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In this paper, we give a new insight on the relationship between the patients' co-payment for buying pharmaceuticals and the price of a patented pharmaceutical. We consider that the price of a pharmaceutical is the outcome of a negotiation between a health authority and a pharmaceutical monopoly...
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reimbursement rules, including the asymmetric reimbursement structure prescribed in many U.S. environmental laws. Results suggest … that reimbursement increases the social cost of enforcement, and in the case of asymmetric reimbursement, the increased …
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In 2000, government deregulation along with the introduction of the long-term insurance scheme allowed for-profit providers of at-home care for the elderly to compete directly with nonprofit operators. According to the contract failure hypothesis, we would expect consumers to prefer nonprofit...
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This paper employs U.S. metropolitan data to investigate the relationship between mortality rate and the business cycle. We utilize mortality and employment data that are specific to a given city, year and race/ethnic group. The analysis improves upon the existing literature by analyzing the...
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This note introduces a generalized version of multi-component decomposition method, which disintegrates a growth rate of an index into the roles of individual components. The method can be applied to two classes of indices: the additive-product form and the product-additive form. The application...
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We consider a model of vaccine market where the buyer is centralized and shows an endogenous demand function based on a simple stochastic SIR model. When the seller is a monopoly, we show that better vaccines (in the sense of greater efficiency or inducing less side-effects) do not imply greater...
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Using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey of 2007-2008, this paper presents estimates of the burden of undiagnosed pre-diabetes and racial disparities of the same in the US population. The true burden of undiagnosed pre-diabetes is found to be considerably more than the numbers...
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Smoking is a leading cause for diseases and death. Information on factors affecting the smoking status is useful for policies on smoking reduction, especially in developing countries. This paper examines to what extent individuals' characteristics are correlated with the smoking status using a...
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In this work, we study whether labour and leisure costs reported by informal caregivers must be analysed separately, using two comparable Spanish samples, for the years 1994 and 2004. We do this since informal care introduces an additional time constraint on the individual, which complicates the...
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To test potential bilateral causalities relation between HIV-AIDS mortality and GDP, we propose a simple Granger noncausality test for heterogeneous panel data models. 44 African countries are selected for annual pooled data from 1990 to 2009. Results are presented for the heterogeneous...
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