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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 from reference-dependent preferences: The absolute subjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally greater when the deviation represents a loss than when the...
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
This paper exploits a unique opportunity to evaluate the impact of the quality change in the labor and delivery services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing...
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
Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are spent on health. The sensitivity of health care...
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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Guilt from promise-breaking and trust in markets for expert services: Theory and experiment
Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Qiu, Jianying; … - 2010
's provision and charging decisions. We argue that the expert's promise induces a commitment that triggers guilt if the promise is … increase the commitment value of proper promises. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269892
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SES health gradients during the epidemiological transition: The case of China
Lei, Xiaoyan; Yin, Nina; Zhao, Yaohui - 2010
, and these may exhibit SES gradients and exacerbate social inequality. Using hypertension as an example and data from China … (CHNS), we find that the prevalence of hypertension in China is already close to levels in developed countries, under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269784
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Early life health interventions and academic achievement
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Løken, Katrine Vellesen; Neilson, … - 2012
This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW), which assigns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289980
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Not Your Lucky Day: Romantically and Numerically Special Wedding Date Divorce Risks
Kabátek, Jan; Ribar, David C. - 2016
Characteristics of couples on or about their wedding day and characteristics of weddings have been shown to predict marital outcomes. Little is known, however, about how the dates of the weddings predict marriage durability. Using Dutch marriage and divorce registries from 1999-2013, this study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559696
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Home Production of Childcare and Labour Supply Decisions in a Collective Household Model
Turon, Hélène - 2019
This paper proposes a dynamic structural model of labour market and childcare choices for couples within a collective model of decision making. We formalise explicitly the need for childcare as a function of the age structure of the children population in the household then examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005849
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Further Training and Affective Commitment
Grund, Christian; Titz, Krystina - 2018
We investigate the relation of further training and employees' affective commitment. In doing so, we distinguish … training is associated with the affective commitment of their employees and on the other hand how individual participation in … further training relates to affective commitment. Using the Linked Personnel Panel (LPP), which is a longitudinally linked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873407