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AIDing Contraception: HIV and Recent Trends in Abortion Rates
Hussey, Andrew; Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, Alex; Walker, Jay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Since the onset of HIV/AIDS awareness in the early 1980s, much attention has centered around the substantial negative effects of the disease throughout the world. This paper provides evidence of a secondary effect the disease has had on sexual behavior in the United States. Using a...
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Challenges in implementation of the maternity leave in Kosovo
Ramosaj, Argjiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study aims to analyze the implementation of Labor Law in Kosovo, with a particular attention towards Article 49th which regulates the issue of maternity leave. Labor Law in Kosovo has been in force only for a year, and as such it has been a matter of discussion because of the challenges...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107701
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Health Insurance Generosity and Conditional Coverage: Evidence from Medicaid Managed Care in Kentucky
Marton, James; Yelowitz, Aaron - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper estimates the impact of the introduction of Medicaid managed care (MMC) on the formal Medicaid participation of children. We employ a quasi-experimental approach exploiting the location-specific timing of MMC implementation in Kentucky. Using data from the March Current Population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112453
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Health Insurance, Fertility, and the Wantedness of Pregnancies: Evidence from Massachusetts
Apostolova-Mihaylova, Maria; Yelowitz, Aaron - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Health insurance reform in Massachusetts lowered the financial cost of both pregnancy (by increased coverage of … pregnancy-related medical events) and pregnancy prevention (by increasing access to reliable contraception and family planning …. Pregnancy wantedness increased in the aggregate through a combination of increasing wanted births and decreasing unwanted births. …
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The Consequences of the Demographic Transition for Women’s Status in Society
Namasaka, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The demographic transition is perhaps the most important event to occur in human affairs during the last 250 years, since the time of the enlightenment. It started in the countries of north-western Europe, and it has gone on to affect the rest of the world (Dyson 2009). Signified by the...
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An action plan to assess the current situation of maternal & newborn care at government health facilities in Jharkhand, India
Kumar, Sudesh; Singh, Janet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Maternal and child health care especially safe motherhood services are an important factor in the primary health care and are the responsibility of the government and ministry of health. Consolidating and strengthening health network and quality of primary health care is one of the priority...
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Endogenous fertility, endogenous lifetime and economic growth: the role of child policies
Fanti, Luciano; Gori, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We examine the effects of child policies on both transitional dynamics and long-term demo-economic outcomes in an overlapping-generations neoclassical growth model à la Chakraborty (2004) extended with endogenous fertility under the assumption of weak altruism towards children. The government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110839
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Child Health and the Income Gradient: Evidence from Australia
Khanam, Rasheda; Nghiem, Hong Son; Connelly, Luke B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The positive relationship between household income and child health is well documented in the child health literature but the precise mechanisms via which income generates better health and whether the income gradient is increasing in child age are not well understood. This paper presents new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837071
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Un Test sulle Ipotesi delle Proiezioni a medio-lungo termine della Spesa Sanitaria
Salerno, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The same methodology Oecd and Ecofin apply to project future trends of health care expenditue is here applied to reconstruct backwards Italian health care expenditure. The time horizon is 1988-2012. Results are described and argued. Important evidence emerges on the historical value of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108039
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La Spesa sanitaria Ssn in Italia e nella Regione Emilia Romagna - Ricostruzione e benchmarking con la metodologia Ecofin-Ocse
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The Ecofin-Oecd methodology is applied to reconstruct the health care expenditure evolution in Italy and in the Region Emilia Romagna. The reconstructed series can be compared to the historical series, highlighting the different capabilities of the Italian average and of the Region Emilia...
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