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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 … dependence. Heterogeneity is handled through fixed effects in a panel homogeneous model and through a panel heterogeneous model …
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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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Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …
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government expenditures (including Social Security and income assistance). Together, the reduction in smoking and the rise in …
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Using the 2006-07 American Time Use Survey and its Eating and Health Module, I show that over half of adult Americans report grazing (secondary eating/drinking) on a typical day, with grazing time almost equaling primary eating/drinking time. An economic model predicts that higher wage rates...
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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%. …
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We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same … mother?s or father?s education raises children?s education by about 0.1 year. Our estimated income elasticities are around 0.1. …
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with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce … countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain …
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A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation … that is due to a truly exogenous factor: the monetary lottery prizes of individuals. The findings are that higher income …
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, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to …'s income. We also find some evidence for a positive interaction effect between post-birth environment and pre-birth factors. …
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