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Les sociétés égalitaires sont-elles en meilleure santé ? Plusieurs études récentes ont mis en évidence à partir de données agrégées une corrélation entre inégalités de revenu et espérance de vie. Cet article explore à partir de données de mortalité individuelles françaises les...
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We examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the period 1990-2003. Drawing on police administrative records, we first document that the size of the immigrant population is positively correlated with the incidence of property crimes and with...
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Dans cet article, nous évaluons le positionnement des médecins généralistes en comparant leurs revenus à ceux de salariés situés dans le haut de la hiérarchie salariale : les cadres supérieurs. Les syndicats de médecins évoquent régulièrement la durée des études de médecine, les...
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The lack of success of past strategies in reducing poverty has raised doubts as to whether these strategies were really an appropriate response to the needs of impoverished populations. Bearing in mind the aims of the new generation of development programmes to "empower" the poor, representative...
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The numbers of households in fuel poverty is increasing. Indeed, more and more people are struggling to heat their homes and therefore more and more people are exposed to low temperatures which can affect their health. In this paper, we use the French database of the Healthcare and Insurance...
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This paper assesses the impact of a free means-tested complementary health insurance on doctor visits. In order to tackle the endogeneity issue of the complementary health insurance variable, we use information on the selection rule to qualify for the free plan and adopt a regression...
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Private insurance for long-term care is underdeveloped in European countries and in the US. This paper tries to understand why the market is underdevelopped by using a theoretical approach and putting the emphasis on insurance demand. It shows that demand for long term care insurance can be low...
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Malgré l’affectation de moyens supplémentaires après chaque séquence de mobilisation de personnels ou de crise de santé publique comme la canicule de 2003, les services d’urgence semblent enlisés dans une crise durable. Les images de salles d’attente bondées, de patients allongés...
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Dans cet article nous spécifions et estimons des équations de salaire, de participation au marché du travail et d’offre de travail dans lesquelles figurent des variables sanitaires. Nous utilisons des données issues d’une d’enquête ménage, conduite en 1997 dans la capitale malgache,...
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Most of regulators in health care systems use pooling contracts such that payment do not depend on the level of severity. This policy is motivated by concerns about the moral hazard problem. In this paper, we show that it can be optimal when patient severity is private information because of the...
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