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Measuring Natural Risks in the Philippines : Socioeconomic Resilience and Wellbeing Losses
Walsh, Brian James - 2019
Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its main measure of disaster severity. Using a new,...
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Quality and Accountability in Healthcare Delivery : Audit Evidence from Primary Care Providers in India
Das, Jishnu - 2017
set of audit studies, where standardized patients were presented to a nearly representative sample of rural public and … providers are mostly unqualified, but they spent more time with patients and completed more items on a checklist of essential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971525
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Patient Satisfaction, Doctor Effort, and Interview Location : Evidence from Paraguay
Das, Jishnu - 2016
,271 interactions between 292 doctors and their patients in 98 clinics and hospitals in Paraguay and conducted an exit-survey with the … same patients as they left the clinic. For a subsample of 64 facilities they also interviewed patients who visited the … patients interviewed at home compared with those interviewed at the clinic. This leads the authors to conclude that even if …
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Are Tobacco Taxes Really Regressive? Evidence from Chile
Fuchs, Alan - 2017
Tobacco taxes are deemed regressive, because the poorest families tend to allocate larger shares of their budget to purchase tobacco. However, as taxes also discourage tobacco use, some of the most adverse effects, including higher medical expenses, lower life expectancy at birth, added years of...
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Paying for Health Care : Quantifying Fairness, Catastrophe, and Impoverishment, with Applications to Vietnam, 1993-98
Wagstaff, Adam*Doorslaer, Eddy van - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973171
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The Political Economy of Healthcare Litigation : Model and Empirical Application to Uruguay
Corduneanu-Huci, Cristina - 2017
The political economy of health care is complex, as stakeholders have conflicting preferences over efficiency and equity. This paper formally models the preferences of consumer and producer groups involved in priority setting and judicialization in public health care. It uses a unique dataset of...
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Subjective Well-Being and Peaceful Uprisings
Witte, Caroline T. - 2019
This study analyzes whether subjective well-being measures can explain variation in peaceful uprisings, in addition to the objective measures typically used in analyses of this type of events. Using data on uprisings and subjective well-being for 118 countries from 2007 to 2014 -- a period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894753
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Economic Shocks and Subjective Well-Being : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Hariri, Jacob Gerner - 2017
This article examines how economic shocks affect individual well-being in developing countries. Using the case of a sudden and unanticipated currency devaluation in Botswana as a quasi-experiment, the article examines how this monetary shock affects individuals' evaluations of well-being. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972052
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Sustainable and Smart Cities
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2017
This paper explores the challenges and opportunities that government officials face in designing coherent' rules of the game' for achieving urban sustainability during times of growth. Sustainability is judged by three criteria. The first involves elements of day-to-day quality of life, such as...
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History of Events and Life-Satisfaction in Transition Countries
Dabalen, Andrew - 2017
Using Life in Transition Survey data for 27 transition countries, the findings of this paper suggest that higher life satisfaction is correlated with lesser experience of unpleasant events such as labor market shock or economic distress, mostly in the recent past. Social capital such as trust,...
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