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of imputing lower values for persons with a compromised health status. We also find that income is positively and …
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benefit list of social health insurance. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted in Germany to measure preferences … contributions to health insurance. As one would expect, non-affected non-diabetics and insulin-naive diabetics exhibit higher …-benefit point of view. -- Health insurance ; discrete-choice experiment ; preferences ; diabetes …
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This paper sheds light on some unexpected consequences of health insurance regulation that may pose a big challenge to … insurers’ risk management. Because mandated uniform contributions to health insurance trigger risk selection efforts risk … indicator of high risk (Beck et al. [2006]). Applying the new formula to an individual Swiss health insurer, its payments into …
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We use matched employer-employee data from Sweden to study the role of the firm in affecting the stochastic properties of wages. Our model accounts for endogenous participation and mobility decisions. We find that firm-specific permanent productivity shocks transmit to individual wages, but the...
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This paper examines factors that may influence the estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life obtained from contingent valuation surveys that elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reductions. We examine the importance of distributional assumptions, the choice of the welfare...
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the same community health intervention was implemented in 98 municipalities using one of three financing models. The Salud … externally measured maternal and child health targets. Fifty-four municipalities funded inputs using conventional aid and thirty … had national funds. Using a difference-in-difference approach and national health systems data we find that preventive …
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This paper examines the relationship between public financial management (PFM), the financing of health interventions …, and health outcomes. Specifically, the paper econometrically tests whether the effect of PFM on under-five (U5) mortality … depends on the relevance of public sector health financing. Employing OLS on a sample of 215 observations indicates that a one …
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We examine the efficiency gains in health systems generated after the national roll out of basic healthcare in El … demonstrate that the expansion of community health teams, comprising less-specialized health workers, increases preventive care …-specialized health workers improves efficiency, maintaining quality of care. …
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expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …
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This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively … differences in the avail-ability of health professionals across municipalities and cohorts. In municipalities with one fewer … of primary and specialist health care services at ages 25-35, without impacts on emergency room admissions. The reform …
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