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Suicide is a Property Right; Assisted Suicide is a Contract Right
McGee, Robert W. - 2005
-assisted suicide leave much to be desired. Although this topic has been beaten to death in the literature, the vast majority of … in these cases. Basically, suicide is a property rights issue and physician-assisted suicide is a contract rights issue …
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Political institutions and health expenditure
Blum, Johannes; Dorn, Florian; Heuer, Axel - 2021
We examine how political institutions influence health expenditure by using a panel of 151 developing and developed countries for the years 2000 to 2015 and four measures of democracy. Our pooled OLS analysis shows that democracies have 20-30% higher government health expenditure relative to GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405291
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Impact of policy measures and behavior on the COVID pandemic in Germany
Bethäuser, Jenny - 2024
Critics protest loudly against restrictions imposed by politicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: Mandatory masks, lockdowns, school and business closures. This paper examines (1) the extent to which these policies have indirectly contributed to limiting the number of COVID-19 cases...
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What Works to Control COVID-19? Econometric Analysis of a Cross-Country Panel
Chen, Liming; Raitzer, David; Hasan, Rana; Lavado, Rouselle - 2021
We use cross-country panel data to examine the effects of a variety of nonpharmaceutical interventions used by governments to suppress the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). We find that while lockdown measures lead to reductions in disease transmission rates as captured by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241477
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Food Prices and Population Health in Developing Countries : An Investigation of the Effects of the Food Crisis Using a Panel Analysis
Lee, Suejin - 2015
High food prices can be an immediate threat to household food security, undermining population health, retarding human development, and lowering labor productivity for the economy in the long term. We employ a panel dataset covering 63 developing countries from 2001 to 2010 to make a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035086
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807266
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What works to control COVID-19? : econometric analysis of a cross-country panel
Chen, Liming; Raitzer, David; Hasan, Rana; Lavado, Rouselle - 2020
We use cross-country panel data to examine the effects of a variety of nonpharmaceutical interventions used by governments to suppress the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). We find that while lockdown measures lead to reductions in disease transmission rates as captured by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012403980
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Structural econometric estimation of the basic reproduction number for Covid-19 across U.S. states and selected countries
Johnsson, Ida; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Yang, Cynthia Fan - 2023
This paper proposes a structural econometric approach to estimating the basic reproduction number (R0) of Covid-19. This approach identifies R0 in a panel regression model by filtering out the effects of mitigating factors on disease diffusion and is easy to implement. We apply the method to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014364977
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Do labor market institutions influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis
Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2014
We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375378
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Do unemployment benefits and employment protection influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis
Rottmann, Horst - 2014
We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … suicide mortality. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while relatively strict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401550