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Competition and Crowding-Out among Public, Non-Profit and For-Profit Organizations: Evidence from Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment
Freeborn, Beth A.; Cohen, Andrew M.; McManus, Brian - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2007
U.S. markets for outpatient substance abuse treatment (OSAT) include clinics that are private for-profit, private non-profit, and public (i.e., government-run). We study the market structure of OSAT using recently-developed methods from the empirical industrial organization literature on...
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Limited Liability, Moral Hazard and Risk Taking - A Safety Net Game Experiment
Neugebauer, Tibor; Füllbrunn, Sascha - Luxembourg School of Finance, Faculté de droit, … - 2010
Safety nets may reduce incentives to mitigate risks, and adversely affect people’s behavior. We model the safety net problem as a social dilemma game involving moral hazard, risk taking and limited liability. Individuals take costly measures to avoid a likely loss which, if incurred, is...
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User satisfaction among the three public health insurance schemes in Thailand: A casof Phayao province
Somrith, Warunya; Thaiprasert, Nalitra - In: The Empirical Econometrics and Quantitative Economics … 2 (2013) 3, pp. 1-12
This study tries to investigate and compare user satisfaction among the three public health insurance schemes in Thailand: the Civil Servant Medical Benefit Scheme (CSMBS), the Social Health Insurance Scheme (SHIS), and the Universal Coverage scheme (UCS), using a case study of Prayao Province...
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Medicaid expansions for the working age disabled: Revisiting the crowd-out of private health insurance
Wagner, Kathryn L. - In: Journal of Health Economics 40 (2015) C, pp. 69-82
Disabled individuals under 65 years old account for 15% of Medicaid recipients but half of all Medicaid spending. Despite their large cost, few studies have investigated the effects of Medicaid expansions for disabled individuals on insurance coverage and crowd-out of private insurance. Using an...
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Health Insurance, Fertility, and the Wantedness of Pregnancies: Evidence from Massachusetts
Apostolova-Mihaylova, Maria; Yelowitz, Aaron - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Health insurance reform in Massachusetts lowered the financial cost of both pregnancy (by increased coverage of pregnancy-related medical events) and pregnancy prevention (by increasing access to reliable contraception and family planning). We examine fertility responses for women of...
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Las Sociedades Portuarias Regionales en el comercio exterior colombiano: Una reseña sobre la importancia del Puerto de Buenaventura. 1990 - 2004
Collazos, Jaime Andrés; Borrero, Santiago - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - ECONOMÍA REGIONAL - 2006
Este documento analizó la evolución de la movilización de carga de los principales terminales Marítimos2 del país entre los años 1990-2004, con el objetivo de conocer el puerto que moviliza mayor cantidad de carga en el comercio exterior colombiano. Los resultados revelaron que la mayor...
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HDR 2011 - Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
progress for most of the world’s poor majority is to be sustained, for the benefit of future generations as well as for those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843563
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Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse
Schubert, Samuel R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
“Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse” finds that an energy resource curse plagues many EU supplier states. This in turn directly affects Europe’s energy supply security and threatens to engulf Europe in unwanted hostilities at home and abroad. The study addresses seven...
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HDR 2003 - Millennium Development Goals: A Compact Among Nations to End Human Poverty
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The new century opened with an unprecedented declaration of solidarity and determination to rid the world of poverty … and environmental sustainability. World leaders promised to work together to meet concrete targets for advancing … of failed development. It demonstrates that the range of human development in the world is vast and uneven, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467207
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HDR 2004 - Cultural Liberty in Today’s Diverse World
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
Accommodating people’s growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so...
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