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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
distributional fairness of LTC services in the country has received very limited attention. Using SHARE data, we address informal and …
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Quantifying the broader economic consequences of quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in Germany applying a government perspective framework
Kotsopoulos, Nikolaos; Connolly, Mark P.; Remy, Vanessa - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 23, pp. 1-11
study was to evaluate the broader economic consequences associated with HPV vaccination in males and females and to conduct … a lifetime cost-benefit analysis of investing in universal vaccination in Germany from the perspective of government … consequences of HPV vaccination including the fiscal impact for the government. A cohort model was developed simulating the medical …
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Timing matters: The impact of response measures on COVID-19-related hospitalization and death rates in Germany and Switzerland
Huber, Martin; Langen, Henrika - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 156 (2020) 1, pp. 1-19
We assess the impact of the timing of lockdown measures implemented in Germany and Switzerland on cumulative COVID-19-related hospitalization and death rates. Our analysis exploits the fact that the epidemic was more advanced in some regions than in others when certain lockdown measures came...
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Alcohol, Violence and Injury-Induced Mortality: Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics (2022) Online Early, Just Accepted, pp. 1-44
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14%. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on...
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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 expenditure, and food production index in Ghana was investigated spanning from 1971 to 2013 using the Autoregressive and Distributed Lag (ARDL) method. The study tested for unit root,...
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Sports, exercise, and labor market outcomes
Lechner, Michael - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
A productive workforce is a key objective of public economic policy. Recent empirical work suggests that increasing individual participation in sports and exercise can be a major force for achieving this goal. The productivity gains and related increase in earnings come on top of the already...
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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...
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Using Econometrics to Understand Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in the Workforce of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sehic, Ensar; Satrovic, Elma; Fijuljanin, Seid - In: Economic Review: Journal of Economics and Business 13 (2015) 2, pp. 52-61
Persons with disabilities have relevant working capacity. Employers who recruit those persons assume that their disabilities do not decrease organization’s productivity. Persons with disabilities can normally fit into working environment. The studies of employers’ attitude towards persons...
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The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for public health policies
Anauati, Maria Victoria; Galiani, Sebastian; … - In: Latin American Economic Review 24 (2015) 1, pp. 1-56
quality healthcare in a scenario in which a large share of the labor force is employed in the informal sector. This paper …
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Effect of reducing cost sharing for outpatient care on children's inpatient services in Japan
Kato, Hirotaka; Goto, Rei - In: Health Economics Review 7 (2017) 28, pp. 1-10
Background: Assessing the impact of cost sharing on healthcare utilization is a critical issue in health economics and health policy. It may affect the utilization of different services, but is yet to be well understood. Objective: This paper investigates the effects of reducing cost sharing for...
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