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Removing Financial Barriers to Organ and Bone Marrow Donation : The Effect of Leave and Tax Legislation in the U.S
Lacetera, Nicola - 2013
In an attempt to alleviate the shortfall in organs and bone marrow available for transplants, many U.S. states passed legislation providing leave to organ and bone marrow donors and/or tax benefits for live and deceased organ and bone marrow donations and to employers of donors. We exploit...
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The Effects of a Sick Pay Reform on Absence and on Health-Related Outcomes
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2009
We evaluate the effects of a reduction in sick pay from 100 to 80% of the wage. Unlike previous literature, apart from absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and subjective health indicators. We also add to the literature by estimating both switch-on and switch-off...
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Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control Covid-19? Local Shelter-in-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth
Dave, Dhaval - 2020
One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the first to explore the comparative effectiveness of early county-level SIPOs versus later statewide...
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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
Yi, Junjian - 2014
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...
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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
Bloom, David E. - 2013
of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We present results for the five main NCDs (cardiovascular disease …, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, and mental health). Our undiscounted estimates indicate that the cost of the … most costly domains are cardiovascular disease and mental health, followed by respiratory disease. Our analyses also reveal …
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The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases : Estimates and Projections for China, Japan and South Korea
Bloom, David E. - 2017
of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic …-effectiveness analysis by identifying some intervention strategies to reduce disease prevalence in China that are cost beneficial and …
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The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
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Job Insecurity, Debt Burdens and Individual Health
Cuesta, Maite Blázquez - 2019
Job insecurity exerts negative effects on self-reported health. Using the Spanish Survey of Household Finances for 2011-2014, this paper asks whether and to what extent debt burdens enhance these detrimental health effects. To address potential endogeneity problems surrounding this question, the...
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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions : A Choice Experiment
Elias, Julio - 2016
Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...
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A Field Study of Donor Behaviour in the Iranian Kidney Market
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Sgroi, Daniel - 2022
Iran has the world's only government-regulated kidney market. We report the results of the first field study of donor behaviour in this unusual market. Participants have lower risk tolerance and higher patience levels than the Iranian average but display no difference in rationality from...
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