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What Remains after the Oil Boom is Over?
Jelnov, Pavel - 2019
This paper links between Beckerian literature that shows that marriage is a normal good with respect to male income and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870157
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Health Care Expenditure and Income in the OECD Reconsidered : Evidence from Panel Data
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2010
This paper reconsiders the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income using a panel of … cointegration properties between health care spending and income. This is done in a panel data context controlling for both cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013145194
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Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?
Haouas, Ilham - 2014
Recent research conclude that the GCC economies have failed to address the oil curse. They are far behind other countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to correct the ill-effects of an oil curse. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057462
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Patients Whose GP Knows Complementary Medicine Tend to Have Lower Costs and Live Longer
Kooreman, Peter - 2011
Health economists have largely ignored complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as an area of research, although both clinical experiences and several empirical studies suggest cost-effectiveness of CAM. The objective of this paper is to explore the cost-effectiveness of CAM compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123914
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Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure
Liu, Hong - 2012
. We also find that this program has improved medical care utilization more for the elderly, for the low- and middle-income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099798
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Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2014
This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007. We estimate a production function where life expectancy depends on health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068471
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Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity
Fonseca, Raquel - 2013
in health spending (technology 30% and insurance 6%), while income explains only 4% and other health trends 0.5%. By … in both income and insurance is larger with co-occurring improvements in technology. Technological change, taking the … age 25 over this period, while changes in insurance and income together explain less than 10%. Welfare gains are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074900
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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Doepke, Matthias - 2012
vote for women's rights, which in turn promotes growth in human capital and income per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113089
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Do the Obese Really Die Younger or Do Health Expenditures Buy Them Extra Years?
Frijters, Paul - 2010
A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been argued that the obese die younger, the data that have become available do not immediately support this. This potentially undermines the hypothesis that modern life with its physical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152786
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On the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity
Fonseca, Raquel - 2009
health spending (insurance 29% and technology 24%) while income less than 10%. By simultaneously occurring over this period … 59% of the rise in life expectancy at age 50 over this period while insurance and income explain less than 10% …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153179