post-discharge health-care spending. In our analysis, we use detailed administrative data on...

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Graded return-to-work as a stepping stone to full work resumption

Kools, Lieke; Koning, Pierre - 2018

allocation of trajectories across worker types. To fill this gap, we analyze whether the effectiveness of graded return …

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Multi-store competition : market segmentation or interlacing?

Janssen, Maarten C. W.; Karamychev, Vladimir A.; … - 2004

This paper develops a model for multi-store competition between firms. Using thefact that different firms have different outlets and produce horizontally differentiated goods, we obtain a pure strategy equilibrium where firms choose a different location for each outlet and firms' locations are...

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Estimating public preferences on population health ethics

Allanson, Rory; Robson, Matthew - 2024

We develop a social choice experiment to estimate public preferences on population ethics. Our experiment poses three within-subject treatments in which participants allocate scarce resources to determine the health-related quality-of-life, and existence, of two population groups. Within a...

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