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The upward trend in the incidence of caesarean deliveries is a widespread stylised fact in many countries. Several studies have argued that it does not reflect, at least in part, patients' needs but that it is also influenced by other factors, such as providers/physicians incentives. Not...
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries, including the U.S., adopted intervention policies aimed at averting the spread. However, these policies may have led to significant changes in public health behaviors. We use Google search queries to examine how state government actions are...
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This paper presents an overlapping generations model where agents face labor-income and health risks in order to quantify the macroeconomic and welfare consequences of reform options for the German health insurance system. In addition to labor supply, consumption and savings, households also...
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tax on pollution and a subsidy on abatement activity. We help elucidate this policy choice by exploring the tax-subsidy … financing the tax or subsidy. We solve the model numerically based on Chinese data. We find that if revenue-recycling via lump … for the distribution of income between wages and profits) as an equivalent abatement subsidy. The move from recycling to …
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