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Millions of people in the developing world lack access to curative drugs. Thomas Pogge identifies the cause for this problem in a lack of redistribution across borders. By contrast, this article shows that institutional shortcomings within developing countries are the main issue. The different...
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account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Instead … health and education services, providing social safety nets and redistributing incomes more efficiently. …
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How do patient and provider incentives affect the provision of long-term care? Our analysis of 551 thousand nursing home stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their stays instead of transitioning to community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second,...
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Premium subsidies have been advocated as an alternative to social health insurance. These subsidies are paid if … expenditure on health insurance exceeds a given share of income. In this paper, we examine whether this approach is superior to … social insurance from a welfare perspective. We show that the results crucially depend on the correlation of health and …
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Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health … care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the number of quality adjusted life years that a … synonymous with reducing inequalities in health, we also consider the much richer variety of concepts employed by philosophers …
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generation and public health and these two factors serve as core points of analysis, that underscore a growing disconnect between … these elements, calling into question the viability of such a public health governance structure. A lesser explored approach … that have been identified in the literature, sin tax seen as a modern day indulgence may ,in fact ,promote a public health …
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This paper considers quality control in a program that distributes subsidized food. The standard theory of price controls and participatory approaches to food security both suggest that the quality of subsidized food and distribution services may be lower in vulnerable communities. We examine...
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The Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem on uniform consumption taxation breaks down if prices are endogenous. This paper investigates the implications for optimal food subsidies in China. To do so, we build a general equilibrium model where low-skilled workers have a comparative advantage in the...
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The Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem on uniform consumption taxation breaks down if prices are endogenous. This paper investigates the implications for optimal food subsidies in China. To do so, we build a general equilibrium model where low-skilled workers have a comparative advantage in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591243
This chapter studies second-best models of nutritional externalities, credit, and incomplete markets for risk, developing implications for welfare-improving government policy using primitive economic building blocks. Using a simple model of altruism wherein the rich obtain utility from the...
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