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An analysis of mammography decisions with a focus on educational differences.
Biro, Aniko - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2012
the discounting of the potential future benefits of screening. I also analyze the education di¤erences in mammography … results suggest that the observed education gradient is mainly due to di¤erences in health behaviors and health care … factor. I also Â…nd some evidence that women are forward looking when deciding on mammography attendance,and might even …
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Climate change, intergenerational equity and the social discount rate
Caney, Simon - In: Politics, Philosophy & Economics 13 (2014) 4, pp. 320-342
time discounting, growth discounting and opportunity cost discounting; and it assesses their implications for climate …
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Taux d'actualisation pour l'évaluation des investissements publics au Québec
Montmarquette, Claude; Scott, Iain - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2007
Because of the time value of money (that is, a dollar today can be invested to yield more than a dollar tomorrow), a project's costs and benefits in different periods are not comparable. Therefore, a discount rate that will convert future sums into present values is used in cost-benefit...
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Discount rates and risky sexual behaviors among teenagers and young adults
Chesson, Harrell; Leichliter, Jami; Zimet, Gregory; … - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 32 (2006) 3, pp. 217-230
between discounting and other, non-sexual health behaviors. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2006 …
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The impact of health care reform on hospital and preventive care: Evidence from Massachusetts
Kolstad, Jonathan T.; Kowalski, Amanda E. - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 11, pp. 909-929
In April 2006, Massachusetts passed legislation aimed at achieving near-universal health insurance coverage. The key … features of this legislation were a model for national health reform, passed in March 2010. The reform gives us a novel …
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Microeconometric Analyses of Education Production in Germany
Piopiunik, Marc - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This volume was prepared by Marc Piopiunik while he has been working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at...
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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal
Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
the trends in educational and health infrastructure availability in the region; trends in educational attainments and … health standards of the people; trends in people’s access to social infrastructure and their affordability – especially among …
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Risikoselektion und Risikoausgleich am Beispiel der gesetzlichen Krankenkassen in Deutschland
Dieterich, Felix - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …
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Messartefakte bei der Erfassung der Gesundheit von Migranten in Deutschland: zur interkulturellen Äquivalenz des SF-12-Fragebogen im Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP)
Schulz, Maike - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
Nur wenige Studien geben Aufschluss über den Gesundheitszustand der in Deutschland lebenden Migrantenbevölkerung und beschränken sich meist auf rein medizinische Kriterien. Die vorliegende Arbeit vergleicht auf Grundlage von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) den Gesundheitszustand...
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The cost-utility of magnetic resonance imaging for breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers aged 30–49
Norman, Richard; Evans, D.; Easton, Douglas; Young, Kenneth - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 8 (2007) 2, pp. 137-144
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