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The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical evidence in particular is inconclusive, and...
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The OPEC countries rely on oil to fund their budgets, similar to many countries worldwide. However, the fall in oil prices in 2008 and 2014 put significant strain on their public finances, including healthcare finances. This study examines the effect of the fall in oil prices on OPEC countries'...
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sports in general and in any of the publicly funded sports facilities in particular. Moreover, improved well-being and health …
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This paper studies the impact of the health decentralization of funds and responsibilities that took place in Mexico in … 1997 on state level health outcomes. It renders two main results. First, the magnitude of transfers from the federal …-reform health expenditures of the federal government in each state. Second, decentralization did not boost the advances in health …
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In this paper, we tested the hypothesis that policy makers' choices concerning health spent at the local level are … determinants of public health activity. We performed a spatial panel data analysis encompassing 399 municipalities in the period …. Firstly, we show that health spent is driven for (global and local) positive spatial autocorrelation, and it is persistent …
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The report discusses employment in the health care system in Poland based on analysis and projections of the demand and …
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Early intervention is considered the optimal response to developmental disorders in children. We evaluate a nationwide developmental screening programme for preschoolers in Austria and the resulting interventions. Identification of treatment effects is determined by a birthday cutoff-based...
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Early intervention is considered the optimal response to developmental disorders in children. We evaluate a nationwide developmental screening programme for preschoolers in Austria and the resulting interventions. Identification of treatment effects is determined by a birthday cutoff-based...
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Healthcare providers’ response to payment incentives may have consequences for both fiscal spending and patient health …
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study how digitization of prescriptions affects pharmaceutical use and health outcomes. We use comprehensive administrative … prescription use. Younger patients' health outcomes do not improve but adverse outcomes, such as prescription drug abuse disorders …
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