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Rationale: In the health economic literature, many statements on the allocation of health care resources can be found showing an appreciation of the two criteria of efficiency and justice or fairness as two values which are to weighed against each other in case of conflict. Objective: This paper...
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A social time preference methodology derived from Feldstein (1965) is applied to calculate social discount rates across 167 countries and across time from 2005-2050 for a country case (Brazil). This attempt seeks to compute comparable figures from a homogeneous dataset and provides a...
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Per the National Academy of Sciences’ 2017 recommendations, the social cost of carbon (SCC) is now calculated with a modular framework in which researchers can easily substitute different models for estimating climate damages. The modular approach is an improvement from previous practice, but...
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Rationale: Data from discrete choice experiments are usually analysed using probit or logit models or random effects extensions of these. These approaches produce estimates of the mean taste weights attributed to the attributes in the experiment by the sampled individuals. Further, if a cost...
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In 2004, the German Social Health Insurance introduced a co-payment for the first doctor visit in a calendar quarter. I combine a structural model of health care demand and a difference-in-differences strategy to estimate the effect of that reform on the number of visits. In the model, the...
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We develop and estimate a generalized labour supply model that incorporates work effort into the standard consumption-leisure trade-off. We allow workers a choice between two contracts: a piece rate contract, wherein he is paid per unit of service provided, and a mixed contract, wherein he...
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In 2004, the German Social Health Insurance introduced a co-payment for the first doctor visit in a calendar quarter. I combine a structural model of health care demand and a difference-in-differences strategy to estimate the effect of that reform on the number of visits. In the model, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415739
The demand for certain types of health care services depends on decisions of both the individual and the health care provider. This paper studies the conditions under which it is possible to separately identify the parameters driving the two decision processes using only count data on the total...
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We develop and estimate a generalized labour supply model that incorporates work effort into the standard consumption-leisure trade-off. We allow workers a choice between two contracts: a piece rate contract, wherein he is paid per unit of service provided, and a mixed contract, wherein he...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190905