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Some Costs and Benefits of Price Stability in the United Kingdom
Bakhshi, Hasan; Haldane, Andrew; Hatch, Neal - 2021
In a previous attempt to articulate the costs of inflation (Leigh-Pemberton (1992)), the Bank of England outlined the following costs of a fully-anticipated inflation: - the cost of economising on real money balances -- so-called shoe-leather' effects; - the costs of operating a...
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Birth Rates and Border Crossings : Latin American Migration to the Us, Canada, Spain, and the UK
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2014
We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain, and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 Latin American and Caribbean nations over the period 1980 to 2005. Latin American migration to the US is responsive to labor supply shocks, as predicted by earlier changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069156
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Censorship, Family Planning, and the Historical Fertility Transition
Beach, Brian - 2019
The historical fertility transition is one of the most important events in economic history. This study provides new … the sharp decline in fertility that took place in Britain beginning in that year. We then show that similar declines are … highlight the importance of changing social norms in the historical fertility transition and provide novel evidence showing that …
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Child Support and Fathers' Remarriage and Fertility
Bloom, David E.; Conrad, Cecilia; Miller, Cynthia - 2021
subsequent fertility …
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The Impacts of Reduced Access to Abortion and Family Planning Services on Abortion, Births, and Contraceptive Purchases
Fischer, Stefanie - 2017
Between 2011 and 2014, Texas enacted three pieces of legislation that significantly reduced funding for family planning services and increased restrictions on abortion clinic operations. Together this legislation creates cross-county variation in access to abortion and family planning services,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950833
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Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life : The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011
In this paper we show that omitted variables and publication bias lead to severely biased estimates of the value of a statistical life. Although our empirical results are obtained in the context of a study of choices about road safety, we suspect that the same issues plague the estimation of...
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Analyzing the Effects of Insuring Health Risks : On the Trade-Off between Short Run Insurance Benefits vs. Long Run Incentive Costs
Cole, Harold L. - 2012
This paper constructs a dynamic model of health insurance to evaluate the short- and long run effects of policies that prevent firms from conditioning wages on health conditions of their workers, and that prevent health insurance companies from charging individuals with adverse health conditions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097204
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Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Cohen, Jessica - 2012
Both under- and over-treatment of communicable diseases are public bads. But efforts to decrease one run the risk of increasing the other. Using rich experimental data on household treatment-seeking behavior in Kenya, we study the implications of this tradeoff for subsidizing life-saving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108271
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Discounting Under Disagreement
Heal, Geoffrey M. - 2013
A group of agents disagree about the appropriate inter temporal preferences to use when exploiting a common productive resource. They thus delegate decision making to a social planner who allocates consumption efficiently across heterogeneous individuals and over time. We define `policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082765
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The Developmental Approach to Child and Adult Health
Conti, Gabriella - 2013
Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089128