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La spesa sanitaria Ssn in Italia e nel Lazio. Ricostruzione con la metodologia Ecofin-Ocse, 1990 - oggi
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Ecofin and Oecd methodology is used to reconstruct the historical evolution of public current health care expenditure for Italy and Lazio (an Italian Region). The reconstructed evolutions allow to detect what have been the per-capita expenditures per age brackets in absolute values (Euro) in...
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Un Test sulle Ipotesi delle Proiezioni a Medio-Lungo Termine della Spesa Farmaceutica
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We use the same methodology, that Ecofin-Oecd apply for projecting expenditure in the medium-long term, to reconstruct expenditure in the medium-long past. It is possible to compare the effective expenditure with the reconstructed one. The effective expenditure is of course influenced by policy...
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Licensing and regulation of the cannabis market in England and Wales: Towards a cost-benefit analysis
Pudney, Stephen; Bryan, Mark; DelBono, Emilia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study sets out the potential costs and benefits of a move to a licensed, taxed and regulated cannabis market in … properties of the cannabis product. Research in neuroscience has demonstrated the harmful effects of one cannabis constituent … illegal cannabis market, the possibility of product regulation is a potential advantage of a licensed and regulated system of …
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Decomposing violence: terrorist murder and attacks in New York State from 1933 to 2005
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of murder in the state of New York. (1933-2005). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal...
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Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina’s Downturns
Cruces, Guillermo; Gluzmann, Pablo; Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001–02) on health and education outcomes. The identification strategy relies on both the inter-temporal and the cross-provincial co-variation between changes in regional GDP and outcomes by...
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Le differenze regionali nella governance della spesa sanitaria. La sanità alla sfide del federalismo: il modello SaniRegio di CeRM
Pammolli, Fabio; Salerno, Nicola - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
SaniRegio is an econometric model, based on fixed effects panel techniques, that investigates the level of efficiency of Italian Regions in governing their health care systems. As a result of the model, we obtain a measure of the efficient or standardized expenditure that may be compared to the...
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Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums
Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate treatments. First, I engineer an exogenous change in...
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Analyzing the efficiency differences among basic health units in Sargodha District
Abbas, Touqeer; Awan, Masood Sarwar; Aslam, Muhammad Amir; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Pakistan has adequate infrastructure for health services delivery at primary level. The study aims to calculate the technical efficiency of Basic Health Units (BHUs) in Sargodha by using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with the choice of inputs and outputs being specific to BHUs operation....
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Does corruption affect suicide? Empirical evidence from OECD countries
Yamamura, Eiji; Andrés, Antonio R.; Katsaiti, Marina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The question to what extent corruption influences suicide remains still unanswered. This paper examines the effect of corruption on suicide using a panel data approach for 24 OECD countries over the period 1995-2004. Our results show that suicide rates are lower in countries with lower levels of...
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Enhancing the food security of the peri-urban and urban poor through improvements to the quality, safety and economics of street-vended foods
Johnson, Paa-Nii T.; Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
There has been a continuing growth in urbanisation in developing countries, and governments’ face a major challenge in ensuring that city dwellers are able to procure sufficient food. Street foods are sold in almost every country in the world. In most towns and cities in Ghana, selling of...
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