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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy?

Heller, Peter S. - 2007

This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need to address issues concerning health sector policy, particularly when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to any strategy of...

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Healthcare reform in Greece : progress and reform priorities

Kalavrezou, Niki; Jin, Hui - 2021

We review Greek public sector healthcare policies and health-related outcomes since 2010.We find that excess spending was successfully curtailed, elements of the institutional framework were modernized, and health outcomes have been relatively favorable. However, especially prior to Covid-19,...

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U.S. healthcare : a story of rising market power, barriers to entry, and supply constraints

Lin, Li; Mrkaic, Mico; Weber, Anke - 2021

Healthcare in the United States is the most expensive in the world, with real per capita spending growth averaging 4 percent since 1980. This paper examines the role of market power of U.S. healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies. It finds that markups (the ability to charge prices...

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The economic impact of healthcare quality

Helsø, Anne-Line Koch; Pierri, Nicola; Wang, Adelina Yanyue - 2019

We study the costs of hospitalizations on patients' earnings and labor supply, using the universe of hospital admissions in Denmark and full-population tax data. We evaluate the quality of treatment based on its ability to mitigate the labor market consequences of a given diagnosis and propose a...

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Corruption and the Provision of Health Care and Education Services

Tiongson, Erwin - 2000

Government intervention to correct market failures is often accompanied by government failures and corruption. This is no more evident than in social sectors that are characterized by significant market failures and government intervention. However, the impact of corruption on the public...

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Public Spendingon Health Care and Poor

Verhoeven, Marijn - 2001

This paper estimates the impact of public spending on the poor''s health status in over 70 countries. It provides evidence that the poor have significantly worse health status than the rich and that they are more favorably affected by public spending on health care. An important new result is...

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Mask mandates save lives

Hansen, Niels-Jakob Harbo; Mano, Rui - 2021

We quantify the effect of mask mandates in the United States. Our regression discontinuity design exploits county-level variation in COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions, and deaths across the border between states with and without mandates. We find a significant and substantial effect-mask...

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What drives innovation? : lessons from COVID-19 R&D

Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2021

To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R and D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … and innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with …, while economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e.'if the market size is …

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Health Aid and Infant Mortality

Newhouse, David Locke - 2007

This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from 118 countries between 1973 and 2004. Health aid has a statistically significant effect on infant mortality: doubling per capita health aid is associated with a 2 percent reduction in the infant...

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Universal Health Care 101 : Lessons for the Eastern Caribbean and Beyond

Tsounta, Evridiki - 2009

Despite the increasing interest in universal health care, little is known about the optimal way to finance, design, and implement it. This paper attempts to fill this gap by providing some general policy recommendations on this important issue. While most of the paper addresses the Eastern...

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