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Optimal travel restrictions in epidemics

Shi, Wei; Qiu, Yun; Yu, Pei; Chen, Xi - 2022

initial outbreaks. Uncoordinated travel restrictions ignore policy externalities and therefore are sub-optimal in comparison …

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Chapter Three. The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 95-199). 2011

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...

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Health Care, Technological Change, and Altruistic Consumption Externalities

Philipson, Tomas - 2014

Traditional economic analysis has proposed well known remedies to deal with consumption externalities and inefficient … of Ramp;D and consumption externalities is central to health care industries around the world generally, and for the … problems in isolation are inefficient -- Pigouvian corrections to consumption externalities are inefficient under technological …

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Health Care, Technological Change, and Altruistic Consumption Externalities

Philipson, Tomas - 2006

Traditional economic analysis has proposed well known remedies to deal with consumption externalities and inefficient … of R&D and consumption externalities is central to health care industries around the world generally, and for the … problems in isolation are inefficient -- Pigouvian corrections to consumption externalities are inefficient under technological …

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Medical innovation and social externality

Roh, Chul-Young; Kim, Sangheon - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 3 (2017) 3, pp. 1-8

Healthcare expenditure in the United States has grown and will continue to increase. The increasing healthcare expenditure is to reduce real income as well as to diminish total utility and increase financial stresses. This study argues that the most critical factor that increases healthcare...

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Reprioritizing Government Spending on Health: Pushing an Elephant Up the Stairs?

Tandon, Ajay; Fleisher, Lisa; Li, Rong; Yap, Wei Aun - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in...

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Quarantine and lazarettos in the 19th century Greece : an economic perspective

Ithakisios, Dionysios D.; Vozikis, Athanassios - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 64 (2014) 1, pp. 42-52

This article presents the situation of public health in the 19th century Greece, with an emphasis on the financing of lazarettos. Due to "ignorance" and lack of therapeutic means and hospitals, isolation was the predominant practice for dealing with illness, both on the level of local society...

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The cost of influence : how gifts to physicians shape prescriptions and drug costs

Newham, Melissa; Valente, Marica - 2023

This paper studies how gifts - monetary or in-kind payments - from drug firms to physicians in the US affect prescriptions and drug costs. We estimate heterogeneous treatment effects by combining physician-level data on antidiabetic prescriptions and payments with causal inference and machine...

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The effect of universal health care on the out-of-pocket health expenditures : evidence from a natural experiment

Asali, Muhammad; Pantsulaia, Valida - 2022

In the first two quarters of 2013 the Georgian government introduced and fully implemented a universal health care (UHC) plan covering all those not-yet publicly or privately insured. We estimate the effect of the introduction of the universal healthcare plan on the level of out-of-pocket (OOP)...

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The Extent of Externalities From Medicare Payment Policy

Chen, Alice - 2020

leads to revised treatment choices for different payer-procedure combinations. Ignoring the breadth of externalities from …

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