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Is more health always better? Exploring public preferences that violate monotonicity
Abásolo, Ignacio; Tsuchiya, Aki - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2009
-equality trade-off in health, where the majority of respondents violated monotonicity. The procedure used has been subject to … criticisms regarding potential biases in the results. The aim of this paper is to analyse whether violation of monotonicity … remains when a revised questionnaire is used. We test: whether monotonicity is violated when we allow for inequality neutral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008625795
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Health and income: a robust comparison of Canada and the US
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Échevin, Damien - 2009
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269622
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Health, Family Planning and Well-Being in Indonesia during an Economic Crisis: Early Results from the Indonesian Family Life Survey.
Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Beegle, Kathleen; Sikoki, Bondan; … - RAND - 1999
After almost three decades of sustained economic growth, Indonesia is currently in the midst of a major economic and financial crisis. This paper seeks to contribute new evidence on three questions: who has been affected most by the crisis, how they have been affected and how they have responded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005526951
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Measuring Change in Indonesia.
Beegle, K.; Frankenberg, E.; Thomas, D. - Labor and Population Program, RAND - 1999
After almost three decades of sustained economic growth, Indonesia is currently in the midst of a major economic and financial crisis. This paper seeks to contribute new evidence on three questions: who has been affected most by the crisis, how they have been affected and how they have responded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005479158
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Unfair inequalities in health and health care
FLEURBAEY, Marc; SCHOKKAERT, Erik - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2007
Inequalities in health and health care are caused by different factors. Measuring "unfair"inequalities implies that a distinction is introduced between causal variables leading toethically legitimate inequalities and causal variables leading to ethically illegitimateinequalities. An example of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005043673
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Health and Income: a Robust Comparison of Canada and the US
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Échevin, Damien - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2009
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015293
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Health and Income: A Robust Comparison of Canada and the US
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Échevin, Damien - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2009
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the First application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimen- sional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005052113
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The Origins and the Evolution of Health Economics: a discipline by itself? Led by economists, practitioners or politics?
Rebelo, Luís Pina - Faculdade de Economia e Gestão, Universidade Católica … - 2007
Health has become a dominant economic and political issue over the past 40 years, with nations experiencing rapid rises in health care spending, and the health sector presenting high levels of expansion, rationalization and organization. I describe how by the end of World War II, both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027392
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Economic Analysis of Health Sector Projects -A Review of Issues Methods, and Approaches.
Adhikari, R.; Gertler, P.; Lagman, A. - Asian Development Bank - 1999
The paper asserts that project designs and benefit valuation in the health sector are much more complex than in other sectors that traditionally apply economic cost-benefit analysis. The paper discusses the key issues in the economic analysis of health sector projects and then presents possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005660997
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Health, Family Planning and Well-Being in Indonesia during an Economic Crisis: Early Results from the Indonesian Family Life Survey.
Frankenberg, E.; Beegle, K.; Sikoki, B.; Thomas, D. - Labor and Population Program, RAND - 1999
After almost three decades of sustained economic growth, Indonesia is currently in the midst of a major economic and financial crisis. This paper seeks to contribute new evidence on three questions: who has been affected most by the crisis, how they have been affected and how they have responded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779823