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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 … children born after abortion became legal. Additionally, our findings suggest that the lift of the ban had decreased the number …

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

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

geographical variation in the distribution of HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Fertility is estimated for individual women, and measured as the … major finding is that HIV/AIDS reduces fertility. Uninfected women both give birth to and desire to have fewer children in …The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Malawi. The future course of fertility …

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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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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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Effects of informal eldercare on female labor supply in different European welfare states

Kotsadam, Andreas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

countries, and in between these extremes in the Central European countries included in the study. That is, not only do women in …

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Biased Risk Perceptions of Longevity and Disability in Old Age

Font, Joan Costa - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2007

Rational learning theories postulate that information channels and cognitive biases such as individual optimism may influence an individuals assessment of the risk of undesired events, especially with regard to those that have a cumulative nature. This is the case with disability in old age,...

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EARLY LIFE HEALTH INTERVENTIONS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Bharadwaj, Prashant; Løken, Katrine V.; Neilson, … - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2012

This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW), which assigns...

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Negative Externalities in Day Care: Optimal Tax Policy Response

Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2002

Systematic pediatric evidence shows that the morbidity rates for children in day care are increasing in the group size.Sick children are usually cared for at home by parents. This creates a negative externality of parents' labor force participation. The social optimum implies lower group size...

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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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Re-visiting the Health Care Luxury Good Hypothesis: Aggregation, Precision, and Publication Biases?

Costa-Font, Joan; Gemmill, Marin; Rubert, Gloria - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2008

While a growing literature examining the relationship between income and health expenditures suggests that health care is a luxury good, this conclusion is contentiously debated due to heterogeneity of the existing results. This paper tests the luxury good hypothesis using meta-regression...

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