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An City-Level Analysis of Mortality and the Business Cycle across Racial and Ethnic Groups
Gonzalez, Fidel; Quast, Troy; Fontenla, Matias - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2511-2521
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 … relationship to vary according to the level of economic activity in that metropolitan area. We find that while overall mortality is …
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Nonprofit and for-profit providers in Japan's at-home care industry: evidence on quality of service and household choice
Shimizutani, Satoshi; Noguchi, Haruko - In: Economics Bulletin 9 (2005) 3, pp. 1-13
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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A note on the decomposition technique of economic indices
Mori, Kota; Chen, Joe; Choi, Yun Jeong; Sawada, Yasuyuki; … - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 2710-2715
-product form and the product-additive form. The application to the Japanese mortality rate of cardiac disease is provided. …
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Are better vaccines really better? The case of a simple stochastic epidemic SIR model
Houy, Nicolas - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 207-216
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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Prevalence Rates and Racial disparities in undiagnosed pre-diabetes in the US population: Evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey of 2007-08
Ray, Achintya - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 4, pp. 3240-3252
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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Demographic and Socio-economic Determinants of Smoking Behavior: Evidence from Vietnam
Nguyen, Cuong Viet - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2300-2312
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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Labour and leisure costs of informal caregivers
Marcén, Miriam - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 449-455
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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HIV/AIDS-GDP Nexus? Evidence from panel-data for African countries
Amiri, Arshia; Gerdtham, Ulf-g; Ventelou, Bruno - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 1060-1067
To test potential bilateral causalities relation between HIV-AIDS mortality and GDP, we propose a simple Granger … mortality rate to GDP (43% from total), and 4 are from GDP to HIV mortality rate (9% from total). These results alert for the …
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On the way of tobacco quitting: A VAR approach
Vaillant, Nicolas Gérard; lakhdar, Christian Ben; … - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 4, pp. 3253-3258
In order to describe the process of tobacco quitting, we perform a VAR model and causality tests both on the monthly sales of tobacco products and nicotine dependence drugs in France, for the period going from February 2004 to April 2009. According to the path of tobacco quitting found out, it...
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Duration of Sick Leave, Income and Health Insurance: Evidence from French French linked employer-employee data
Ali, Ben Halima Mohamed; Camille, Regaert - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 46-55
This article analyses the relationship between the duration of sick leave, income and health insurance. The analysis is based on a modified version of the model developed by Allen (1981), taking into account the specificity of the French model. We used the HYGIE database constructed from the...
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