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Produktivität, Präsentismus und Arbeitsfähigkeit : Konzepte und Instrumente
Amler, Nadja - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472576
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Efficiency effects of cross-border medical demand
Lukas, Daniel - 2009
There is a growing interest in cross-border medical care and its comparative advantages. In addition, medical care can be defined as a local assurance good. Little research is being carried out in this field. This paper discusses the individual considerations for medical treatment offered at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301355
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Predicting survival in cost-effectiveness analyses based on clinical trials
Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Zethraeus, Niklas - 2001
This paper deals with the question how to model health effects after the cessation of a randomised controlled trial (RCT). Using clinical trial data on severe congestive heart failure patients we illustrate how survival beyond the cessation of a RCT can be predicted based on parametric survival...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281459
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A semi-parametric approach to the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition with continuous group variable and self-selection
Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2019
the impact of obesity on wages (Cawley 2004), using body mass index (BMI) as the continuous group variable. The results … suggest that body weight does have a negative impact on wages for white women, but the impact decreases for higher BMI levels …. For white men, the impact is also negative and significant, but positive for low levels of BMI, which explains why they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012016731
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A semi-parametric approach to the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition with continuous group variable and self-selection
Rios-Avila, Fernando - In: Econometrics : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/28, pp. 1-29
used to revisit the impact of body weight on wages, using body mass index (BMI) as the continuum of groups, finding … evidence that body weight has a negative, but decreasing impact on wages for both white men and women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025729
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Predicting survival in cost-effectiveness analyses based on clinical trials
Gerdtham, Ulf-G. (contributor);  … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper deals with the question how to model health effects after the cessation of a randomised controlled trial (RCT). Using clinical trial data on severe congestive heart failure patients we illustrate how survival beyond the cessation of a RCT can be predicted based on parametric survival...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001600068
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Information, externalities and socioeconomics of Malaria in Honduras : a preliminary analysis
Avilés, Maria Victoria; Cuesta, José - 2009
This paper explores how different levels of knowledge correlate with desirable preventive and curative practices against malaria in Honduras. The paper additionally analyzes "information externalities" associated with non-specific malaria health services, communicational campaigns and organized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003814187
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Efficiency effects of cross-border medical demand
Lukas, Daniel - 2009
There is a growing interest in cross-border medical care and its comparative advantages. In addition, medical care can be defined as a local assurance good. Little research is being carried out in this field. This paper discusses the individual considerations for medical treatment offered at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941164
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Which patients do I treat? : an experimental study with economists and physicians
Ahlert, Marlies; Felder, Stefan; Vogt, Bodo - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-11
This experiment investigates decisions made by prospective economists and physicians in an allocation problem which can be framed either medically or neutrally. The potential recipients differ with respect to their minimum needs as well as to how much they benefit from a treatment. We classify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009531668
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Economic Policy and Environmental Policy
Manuel, Eduardo Gando - 2006
It is nowadays unquestionable that the defense of the environmental quality and to it safeguards of the natural resources are fundamental slopes of the social development. The exploration of the common natural resources (water, air, soil, natural landscapes and humanized) it has been provoking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733373