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Fiscal incidence when both individual welfare and family structure matter: The case of subsidization of home-care for the elderly
Mou, Haizhen; Winer, Stanley L. - 2012
How should we construct incidence indexes for children and parents in the case of public subsidies for home-care of the elderly? What is the nature of a fiscal incidence index on a budgetary basis versus a theoretically more satisfactory index that is welfare-based? Can we find budgetary based...
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The impact of the macroeconomy on health insurance coverage: Evidence from the great recession
Cawley, John; Moriya, Asako S.; Simon, Kosali - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of the macroeconomy on the health insurance coverage of Americans using panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for 2004-2010, a period that includes the Great Recession of 2007-09. We find that a one percentage point increase in...
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Public Health - Bedarf in der Sache und für ein neues akademisches Fach in Deutschland
Rosenbrock, Rolf - In: Spektrum der Wissenschaft: internationale Ausgabe in … (1993) 6, pp. 111-114
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Mobilization against AIDS: Beobachtungen von einer Reise im Herbst 1985
Paul, Gerd - In: Eine Stadt lebt mit AIDS: Hilfe und Selbsthilfe in San …, (pp. 10-27). 1986
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[Rezension] Lee Clarke: Acceptable risk? Making decisions in a toxic environment. Berkeley [u.a.]: California University Press, 1989
Dierkes, Meinolf - In: Organization studies: An international … 12 (1991) 2, pp. 325-326
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Anti-Tabakpolitik in den USA: Modell oder Sonderfall der Prävention?
Kühn, Hagen - In: Präventionspolitik: gesellschaftliche Strategien der …, (pp. 325-345). 1994
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Healthismus: eine Analyse der Präventionspolitik und Gesundheitsförderung in den U.S.A.
Kühn, Hagen - 1993
besorgte Blicke über den Atlantik in die USA: Die einen verweisen auf die statistisch eindrucksvollen Erfolge, vor allem im …. Andere sehen aus den USA Gefahren eines autoritär normierten Gesundheitsverhaltens auf Europa zukommen, das zu Uniformität … Erkenntnissen der Sozialepidemiologie. Dieser Arbeit liegen zahlreiche Recherchen in den USA und ein Aufenthalt als Visiting …
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Does head start improve children's life chances? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Ludwig, Jens; Miller, Douglas L. - 2006
This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program's effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical assistance to the 300 poorest counties to develop Head Start proposals. The result was a large and...
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The rise in obesity across the Atlantic: an economic perspective
Brunello, Giorgio; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; … - 2008
We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency considerations, which are organized around three...
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