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The relative value of suicide prevention in health care priority setting
Andrén, Daniela; Laitila, Thomas; Ryen, Linda; … - 2023
lives by suicide prevention lower than saving lives from pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, or acute heart attack. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014441929
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Climate change impacts on birth outcomes in Brazil
Pereda, Paula Carvalho; Menezes, Tatiane; Alves, … - 2014
This paper attempts to identify the climatic effect on birth outcomes in Brazil and, thus, to predict the potential impact of climate change. Panel data models indicate that excess and lack of rainfall have the most important harmful effects on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285571
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Nonlinearities and the determinants of iInequality: new panel evidence
Gravina, Antonio Francesco; Lanzafame, Matteo - 2020
-curve empirical framework to investigate how financial development, globalisation and technology affect income inequality. Our … exert opposite effects in different countries. Globalisation is associated to increasing inequality in most advanced … economies are mixed, technology and financial development lead to increasing inequality for most emerging economies. Hence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317667
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The fight against geography : malaria and economic development in Italian regions
Percoco, Marco - 2011
Geography has long been considered as a fundamental prerequisite for economic development and growth. In recent years, a growing number of papers have considered the role of physical geography as a determinant of regional growth and development by considering it as a source of "intrinsic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008808084
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Mapping diversity in social history
Sori, Ercole - 2003
The paper is an overview of diversity in history, starting as far back as the societies in classical Ancient Europe and traditional non-European societies, where differentiation was basically between the enslaved and free population and the out-of-caste in India. With the end of slavery the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591848
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Post-communist city on its way from grey to colourful : the case study from Slovakia
Bitusikova, Alexandra - 2003
The paper is a case study of the city of Banska Bystrica in Slovakia in the light of political, socio-economic and cultural changes. It discusses urban diversity and integrity from an anthropological qualitative perspective. On the example of three different historical periods (1918 1948: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011589680
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I'm not fat, just too short for my weight : family child care and obesity in Germany
Mahler, Philippe - 2007
Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in body weight but cannot explain the dramatic increase in the last two decades. The increase must be due to structural and behavioral changes. One such behavioral change is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892445
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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 nonmedical inputs, often finding small marginal effects of the former. This paper argues that both types of input have an additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900770
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Spurious correlation in estimation of the health production function : a note
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2009
In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first presents the bounds testing procedure as a method to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900852
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Convex treatment response and treatment selection
Boes, Stefan - 2010
This paper analyzes the identifying power of weak convexity assumptions in treatment effect models with endogenous selection. The counterfactual distributions are constrained either in terms of the response function, or conditional on the realized treatment, and sharp bounds on the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695370