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Genetic insurance can deal with the negative effects of genetic testing on insurance coverage and income distribution when the insurer has access to information about test status. Hence, efficient testing is promoted. When information about prevention and test status is private, two types of...
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This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
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This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149211
In a model where consumers have quasi-hyperbolic preferences, we compare immediate subsidies paid for health …-conscious consumption and future subsidies rewarding good health outcome. We characterize the subsidy rates which implement the unbiased …
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This paper studies the interplay between climate, health, and the economy in a stylized world with four heterogeneous … regions, labeled ‘West’ (cold and rich), ‘China’ (cold and poor), ‘India’ (warm and poor), and ‘Africa’ (warm and very poor …). We introduce health impacts into a simple integrated assessment model where both the local cooling effect of aerosols as …
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approaches to the evaluation of life and health can only serve as a decision-making aid. Forthermore it turns out that rationing …
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Regarding the connection between economic development and public health, the statistically evident correlation between … be identified, whose origins are in part inherent to the special structural characteristics of the market for health but … focus on the demand for health, this paper takes a holistic approach toward modeling the health market, in order to account …
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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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There are fundamental public health challenges and trade–offs that need to be confronted for the achievement of the … highest attainable standard of health and the sustainability agendas to be compatible. The trade–offs arise because, at a … population level, the highest attainable standard of health is a standard that is achieved (or progressively realised) through …
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This Article examines state constitutions and health care rights. Notably, close to a third of states' constitutions … recognize health while the U.S. Constitution contains no reference. Ample scholarly commentary exists on the absence of a right … to health care under the U.S. Constitution but little attention has been paid to state constitutional law. This Article …
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