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neutral Norway must clearly go beyond the direct (soldiers wounded physically and mentally) and indirect effects (rationing of …
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Primary care physicians have two roles: the healer and the gatekeeper. We show that, due to information asymmetries, they cannot be expected to fulfill the latter role. Better gatekeepers will be poorer healers; hence all patients, both truly sick and shirkers, will strictly prefer physicians...
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There are few previous studies that have applied multivariate methods to analyse Spanish Influenza mortality, and for the very first time, Spanish Flu morbidity and case fatality rates are analysed. Previous studies have reported that indigenous populations were the prime victims of Spanish...
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fertility decline in Norway, from 1918 to 1919, and the subsequent baby-boom in 1920. The European country analyzed was not … registration of population data including vital statistics continued as normal in Norway because the First World War did not … also fear of contracting a coming or present epidemic – as well present epidemic disease experience – to explain why …
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This paper exploits a Norwegian physician directed reform aimed to reduce sick-leave. Physicians were required to consider part-time sick-leave as the default treatment and - in the case of long lasting full-time sick-leave - to file a report documenting why the worker was unable to perform any...
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This paper assesses the causal effect of sick-leaves on subsequent earnings using an administrative dataset for Norway …
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