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Re-Examining Supplier-Induced Demand in Health Care : Comparisons Among Patients Affiliated and Not Affiliated with Healthcare Professionals in China
Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Chen, Xi - 2021
Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures between patients affiliated with healthcare...
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Gary Becker's Contributions in Health Economics
Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2014
This short essay reviews Gary Becker's contributions and influence in health economics. It was originally prepared for the collection of short papers in honor of Gary Becker that is scheduled to appear in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Demographic Economics
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044425
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Hospital Resources : Persistent Reallocation Under Price Changes
Wozny, Florian - 2020
the hospital level. To identify a causal effect, I develop a unique identification strategy where I exploit hospitals …' exposure to snowfall. A particularity of the reform led to exogenous treatment price shocks at hospital level in response to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833866
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Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation : Cause or Effect?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2012
the effects of migration on the accumulation of both knowledge and human capital, by invoking endogenous growth theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098128
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Migration, Capital Formation, and House Prices
Grossmann, Volker - 2013
We investigate the effects of interregional labor market integration in a two-sector, overlapping-generations model with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing supply, capital formation is endogenous, assuming that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086219
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Unions and Firms' Investments : A Unified View
Berton, Fabio - 2019
In this paper, we present a simple model in which a unionized and non-unionized firm optimally make investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864858
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A Decline in Labor's Share with Capital Accumulation and Complementary Factor Inputs : An Application of the Morishima Elasticity of Substitution
Paul, Saumik - 2019
The role of capital accumulation as a driver of the labor income share requires capital and labor to be substitutes, which appears paradoxical in a world predominantly characterized by complementarity between capital and labor. This paper argues that the composition of skills in the labor force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870261
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Untimely Destruction : Pestilence, War and Accumulation in the Long Run
Bell, Clive - 2019
This paper analyses the effects of disease and war on the accumulation of human and physical capital. We employ an overlapping-generations frame-work in which young adults, confronted with such hazards and motivated by old-age provision and altruism, make decisions about investments in schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861271
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Corporate Efficiency, Credit Status and Investment
Quader, Manzur - 2014
firm's investment is comparatively more sensitive to cash flow, but this sensitivity is negatively and significantly … related with corporate efficiency. These results point to the fact that high investment sensitivity to cash flow may not be … solely driven by measurement error in investment opportunity, but may still be interpreted as a consequence of imperfect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051438
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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2015
This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023770