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This paper presents preliminary summary results from a longitudinal study of participants in seven U.S. states during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to standard socio-economic characteristics, we collect data on various economic preference parameters: time, risk, and social preferences, and...
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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to rationing guidelines for scarce medical resources. This paper describes the benefits of using a reserve system over a priority system in operationalizing compromises between certain ethical goals. In the last two years, more than a dozen...
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, particular in case demand exceeds supply. The question of allocation is critical, as the use of websites in the initial vaccine … allocation demonstrated inequitable outcomes. On both equity and public health grounds, it is important that more disadvantaged … approach implemented by the majority of US states for vaccine allocation).We found significant differences in support across …
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der Allokation von Ressourcen, der Messung medizinischer Ergebnisse und der Bestimmungsgründe internationaler Variation …This paper surveys the global health economy, with special emphasis on the allocation of resources, the measurement of …
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