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The COVID report card
Czasonis, Megan; Kritzman, Mark; Pamir, Baykan; … - 2020 - This version: October 16, 2020
The authors model COVID infections and COVID deaths, both reported and implied, for the 50 U.S. states as well as the District of Columbia, and separately for a sample of 33 countries, as a function of pre-existing circumstances that citizens have no ability to control over the short term. These...
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Welfare Implications of Hiv/Aids
Crafts, Nicholas - 2010
The paper evaluates the impact of HIV/AIDS on welfare in several countries affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Unlike … studies focusing on the impact of HIV/AIDS on GDP per capita, we evaluate the impact of increased mortality using estimates of … the value of statistical life. Our results illustrate the catastrophic impact of HIV/AIDS in the worst-affected countries …
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An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Greenwood, Jeremy; Kircher, Philipp; Santos, Cézar; … - 2013
Eleven percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used one quarter of the time. A choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed to analyze the Malawian epidemic. In the developed framework, people select...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159535
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Negative Reality of the HIV Positives: Evaluating Welfare Loss in a Low Prevalence Country
Das, Sanghamitra; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Ray, Tridip - 2008
Using primary household data from India we estimate family utility function parameters that measure the relative importance of consumption, schooling of children and health (both physical and mental) and find that mental health is far more important than consumption or children’s schooling in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015267037
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Negative Reality of the HIV Positives: Evaluating Welfare Loss in a Low Prevalence Country
Das, Sanghamitra; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Ray, Tridip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Using primary household data from India we estimate family utility function parameters that measure the relative importance of consumption, schooling of children and health (both physical and mental) and find that mental health is far more important than consumption or children’s schooling in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621990
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Determinants and Composition of the Economic Impact of HIV in Seven Southern African Firms
van Zyl, Andrew; Muirhead, Debbie; Hongoro, Charles; … - 2007
. Methodology: We collected data from seven Southern African companies from 2002 - 2005 on economic cost of HIV/AIDS and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049574
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AIDS and dualism : Ethiopiaś burden under rational expectations
Bell, Clive; Koukoumelis, Anastasios - 2009
An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to … socially very profitable. -- HIV/AIDS ; Growth ; Dualism ; Ethiopia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833098
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Modeling the Macroeconomic Impact of Hiv/Aids
Haacker, Markus - 2021
The paper addresses the impact of HIV/AIDS on per capita output and income, with particular emphasis on the role of … finds that HIV/AIDS affects both the supply of labor and the demand for labor in the formal sector. Only if there is a … HIV/AIDS on output is complemented by an assessment of the impact on income …
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What is the Effect of Tort Reform on African-American Access to Health Care?
Wolfson, Jonathan Adam - 2012
This study examines the impact of tort reform on minority access to medical care. Past research has investigated tort reform, but this is the first study to consider minority healthcare access. I examine 261 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) from 1993-2000 to test the impact of non-economic...
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Modelling the dynamic effects of elective hospital admissions on emergency levels in England
Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Nicodemo, Catia; Redding, Stuart - 2019
In England as elsewhere, policy makers are trying to reduce the pressure on costs due to rising hospital admissions by encouraging GPs to refer fewer patients to hospital specialists. This could have an impact on elective treatment levels, particularly procedures for conditions which are not...
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