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Genetic testing when there is a mix of compulsory and voluntary health insurance

Hoel, Michael; Iversen, Tor - 2001

Genetic insurance can deal with the negative effects of genetic testing on insurance coverage and income distribution when the insurer has access to information about test status. Hence, efficient testing is promoted. When information about prevention and test status is private, two types of...

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Public Expenditures on Education and Health in Ukraine Before and During the Global Crisis

Boyarchuk, Dmytro - 2011

The report analyzes the impact of the global financial crisis on public services delivery in education and healthcare. The analysis has been undertaken from the macro-perspective. Pre-crisis and crisis economic developments are outlined and fiscal accounts developments are presented. The...

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Public Expenditures on Education and Health in Belarus Before and During the Global Crisis

Kruk, Dzmitry - 2011

The paper deals with the impact of the global financial crisis on public service delivery - mainly education and healthcare - in Belarus. The pre-crisis period of 2003-2008 was the most prosperous in recent history. These trends resulted in a pretty good fiscal performance. Nevertheless, the...

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Public Expenditures on Education and Health in Georgia Before and During the Global Crisis

Labadze, Lasha - 2011

After years of stagnation and political cataclysms, Georgia tried to recover by launching radical economic and political reforms starting in 2004. The results of the reforms appeared to be impressive. The country's GDP has more than doubled; the total volume of bank deposits is five times what it...

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Public Expenditures on Education and Health in the Kyrgyz Republic Before and During the Global Crisis

Mogilevsky, Roman - 2011

This paper analyses the public finance performance and the dynamics of government expenditures on education and health … political crisis in 2010. Despite these crisis conditions, public health expenditures have increased substantially. In education …-term is going to be difficult, so efficiency-oriented reforms need to be implemented in health care and especially in …

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The Efficiency of Government Expenditure : Experiences from Africa

Gupta, Sanjeev - 2006

This paper assesses the efficiency of government expenditure on education and health in 38 countries in Africa in 1984 … health spending in Africa became more efficient during that period. The assessment further suggests that improvements in … educational attainment and health output in African countries require more than just higher budgetary allocations …

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The Effect of Social Spending on Reducing Poverty

Celikay, Ferdi - 2017

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between social expenditure and poverty in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach – There are voluminous studies in the literature and many of which contain contradictory results. The authors use panel...

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Could Obesity Be Contagious?

Mathieu-Bolh, Nathalie - 2019

This paper contributes to explaining the obesity epidemic and finding a potential remedy. We build a theoretical model of food consumption decisions that accounts for social influence. In our model, individuals' rationality is affected by an endogenous social weight norm, which influences their...

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Government Education Loan Repayment Programs for Primary-Care Health-Care Professionals

Feuer, Albert - 2016

Many health care professionals are burdened with substantial educational loans when they complete their formal … schooling. Physicians and other health care professionals providing care in communities that have shortages of primary … available to New York healthcare providers: (1) the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program; (2) the National Nurse …

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Incentives and Children's Dietary Choices : A Field Experiment in Primary Schools

Belot, Michèle - 2015

We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary incentive schemes, an individual based incentive scheme and a competitive scheme, on increasing the choice and consumption of fruit and vegetables at lunchtime. The individual scheme...

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