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The value of socialized medicine : the impact of universal primary healthcare provision on birth and mortality rates in Turkey

Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...

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Foreign physicians : discriminatory patient preferences and doctor availability

Walker, Brigham; Wisniewski, Janna; Tinkler, Sarah Elizabeth - 2023

Roughly a quarter of physicians in the United States are either international medical graduates (IMGs) or foreign …-born physicians (FBPs). We propose a theoretical model where patient preferences that disfavor IMGs and FBPs may result in those … physicians offering better access to their services compared with non-IMGs/FBPs in equilibrium. We use data from two field …

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Spurring economic growth through human development : research results and guidance for policymakers

Bloom, David E.; Khoury, Alexander; Kufenko, Vadim; … - 2020

Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these domains can also promote economic growth. This paper argues for the importance of human development related investments based on i) a theoretical economic growth model with poverty...

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An ounce of prevention for a pound of cure : efficiency of community-based healthcare

Antonella Bancalari, Antonella; Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, … - 2023

We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle-income countries for primary healthcare delivery. We exploit the rollout of a nation-wide expansion of coverage to this model in El Salvador. Using a panel dataset of...

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Monopsony in growth theory

Garibaldi, Pietro; Turri, Enrico D. - 2024

The neoclassical growth model assumes fixed labor supply and competitive labor markets. Is it harmless to ignore monopsonistic power in the neoclassical growth model? The paper argues that it is not, especially if a growth model needs to be consistent with the long-run dynamics of the labor...

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Untimely destruction: pestilence, war and accumulation in the long run

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans; Komarov, Evgenij - 2019

This paper analyses the effects of disease and war on the accumulation of human and physical capital. We employ an overlapping-generations frame-work in which young adults, confronted with such hazards and motivated by old-age provision and altruism, make decisions about investments in schooling...

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An apple a day? : adult food stamp eligibility and health care utilization among immigrants

East, Chloe N.; Friedson, Andrew - 2018

In this study, we document the effect of Food Stamp access on adult health care utilization. While Food Stamps is one of the largest safety net programs in the U.S. today, the universal nature of the program across geographic areas and over time limits the potential for quasi-experimental...

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Estimating inter-generational returns to medical care : new evidence from at-risk newborns

Clarke, Damian; Lillo Bustos, Nicolás; Tapia Schythe, … - 2022

Targeted treatments of newborns with delicate health stocks have been shown to have considerable returns in terms of survival and later life outcomes. We seek to determine to what degree such treatments are transmitted across generations. We follow three generations of linked micro-data from...

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The economic burden of chronic diseases : estimates and projections for China, Japan and South Korea

Bloom, David E.; Chen, Simiao; Kuhn, Michael; McGovern, … - 2017

We propose a novel framework to analyse the macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone...

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Promoting breast cancer screening take-ups with zero cost : evidence from an experiment on formatting invitation letters in Italy

Bertoni, Marco; Corazzini, Luca; Robone, Silvana - 2019

We ran a randomized field experiment to ascertain whether a costless manipulation of the informational content (restricted or enhanced information) and the framing (gain or loss framing) of the invitation letter to the breast cancer screening program in Messina, Italy, affects the take-up rate....

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