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Australia affected by the income threshold at which the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS) kicks in? We propose a new difference de … health insurance in Australia using contaminated data. …
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We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …
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in the geographical coverage and timing of construction of safe government piped water schemes to identify the effects of …
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We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … Lifestyles (Natsal2, conducted in 2000-2001 and Natsal3, conducted in 2010-2012) to illustrate the changes in demand that have … taken place across the two waves. We do not find demand decreasing in our sample and find a shift in the composition of …
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59% of the rise in life expectancy at age 50 over this period while insurance and income explain less than 10%. -- Demand …
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help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public …
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This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish … between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand … equations. We find evidence of negative transitory wage effects, and positive permanent effects. Estimation results based on our …
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Expanding insurance coverage could, by insulating patients from having to pay full cost, encourage the utilization of arguably unnecessary medical services. It could also eliminate (or at least diminish) the need for emergency services through increasing access to preventive care. Using publicly...
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demand for subsidized child care slots is estimated using a partial observability model in the style of Abowd and Farber …
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We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …
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