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Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

To analyze if the spread of HIV is related to economic inequality we estimate multilevel models of the individual probability of HIV infection among young Malawian women. We find a positive association between HIV infection and inequality at both the neighborhood and district levels, but no...

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HIV/AIDS, Adult Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from Malawi

Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Malawi. The future course of fertility … geographical variation in the distribution of HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Fertility is estimated for individual women, and measured as the … mortality and HIV prevalence rates at districts level are used to measure the impact of HIV/AIDS, exploiting the large …

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Uncovering the Effect of the HIV Epidemic on Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Malawi

Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

women in Malawi, allowing for a heterogeneous response depending on age and prior number of births. HIV/AIDS increases the … affect economically relevant behaviour. We evaluate the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the reproductive behaviour for …

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The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Child Health Outcomes and Abandonment. Evidence from Romania

Mitrut, Andreea; Wolff, Francois-Charles - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

We use household survey data and a unique census of institutionalized children to analyze the impact of abortion legalization in Romania. We exploit the lift of the abortion ban in December 1989, when communist dictator Ceausescu and his regime were removed from power, to understand its impact...

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Non-monotonic health behaviours - implications for individual health-related behaviour in a demand-for-health framework

Bolin, Kristian; Lindgren, Björn - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

A number of behaviours influence health in a non-monotonic way. Physical activity and alcohol consumption, for instance, may be beneficial to one’s health in moderate but detrimental in large quantities. We develop a demand-for-health framework that incorporates the feature of a...

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Individual technologies for health - the implications of distinguishing between the ability to produce health investments and the capacity to benefit from those investments

Bolin, Kristian; Liljas, Bengt; Lindgren, Björn - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

People differ in their ability to produce health investments and in their capacity to benefit from such efforts. In this paper, we assume (1) that the individual’s health-investment production function exhibits diminishing returns to scale and (2) that the individual’s capacity to benefit...

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Family income and children's education: Using the Norwegian oil boom as a natural experiment.

Løken, Katrine Vellesen - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2007

Parental income is positively correlated with children?s educational attainment. This paper addresses the causality of this observed link. We have a unique data set for Norwegians born in the period from 1968-1973, with a measure of permanent family income from the children are 0-20 years old....

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Does variation in GP practice matter for the length of sick leave? A multilevel analysis based on Norwegian GP—patient data

Aakvik, Arild; Holmås, Tor Helge; Islam, M. Kamrul - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2011

In many countries, the social insurance system is under pressure from an ageing population. An increasing number of people are on sickness benefits and disability pensions in Norway. The general practitioner (GP) is responsible for assessing work capacity and issuing certificates for sick leave...

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The Relationship Between Economic Conditions, Access to Health Care, and Health Outcomes

Aakvik, Arild; Holmås, Tor Helge - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2004

This paper analyses the impact of access to health care and economic conditions on health outcomes. Fixed-effects models are estimated using municipality data from 1996 to 2001. Health is proxied by total mortality rates divided into three different causes of death. Access to health care is...

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Access to Primary Health Care and Health Outcomes: The Relationships between GP Characteristics and Mortality Rates

Aakvik, Arild; Holmås, Tor Helge - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2005

This paper analyses the impact of economic conditions and access to primary health care on health outcomes in Norway. Total mortality rates, grouped into four causes of death, were used as proxies for health, and the number of general practitioners (GPs) at the municipality level was used as the...

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