The work constructs projections till 2030 for health care expenditures of Italian Regional Health Care Systems. Three … finance them, with a full breakdown per Regions. A useful work for stimulating the debate on health system reforms in Italy …

investment in human capital. In particular, the human capital investment of households with 1-3 children tends to be more … pronounced than that of households with more than 3 children. Moreover, households with 1-3 children act as an important …

outbreak of the disease. The underlying theoretical model, in which it is assumed that parents raise and educate children for … future generations is weakened, as children are left orphaned and surviving adults are correspondingly burdened. As a … consequence, per capita income decreases and communities can less afford to raise and educate children as they did before the …

health affecting consumer’s utility and we define also a Health Production Function where health is the output and the … consumer’s good are the inputs. In this approach we define lifestyle as the return to scale of the Health Production Function A … first result is that an increase of consumer’s personal income may have a positive or a negative effect on health. According …

One of the greatest challenges China faces is how to reshape its heavily investment-driven mode of economic growth. By …