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We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency considerations, which are organized around three...
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The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity, diabetes, and other diseases could reduce life expectancy - with a concomitant decrease in the public-sector's annuity burden - but these savings may be offset by worsening...
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Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional variations in the intensity of exposure to supply-determined...
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This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Sweden since 1990 - a period … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … elderly. Overall, poverty among the elderly in Sweden remains low in an international perspective and our analysis leads us to …
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are significantly different to private counterparts. Overall results, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was …
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This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of … of present-day Sweden: the dual earner system. …
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metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are …
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This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden …
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In addition to neighbourhoods of residence, family and places of work play important roles in producing and reproducing ethnic segregation. Therefore, recent research on ethnic segregation and contact is increasingly turning its attention from residential areas towards other important domains of...
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Social assistance receipt among immigrants in relation to receipt among natives in Sweden is investigated. A background … interpreted. Most out-payment for social assistance in Sweden refers to foreign born persons although the category makes up 14 …
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