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This paper reconsiders the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income using a panel of … cointegration properties between health care spending and income. This is done in a panel data context controlling for both cross … dependence. Heterogeneity is handled through fixed effects in a panel homogeneous model and through a panel heterogeneous model …
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We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency considerations, which are organized around three...
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Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …
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changes in BP in a high-income country. We use data from clinical health assessments carried out in 2010 (baseline) and 2014 …
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Using the 2006-07 American Time Use Survey and its Eating and Health Module, I show that over half of adult Americans report grazing (secondary eating/drinking) on a typical day, with grazing time almost equaling primary eating/drinking time. An economic model predicts that higher wage rates...
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Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … panel LS regressions with individual fixed effects, none of the income variables was significant for the highly educated. … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …
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government expenditures (including Social Security and income assistance). Together, the reduction in smoking and the rise in …
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health spending (insurance 29% and technology 24%) while income less than 10%. By simultaneously occurring over this period … 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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This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation … and reference income (defined as the income of one's professional peers), and hinges on the micro-econometric analysis of … household survey data (mostly panel), including subjective attitudinal questions. Using over one million observations, it …
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; relative income ; life satisfaction ; German Socio Economic Panel Study ; SOEP … income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask …
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