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An analysis of peer effects on vaccination behavior using a model of privately provided public goods

Ibuka, Yoko; Itaya, Jun-ichi; Miyazato, Naomi - 2018

Traditional economic models of vaccination behavior simply assume that agents free-ride on the vaccination decisions of … conjectural variation model, to explain how a positive peer effect regarding vaccination behavior arises. We conduct two empirical … studies using Japanese data in these models. The first empirical analysis, using a data set on the vaccination behavior of …

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The Provision of Local Public Services in a Risky Environment: An Application to Crime

Traub, Stefan - 2006

We state efficiency conditions for the provision of congestable local public goods that diminish individual-specific proprietary risks. The optimum level of such a public service is determined by equating the sum of the reductions of the expected property losses due to a better service level...

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New estimates of the value of a statistical life using air bag regulations as a quasi-experiment

Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2012

Due to Federal regulations, automobile air bag availability was a model-specific discontinuous function of model year for used vehicles in the 1990s and early 2000s. We use these discontinuities and the gradual increase in the supply of air bags to trace out the demand curve for air bags and the...

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Using "costs states" in a semi-Markov model to estimate cost-effectiveness with an illustration for metastatic HER2+ breast cancer in the Czech Republic

Slegerova, Lenka - 2020

This paper proposes an original method for assessing costs of medical treatment. It defines states in a semi-Markov model associated with specific costs of the treatment, and not with patients' health statuses. Costs assigning to these "costs states" is more straightforward; moreover, it allows...

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Health care service provision in Europe and regional diversity : a stochastic metafrontier approach

Schley, Katharina - In: Health economics review 8 (2018) 11, pp. 1-11

In the last decades, demographic change coupled with new and expensive medical innovations have put most health care systems in developed countries under financial pressure. Therefore, ensuring efficient service provision is essential for a sustainable health care system. This paper investigates...

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New estimates of the value of a statistical life using air bag regulations as a quasi-experiment

Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2012

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Waiting to give

Craig, Ashley; Garbarino, Ellen; Heger, Stephanie A.; … - 2014

We estimate the effect of an increase in time cost on the return behavior of blood donors. Using data from the Australia Red Cross Blood Service, we ask what happens when pro-social behavior becomes more costly. Exploiting a natural variation in which donor wait times are random, we use the...

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The value of health - empirical issues when estimating the monetary value of a QALY based on well-being data

Himmler, Sebastian; Stöckel, Jannis; Exel, N. J. A. van; … - 2020

In a 'smart' electricity distribution network, flexible distribution resources (FDRs) can be coordinated to improve efficiency. But coordination enables whoever controls such resources to exercise market power. The paper establishes the following efficiency rankings of market structures:...

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Measuring the benefit-cost ratio of public IPM technology transfer programs : an optimal control framework and an application to Nepalese agriculture

Wiebelt, Manfred - 2000

Despite favourable ecological and economic results, many developing countries have not yet adopted an integrated pesticide management (IPM). Given rising marginal costs and diminishing marginal benefits from IPM technology transfer, an optimal control framework is used to identify optimal rates...

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Relative price changes of ecosystem services : evidence from Germany

Heckenhahn, Jonas; Drupp, Moritz A. - 2022

Discounting future costs and benefits is a crucial yet contentious practice in the appraisal of long-term public projects with environmental consequences. The standard approach typically neglects that ecosystem services are not easily substitutable with manufactured goods and often exhibit...

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