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We investigate the effect of variations in the price of opium in Afghanistan on per capita dispensation of prescription opioids in the US. Quarterly county-level data for 2003-2016 indicate that reductions in opium prices significantly increase the quantity of opioids prescribed. The increase...
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highest rates of many health conditions for which marijuana may be an effective treatment. We use the Health and Retirement …
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, the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we adopted a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and … undertook segmented regression analysis. Pension demonstrated heterogeneous effects on health service utilization by income. We … show that pension encouraged low-income individuals to use both outpatient (OR = 1.219, 95% 1.018-1.460) and inpatient …
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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...
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This paper estimates a structured life cycle model of family retirement decision using a unique historical dataset back … simulated from Living in Ireland survey. Our model takes the advantages of the dataset and models retirement decisions in terms … incorporate complimentary leisure, which allows us to analyse the interactions of spouses' retirement timing. This methodology …
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Retirement behaviours and elderly poverty issues have been the subject of much attention and discussion in recent years … European countries, but is also struggling with increasing fiscal pressures. This paper analyses the retirement pattern and the … associated with the replacement rates and retirement behaviours, and explores the heterogeneities of replacement rates among …
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The paper studies retirement behavior of wage‐earners in Belgium – for the first time using rich survey data to explore … retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data to estimate a model à la Stock and Wise (1990 … explicitly takes into account the different take‐up rates of the various early retirement exit paths across time and ages. The …
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Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the … so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife … approach to estimate the effect of each partner's retirement on household consumption. We use for the analysis data drawn from …
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Phased retirement has been discussed as a means for increasing labour supply for people of older active age. The idea … is that instead of leaving a full-time job early for full-time retirement, an employee should reduce the working time …
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transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult … exploit eligibility ages for early retirement for identification in a regression discontinuity design. The results show that … parent's early retirement significantly increases the probability of childbirth for adult children. However, parental …
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