financing systems. This paper investigates the impact of these schemes on out-of-pocket spending based on three rounds of … increases outpatient spending with no detectable impact on inpatient services. Furthermore, we find notable heterogeneity in …

Although the Industrial Revolution is often characterized as the culmination of a process of commercialisation, the … precise nature of such a link remains unclear. This paper models and analyzes such link: the role of commercialisation in … onset of the Industrial Revolution. We finally calibrate the model to quantify the impact of a higher degree of anonymity on …

Although the Industrial Revolution is often characterized as the culmination of a process of commercialisation, the … precise nature of such a link remains unclear. This paper models and analyzes such link: the role of commercialisation in … onset of the Industrial Revolution. We finally calibrate the model to quantify the impact of a higher degree of anonymity on …

investigations. This paper draws from a new district-level database to investigate the local impact on socioeconomic outcomes of … better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and …. The inequalizing impact of mining activity, both across and within districts, may explain part of the current social …

poverty. Many households above the poverty line are food insecure; many below are not. We investigate a lack of financial …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …