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The casual nexus between child mortality rate, fertility rate, GDP, household final consumption expenditure, and food production index
Asumadu-Sarkodie, Samuel; Owusu, Phebe Asantewaa - In: Cogent economics & finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-15
In this study, the causal nexus between child mortality rate, fertility rate, GDP, household final consumption … running from fertility rate, food production index, GDP, and household final consumption expenditure to the mortality rate …. Evidence from the Variance Decomposition Analysis shows that, almost 6% of future fluctuations in mortality rate are due to …
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Obesity and Health-Care Costs in Switzerland: Dealing with Endogeneity in Non-Linear Regression Models
Meyer, Stefan - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 152 (2016) 3, pp. 243-286
endogeneity issues, comprising reporting errors, omitted variables, and simultaneity. Using the conditional expectation approach …, we first account for the reporting errors in weight and height. Second, we address endogeneity in the body mass index …
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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation
Daysal, N. Meltem - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405046
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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: Health Policy 114 (2014) 1, pp. 41–53
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature, our approach allows us to net out a large array of individual-level and state-level factors that may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368125
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The casual nexus between child mortality rate, fertility rate, GDP, household final consumption expenditure, and food production index
Asumadu-Sarkodie, Samuel; Owusu, Phebe Asantewaa - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-15
In this study, the causal nexus between child mortality rate, fertility rate, GDP, household final consumption … running from fertility rate, food production index, GDP, and household final consumption expenditure to the mortality rate …. Evidence from the Variance Decomposition Analysis shows that, almost 6% of future fluctuations in mortality rate are due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559223
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A comparative study of the Turkish and German health care systems with regard to quality management in psychiatric hospitals
Yilmaz, Fatma Kantas; Ugur, Tarik Naci Norbert; Rese, … - In: International Journal of Management, Economics and … 8 (2019) 3, pp. 223-241
This paper investigated the delivery of health services based on data recorded at two medium-sized hospitals: Erenkoy Mental Health Research and Training Hospital located in Istanbul/Turkey and LVR-Klinik Viersen in Germany. A comparison of quality management systems in terms of certification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012116458
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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation
Daysal, N. Meltem; Hirani, Jonas Cuzulan - In: IZA World of Labor (2021)
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266227
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The Cost of Restricting Abortion Access
Slusky, David - In: Intereconomics 57 (2022) 3, pp. 199-200
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013343195
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Who cares? Evidence on informal and formal home care use in Estonia
Mozhaeva, Irina - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 19 (2019) 1, pp. 136-154
Despite increasing attention to long-term care (LTC) and related challenges in the Estonian social policy agenda, the distributional fairness of LTC services in the country has received very limited attention. Using SHARE data, we address informal and formal home care services and identify the...
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Managed Care: Prescription for Failure? Lessons from Switzerland
Zweifel, Peter - In: CESifo DICE Report 11 (2013) 1, pp. 27-31
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