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This paper discusses measurement of socioeconomic inequalities in prevalence of a health condition. As its point of departure, it uses the recent exchange between Guido Erreygers and Adam Wagstaff in this journal, where they discuss merits of their own corrections of the frequently used...
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exploration of the pathways through which socioeconomic background relates to income-related health inequality. This novel … heterogeneity and smoking persistence, showing that the largest contributions to the pro-rich smoking inequality come from years of … standard approach. Once applying the suggested extension, socioeconomic background contributes indirectly to the inequality …
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-related health inequality. …
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This paper estimates the impact of university education on medical care use and its income related inequality. We do … mental health related hospital admissions for males. Analysis of the inequality impact of tertiary eligibility finds no clear … lower ability student will lead to an increase in contraceptive use without increasing its socioeconomic related inequality …
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different indicators for mental ill-health, as well as different measures of inequality, affect the conclusions we draw … decomposition results show that distributional changes in the population explain the increase in suicide inequality and partly … explain the increase in psychiatric inpatient diagnosis inequality. However, overall, only small changes in the level of …
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socioeconomic rank, ii) differences between measures of relative and absolute inequality, and iii) sex-differences in the trends …
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Greenhouse gases emissions are inexorably rising worldwide and the frequency and disruptive power of extreme weather phenomena are dramatically increasing. Although command-and-control and regulation policies have been extensively used to mitigate climate change, more effective and potentially...
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Among the wide variety of policy options adopted worldwide to control carbon emissions, one of the most environmentally effective and economically efficient is represented by carbon tax, that aims to recoup the damage arising from polluting production processes. In this paper, we focus on the...
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We analyze the quantitative labor market and aggregate effects of a carbon tax in a framework with pollution externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of adjustment influenced by carbon taxes: firm creation and green...
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In this work we update the regionalization and the calibration of the Regional dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (RICE) in its 1999 version developed by Nordhaus and Boyer (2000), with a focus on the Mediterranean countries. Our aim is to assess the impact of climate change...
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