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Assessing benefit-incidence results using decompositions. The case of health policy in Argentina.
Gasparini, Leonardo - In: Economics Bulletin 4 (2006) 40, pp. 1-10
This paper discusses the use of aggregate and microeconometric decompositions to compare benefit-incidence results over time. Decompositions are applied to explore changes in targeting in health policies directed to pregnant women and children under 4 in Argentina. The results suggest that...
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Do institutions, inequality and cultural differences affect cadaveric versus live-kidney harvesting?
Anbarci, Nejat; Caglayan, Mustafa - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 10-19
This paper empirically investigates the role of institutions, income inequality, cultural differences and health expenditures on cadaveric versus total kidney transplants scrutinizing information gathered from 63 countries over the period 1998-2002. We show that improvements in income equality...
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Assessing benefit-incidence results using decompositions. The case of health policy in Argentina.
Gasparini, Leonardo - In: Economics Bulletin 4 (2006) 40, pp. 1-10
This paper discusses the use of aggregate and microeconometric decompositions to compare benefit-incidence results over time. Decompositions are applied to explore changes in targeting in health policies directed to pregnant women and children under 4 in Argentina. The results suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010629171
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Labour market, obesity and public policy considerations
Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; Athanasiou, George; … - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 783-793
This paper attempts to investigate the relation among wages, unemployment, obesity and to identify public policies to … framework tries to capture the relationship between obesity and employment/unemployment by assuming that the fraction of obese … workers is a function of the ratio of vacant jobs to unemployment (labour market tightness). We argue that if obesity is …
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On the relationship between the negotiated prices of pharmaceuticals and the patients' co-payment
Jelovac, Izabela - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 481-493
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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Stochastic Dominance, Poverty and the Treatment Effect Curve
Verme, Paolo - 2010
The paper proposes a simple framework for the evaluation of anti-poverty programs based on single means differences, FGT poverty measures and stochastic dominance theory. A Treatment Effect Curve (TEC) is derived and its use illustrated with simulated data
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A note on evaluating freedom of opinion
Eckert, Daniel; Klamler, Christian - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1805-1813
Following the recent generalization of social choice in the literature on judgment aggregation, we extend the analysis of freedom of choice from sets of alternatives to sets of opinions. We establish the analogue of the cardinality based freedom of choice measure and suggest an alternative...
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A straightforward proof of Arrow's theorem
Fey, Mark - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1792-1797
We present a straightforward proof of Arrow's Theorem. Our approach avoids some of the complexities of existing proofs and is meant to be transparent and easily followed.
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Does prompting for revision influence subjects' offers in willingness to accept – willingness to pay lab experiments?
Kingsley, David C.; Brown, Thomas C. - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2580-2585
The willingness to accept – willingness to pay disparity raises questions about accepted economic theory. Plott and Zeiler (2005) have suggested that the disparity is the result of subject misconception about experimental procedures and, in an experiment designed to control for subject...
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Lower and upper tail concern and the rank dependent social evaluation functions
Puerta, Carmen; Urrutia, Ana - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 3250-3259
Some properties that strengthen the Pigou-Dalton transfer principle have been introduced in the literature, such as the diminishing transfer principle, and its positional version, the principle of positional transfer sensitivity. These principles state that social evaluation function should be...
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