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Impact of Preventive Health Care on Indian Industry and Economy
Chadha, Alka; Mehdi, Ali; Malik, Garima - 2007
care and labour productivity and corporate profitability. While doing so, they try to generate awareness on the positive … point on whose well-being and performance the productivity of a company rests. In a highly competitive corporate environment …, productivity and profitability that India's growth potential and global competitiveness depends substantially. Unfortunately, while …
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Drug quality and safety issues in India
Chokshi, Maulik; Mongia, Rahul; Wattal, Vasudha - 2015
Today, the global pharmaceutical product value chain is becoming increasingly complex and this has led to the emergence of 'multiple quality standards' for medicines. But this non-uniformity in the quality of medicine is also contingent upon both the regulatory milieu in the country of...
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Behavioral nudges prevent student dropouts in the pandemic
Lichand, Guilherme; Christen, Julien - 2021
School closures in the context of COVID-19 have been shown to magnify that problem, with at least seven million additional dropouts worldwide in 2020. Despite efforts from governments around the world to mitigate learning gaps by the time in-person classes return, interventions to motivate...
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Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector
Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas - 2016
Healthcare payers try to reduce costs by promoting the use of cheaper generic drugs. We show strong interrelations in drug prescriptions between the inpatient and outpatient sectors by using a large administrative dataset from Austria. Patients with prior hospital visits have a significantly...
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Closing the gap: The impact of the medicaid primary care rate increase on access and health
Alexander, Diane; Schnell, Molly - 2017
The difficulties that Medicaid beneficiaries face accessing medical care are often attributed to the program's low reimbursement rates relative to other payers. There is little evidence, however, as to the actual effects of Medicaid doctor payment rates on access and health outcomes for...
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Earnings dynamics and firm-level shocks
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas; … - 2019
productivity shocks transmit to individual wages, but the effect is mostly concentrated among the high-skilled workers; firm …
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Effect of measles outbreak on vaccination uptake
Schober, Thomas - 2018
This paper explores the effects of a measles outbreak on vaccination uptake in Austria, using administrative data with individual-level information on childhood vaccinations. I define a treatment group of children affected by the outbreak, and compare them with a control group of earlier-born...
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Effect of measles outbreak on vaccination uptake
Schober, Thomas - 2018
This paper explores the effects of a measles outbreak on vaccination uptake in Austria, using administrative data with individual-level information on childhood vaccinations. I define a treatment group of children affected by the outbreak, and compare them with a control group of earlier-born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140923
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The long-term effects of hospitalization on health care expenditures: An empirical analysis for the young-old population
Torrini, Irene; Lucifora, Claudio; Russo, Antonio - 2022
We investigate the short- and long-term effects of hospitalization on different types of health care expenditures (HCE). A dynamic DID model with variation in treatment timing is specied and estimated using register data of individuals aged 50-70 residing in Milan, Italy, and observed over the...
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Economic incentives and long-term sickness absence: The indirect effect of replacement rates on absence behavior
Nilsson, Martin - 2015
Reductions in SI replacement levels has been a widely used instrument to lower sickness absence rates. The idea is that increasing the direct cost of absence would lower the absence rate. This paper explores a reform to the compulsory Swedish SI that meant that the replacement rate varied over...
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