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decision. A government may tax the sin good and provide mandatory health insurance. Due to time-inconsistency, the individual … sin good and savings choices in ict internalities. Due to the ex-ante moral hazard of health insurance, sin good …- pled, the government can achieve the first-best outcome using a uniform tax rate and uniform health insurance. Moreover, in …
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and temporal variation in housing price appreciation linked to individual-level health data in China from 2000 to 2011. We … diseases. This negative health impact is more pronounced among individuals from low-income families, households that purchased … marriage market competition exacerbates these negative health effects, particularly for males and parents with young adult sons …
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Cost-sharing is regarded as an important tool to reduce moral hazard in health insurance. Contrary to standard …
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health. These effects may extend to the partner or spouse through household decision-making. Using administrative data of all … plant closure, both the man and the spouse suffer negative health consequences. When a woman loses here job, in contrast, we … find no such dire health consequences. We explore three explanations for this phenomenon: the role of spousal labor supply …
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changing health care utilization. However, with field data it is difficult to keep the spot price among individuals constant … insured by a health plan with a deductible and go through a cycle of periods. In each period they face probabilistic health … perfectly myopic individuals. We find that a relationship between spending on health care and risk preferences, forward …
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health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …
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.8 percentage points. Such impact is especially strong among the more vulnerable elder parents with worse health and little pension … sizes and compelling old parents in bad health to continue working. …
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The paper estimates the effect of SO2 pollution on infant mortality in Germany, 1985-2003. To avoid simultaneity problems, I exploit the natural experiment created by the mandated desulfurization at power plants, with wind directions dividing counties into treatment and control groups....
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In this paper, we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West …. Overall, our estimates suggest significant non-monetary returns to education with respect to health and health …
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detrimental behavioral responses. We explore this idea in the context of endogenous health and aging. We integrate physiological … state of health affects health spending, life expectancy, and the value of life. In counterfactual computational experiments … lifetime utility, health investments, and longevity. We then use the model to contribute to the literature on information …
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