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This paper models the effect of a HIV/AIDS epidemic on saving behavior and studies the welfare effects of testing for HIV. The model specifies a utility function that includes both regular consumption, and medical expenditures. Medical expenditures generate more utility if individuals are HIV...
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Decisions on investing in health as well as other policies require deciding how to best allocate available resources - recognizing that using labor, materials, and other resources for one purpose means that they cannot be used for other purposes. Approaches for economic evaluation, including...
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Climate change not only impacts production and market consumption, but also the relative scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities. We study fundamental drivers of the resulting relative price changes, their potential magnitude, and their implications for climate policy in...
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We study how the scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities, affects the economic appraisal of climate policy. To this end, we perform a comprehensive analysis of the change in relative prices of non-market goods in the widespread climate-economy model DICE. We show that DICE...
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-effectiveness analyses. We could not update all inputs to cost-effectiveness models.ConclusionsIgnoring competing mortality in risk …
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This paper develops the first globally comprehensive and empirically grounded estimates of mortality risk due to future … temperature increases caused by climate change. Using 40 countries' subnational data, we estimate age-specific mortality … adaptation. We uncover a U-shaped relationship where extreme cold and hot temperatures increase mortality rates, especially for …
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Using 40 countries’ subnational data, we estimate age-specific mortality-temperature relationships and extrapolate them … cold and hot temperatures increase mortality rates, especially for the elderly. Critically, this relationship is flattened … adaptation costs, we estimate that the mean global increase in mortality risk due to climate change, accounting for adaptation …
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This paper develops the first globally comprehensive and empirically grounded estimates of mortality risk due to future … temperature increases caused by climate change. Using 40 countries' subnational data, we estimate age-specific mortality … adaptation. We uncover a U-shaped relationship where extreme cold and hot temperatures increase mortality rates, especially for …
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