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Qualitative Study on Physicians' Motivations and Drug Prescribing Behaviour
Ion, Luminita Mihaela - In: CES Working Papers 5 (2013) 1, pp. 29-40
. The assurance of a proper and adequate prescription for the patients is influenced by a series of factors which act upon … the prescription decision of the medicines, as: the medicine features (quality-price, availability), the patient’s … action of prescribing to the patients leads to the discovery of the major role that the intention has on the behaviour. The …
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Decisions of persons, the pharmaceutical industry, and donors in disease contraction and recovery assuming virus mutation
Hausken, Kjell; Ncube, Mthuli - In: Health Economics Review 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-14
Background: The article develops an eight-period game between N persons and a pharmaceutical company. The choices of a donor and Nature are parametric. Methods: Persons choose between safe and risky behavior, and whether or not to buy drugs. The pharmaceutical company chooses whether or not to...
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Explaining informal payments in the Romanian public health care system
Drugă, Răzvan-Ionuț - In: CES Working Papers 14 (2022) 3, pp. 223-235
highest rate of use of these payments. With the support of parallel marketing research, carried out both among patients in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496760
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SARS-COV-2 influence on the general practice in North Macedonia: Viewpoints of the general population and practitioners
Denkovski, Viktor; Gavrilov, Goce - 2021
individual health risk of the population especially for chronic patients is imminent. The dramatic increase of Covid-19 cases and … practitioner. Additionally, the general practitioners revealed increased concerns about their own and the patients' safety in their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015063423
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Early and late human capital investments, borrowing constraints, and the family
Caucutt, Elizabeth M.; Lochner, Lance - 2012
This paper investigates the importance of family borrowing constraints in determining human capital investments in children at early and late ages. We begin by providing new evidence from the Children of the NLSY (CNLSY) which suggests that borrowing constraints bind for at least some families...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291946
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The impact of family income on child achievement: Evidence from the earned income tax Credit
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - 2010
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
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The widow's offering: Inheritance, family structure, and the charitable gifts of women
McGranahan, Leslie - 2007
This paper aims to explain disparities in the charitable bequest behavior of men and women. I use data on charitable bequests in wills from 17th Century Suffolk, England to investigate whether women or men were more generous to the poor when they died. Because of the difference in the legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292148
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Counter-compensatory inter-vivos transfers and parental altruism: Compatibility or orthogonality?
Stark, Oded; Zhang, Junsen - 2000
The intersection of the standard altruism hypothesis with the quite strong evidence that bequests tend to be equal suggests that inter-vivos transfers should be strongly compensatory. Yet the available evidence is not in congruence with this implication. It has therefore been inferred that the...
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A multi-country study of inter-generational educational mobility
Chevalier, Arnaud; Denny, Kevin; McMahon, Dorren - 2003
This paper analyses intergenerational educational mobility using survey data for twenty countries. We find that a number of interesting patterns emerge. Estimating a measure of mobility as movement and an index of mobility as equality of opportunity we find that while these two measures are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293872
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Schulleistungen von Maedchen und Jungen. Gleichberechtigung als Bildungsmotor?
Birkenfeld, Florian - 2008
Diese Arbeit untersucht Unterschiede in den Schulleistungen zwischen Jungen und Maedchen sowie moegliche Ursachen, die sich aus Charakteristika der Eltern und institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen ergeben. Hierzu werden die Daten der Schulleistungsstudie PISA 2000 mit einer Drei-Ebenenanalyse...
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