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To "vape" or smoke? : a discrete choice experiment among adult smokers
Marti, Joachim; Buckell, John; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; … - 2017
A growing share of the United States population uses e-cigarettes. In response, policymakers are considering regulating e-cigarettes, or have already done so, due to concerns regarding e-cigarettes' public health impact. However, there is currently little population-based evidence to inform...
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To 'Vape' or Smoke? Experimental Evidence on Adult Smokers
Marti, Joachim; Buckell, John; Maclean, Catherine; … - 2018
A growing share of the U.S. population uses e‐cigarettes but the optimal regulation of these controversial products remains an open question. We conduct a discrete choice experiment to investigate how adult tobacco cigarette smokers' demand for e‐cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes varies by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014109660
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The Measurement of Health and the Connection between Health Inequality and Income
Nesson, Erik - 2017
reporting bias affects the estimation of income-related health inequality as measured by the concentration index. We run a …, income-related reporting bias and also suggest that higher income individuals react more strongly to a change in objective …, clinical health measures. We find that self-reported health measures significantly overstate the degree of income …
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Age and choice in health insurance : evidence from Switzerland
Becker, Karolin (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2007 - Revised version
Elements of regulation inherent in most social health insurance systems are a uniform package of benefits and uniform cost sharing. Both elements risk to burden the population with a welfare loss if preferences differ. This suggests introducing more contracted choice; however, it is widely...
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Cost sharing in health insurance : an instrument for risk selection?
Becker, Karolin (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2005
Health insurance is potentially subject to risk selection, i.e. adverse selection on the part of consumers and cream skimming on the part of insurers. Adverse selection models predict that competitive health insurers can eschew high-risk individuals by offering contracts with low deductibles or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003216009
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Thinking in Chinese vs. thinking in English : social preference and risk attitudes of multicultural minds
Li, King King - 2010
This paper investigates whether language priming activates different cultural identities and norms associated with the language communicated; bilingual subjects are given Chinese instructions in the Chinese treatment and English instructions in the English treatment. The main findings are: (1) in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688574
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Exercise improves academic performance
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Charness, Gary; Ekström, Mathias; … - 2017
We report the results of a randomized controlled trial testing whether incentivizing physical exercise improves the academic performance of college students. As expected, the intervention increases physical activity. The main result is that it generates a strong and significant improvement in...
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Poverty, Inequality and Health: A case study of Armenia
Tonoyan, Tamara - 2005
The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … health to the disadvantage of the poor, and to changes in impoverishment and income inequality associated with payments for … equity with respect to financing and access is undermined. It is emphasized that reducing poverty and income inequality …
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The causal link between financial incentives and weight loss : an evidence-based survey of the literature
Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Reichert, Arndt R.; Reinermann, Holger - 2011
Obesity and overweight are linked to diseases that cost society a significant amount of resources. While behavior modification can reduce the problem, instigating such lifestyle changes is an uneasy task. One potential way to reduce the problem is through the use of financial incentives. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580235
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Physician payment mechanisms, hospital length of stay and risk of readmission : evidence from a natural experiment
Echevin, Damien; Fortin, Bernard - 2013
We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk of readmission. To do so, we exploit a major reform implemented in Quebec (Canada) in 1999. The Quebec Government introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for...
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