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In a model where individuals differ in both their health care needs and their lifestyle preferences, we examine the … fair provision of health care when those who regret their initial decisions are granted a fresh start. By considering that … the scheme of taxes and health treatments that maximises social preferences. These preferences allow the planner to make …
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provide an explanation for behavioral differences, and ultimately health outcomes, between wealth groups. … of health behavior, and exploiting both lottery winnings and inheritances to test the theory. We distinguish between the … direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of unhealthy consumption. The health cost increases …
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indeed provide an explanation for behavioral differences, and ultimately health outcomes, between wealth groups … of health behavior, and exploiting both lottery winnings and inheritances to test the theory. It distinguishes between … the direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of unhealthy consumption. The health cost …
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provided, allowing for measurement error that is correlated with income and wealth. Identification is derived from observing … increases in wealth inequality have passed through to consumption. Repeating this exercise in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics …A method to impute consumption expenditure inequality between wealth groups in the Survey of Consumer Finances is …
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. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle." Using … individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we confirm that this relationship exists for Germany as well. More … importantly, we shed light on the alcohol-income puzzle by analyzing, for the first time, the association between beverage …
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. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle". Using … individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we confirm that this relationship exists for Germany as well. More … importantly, we shed light on the alcohol-income puzzle by analyzing, for the first time, the association between beverage …
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We use a survey method designed to capture whether the consumption sharing ability of households varies systematically at different levels of well being. Evidence from Cyprus reconfirms our previous results from other countries, that household consumption economies of scale increase as the...
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Using a collective model of consumption, we characterize optimal commodity taxes aimed at targeting specific individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation can circumvent the agency problem of the household. Essentially, taxation should discourage less...
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Using a collective model of consumption, we characterize optimal commodity taxes aimed at targeting specific individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation can circumvent the agency problem of the household. Essentially, taxation should discourage less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730373