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Counting missing women: A reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"
Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022
Stock estimates' of missing women suggest that the problem is concentrated in South and East Asia and among young children. In contrast, `flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it is among children in India and China, and is larger in...
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Does population sorting through internal migration increase healthcare costs and needs in peripheral regions?
Kulshreshtha, Shobhit; Salm, Martin; Wübker, Ansgar - 2022
Large regional disparities in health and healthcare costs prevail in many countries, but our understanding of the underlying causes is still limited. This study shows for the case of the Netherlands that population sorting through internal migration can explain a substantial share, around 28%,...
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The impact of shock-responsive social cash transfers: Evidence from an aggregate shock in Kenya
Strupat, Christoph; Rukundo, Emmanuel Nshakira; … - 2024
This study examines the effects of a nationwide shock-responsive social cash transfer scheme during an aggregate shock, with a focus on highly risk susceptible informal sector households in Kenya. Leveraging primary in-person survey data in a doubly robust difference-in-differences framework, we...
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Life Expectancy and Mother-Baby Interventions. Evidence from A Historical Trial
Bhalotra, Sonia; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2014
This paper investigates the potential of maternal and infant health programs to improve the life expectancy of women and children. We study a program trialed 1931-33 in seven Swedish medical districts, assembling individual data from parish records and aggregate data from annual reports of...
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Who will be the mediator? Local politics and hospital closures in Germany
Sriubaite, Ieva - 2021
This paper analyses the effects of hospital closures in Germany in the context of emergency medical care for patients with acute myocardial infarction or hemorrhagic stroke. Using a comprehensive inpatient care data, I evaluate the extent of the impact of hospital closures between 2006 and 2012...
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Life Expectancy and Mother-Baby Interventions. Evidence from A Historical Trial
Bhalotra, Sonia; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
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Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Mortality – Evidence from Sweden
Fischer, Martin; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2013
Theoretically, there are several reasons to expect education to have a positive effect on health, and empirical … research suggests that education can be an important health determinant. However, it has not yet been established whether … education and health are indeed causally-related, and the effects found in previous studies may be partially attributable to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331334
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Decomposing differences in health and inequality using quasi-objective health indices
Heger, Dörte - 2016
, income and education gradients increase steeply with poor health. …
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Cream skimming by health care providers and inequality in health care access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Werbeck, Anna; Wübker, Ansgar; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2020
Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected profitability. In the German two-tier system, outpatient reimbursement rates for both public and private insurance are centrally determined but are more than twice as high for the...
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Does the Letter Matter (and for Everyone)? - Quasi-experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Invitation on Mammography Uptake
Carrieri, Vincenzo; Wuebker, Ansgar - 2014
the same time, we find that home invitation reduces education-related inequalities but increases gradient in the use …
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