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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269601
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Reference-dependent preferences and loss aversion: a discrete choice experiment in the health-care sector
Neumann, Einat; Neuman, Shoshana - 2007
A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived … with non-tangible attributes. A health-care event is used for empirical illustration: The loss aversion theory is tested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268808
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Evaluation of the impact of the mother and infant health project in Ukraine
Nizalova, Olena Y.; Vyshnya, Maria - 2009
services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269530
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New evidence on the role of remittances on health care expenditures by Mexican households
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - 2009
international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are … almost three times greater than its responsiveness to changes in other sources of household income. Furthermore, health care … expenditures are less responsive to remittance income among lower-income households. Since the lower responsiveness may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269518
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A labor market approach to the crisis of health care professionals in Africa
Andalón, Mabel; Fields, Gary - 2011
This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization challenge, a distributional challenge, a performance challenge, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274635
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Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Composition and the Measurement of Labor Productivity in the U.S. Trucking Industry
Boyer, Kenneth D.; Burks, Stephen V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
inputs does not deny the real improvements in the quality of trucking services (reliability, predictability, speed, order …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822793
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The problem of the uninsured
Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - 2012
The problem of the uninsured - those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies - cannot be fully understood without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called self-insurance and self-protection, including the publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290005
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Who Believes in Me? The Effect of Student-Teacher Demographic Match on Teacher Expectations
Gershenson, Seth; Holt, Stephen B.; Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2015
about how teachers form expectations and whether their expectations are systematically biased. We investigate whether … student-teacher demographic mismatch affects high school teachers' expectations for students' educational attainment. Using a … student fixed effects strategy that exploits expectations data from two teachers per student, we find that non-black teachers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307416
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The Power of (Non) Positive Thinking: Self-Employed Pessimists Earn More than Optimists
Dawson, Christopher; de Meza, David Emmanuel; Henley, Andrew - 2015
. Amongst employees, optimists earn more. These results are consistent with biased expectations leading to entry errors. As a … test of validity, we find that amongst the married, future divorcees have higher financial expectations but their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307451
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Personal Experiences and Expectations about Aggregate Outcomes
Kuchler, Theresa; Zafar, Basit - 2015
We use novel survey data to estimate how personal experiences affect household expectations about aggregate economic … systematically extrapolate from recent locally experienced home prices when asked for their expectations about US house price changes … distribution over expected future national house price movements. We find similar results for labor market expectations, where we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401707