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Actuarial modelling of Australian population retirement risks : an Australian functional disability and health state model
Park, Kyu; Sherris, Michael - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014462204
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COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution
Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Mahecha, John Gomez; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390028
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Flat-of-the-curve medicine : a new perspective on the production of health
Schoder, Johannes; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and … additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004 … comparatively effective in reducing variability. -- production of health ; control over health status ; Gini coefficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900770
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The relationship between health and growth : when Lucas meets Nelson-Phelps
Aghion, Philippe; Howitt, Peter; Murtin, Fabrice - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008654313
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Climate change impacts on birth outcomes in Brazil
Pereda, Paula Carvalho; Menezes, Tatiane; Alves, … - 2014
on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low relative humidity also have effects. The use of climate change … effects of extreme weather. Mothers' education, sanitation access and health care assistance to pregnant women represent the … main instruments for addressing neonatal health problems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285571
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Alcohol drinking and population health : evidence from China's older adults
Yu, Dandan; Lu, Bei; Piggott, John - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585964
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Willingness to pay for mortality risk reductions : does latency matter?
Alberini, Anna; Cropper, Maureen L.; Krupnick, Alan J.; … - 2004
Using results from two contingent valuation surveys conducted in Canada and the U.S., we explore the effect of a latency period on willingness to pay (WTP) for reduced mortality risk using both structural and reduced form approaches. We find that delaying the time at which the risk reduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601145
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Willingness to pay to reduce mortality risks : evidence from a three-country contingent valuation study
Alberini, Anna; Hunt, Alistair; Markandya, Anil - 2004
of imputing lower values for persons with a compromised health status. We also find that income is positively and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606716
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Short and long-term impacts of famines : the case of the siege of Paris 1870-1871
Cogneau, Denis; Kesztenbaum, Lionel - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011686154