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Sustaining Universal Health Coverage in France: A Perpetual Challenge
Barroy, Helene; Or, Zeynep; Kumar, Ankit; Bernstein, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
While universal health coverage (UHC) offers a powerful goal for a nation, all countries-irrespective of income are struggling with achieving or sustaining UHC. France is a high-income country where HC is in effect universal. Health-related costs are covered by a mix of mandatory social health...
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Is Beer Safer than Spirits? How the Change in Consumption Shares of Alcoholic Beverage Types Affects Traffic Mortality in Young People
Freeman, Donald G. - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 61 (2012) 4
This paper uses cross-state and cross-regional time series to estimate the effect of the variation in shares of alcohol beverage types on traffic fatalities in young people, with particular emphasis on consumption of beer versus spirits, or “hard liquorâ€. Depending on the...
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Supports for Working Families: Work and Care Policies across Welfare States
Gornick, Janet C.; Meyers, Marcia K. - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 4, pp. 13-18
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Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Selected OECD Countries
Kamerman, Sheila B. - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 4, pp. 19-24
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Abwanderung und familiäre Pflege
Liepke, Thomas; Thum, Marcel - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 14 (2007) 06, pp. 30-32
tatsächlich spielen die eigenen Kinder bei der Betreuung der Eltern im Alter eine wichtige Rolle. Werden wir uns auch in Zukunft … bei Hilfe- oder Pflegebedürftigkeit eine Betreuung durch die eigenen Kinder. Dies ist keineswegs reines Wunschdenken, denn …. Infolge der Abwanderung sind die räumlichen Distanzen zwischen Eltern und Kindern größer geworden, was die innerfamiliäre …
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Die Familie - ein Ersatz für das Sozialsystem?
Andres, Gerd; Brauksiepe, Ralf; Meier, Volker; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 59 (2006) 18, pp. 03-18
Die Frage, ob und in welchem Umfang volljährige Kinder ihre Eltern oder Eltern ihre Kinder finanziell unterstützen … dort angemessen, wo es nicht darum geht, wirklich Bedürftigen zu helfen. Insofern weist die Vorstellung, reiche Kinder … armer Eltern nicht aus ihrer familiären Verantwortung zu entlassen, in die richtige Richtung." Auch Gerd Landsberg …
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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
, educational opportunities were at times 'actively managed' and allocated to children of less educated parents. What happened to …
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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
, educational opportunities were at times 'actively managed' and allocated to children of less educated parents. What happened to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838234
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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: A Macroeconomic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their …Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …
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Fertility response to parents' resource collection intensity: evidence from southeast Tigray, northern Ethiopia
Gebru, Bahre - In: African Journal of Economic and Sustainable Development 3 (2014) 2, pp. 141-155
The neo-Malthusian argument that greater population adversely affects the natural ecosystem is well researched in the Ethiopian context. However, its counterpart vicious circle approach did not receive much attention so far. This research is generally aimed to explore the impact on households'...
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