How do health crises affect election results? We combine a panel of election results from 1893-1933 with spatial … lasting shift towards left-wing parties. We argue that pandemic intensity increased the salience of public health policy …, prompting voters to reward parties signaling competence in health issues. Alternative explanations such as pandemic …

methods to provide both central estimates and bounds on the effect of health insurance on health and mortality among the near …We use the best available longitudinal dataset, the Health and Retirement Survey, and a battery of causal inference … average effect of uninsurance on mortality and health is plausible, some selection effects that might explain our full results …

This paper analyses the effect of fiscal decentralisation on health outcomes in China using a panel data set with … only limited revenues, the ability to spend on local public goods such as health care depends crucially upon …

survey of the state of Canadian economic policy in the areas of pensions and health care. He argues that it is appropriate to …. He recognizes that all three of the pillars cannot be directly applied to health care, but he argues that the three …’s health system and illuminates interactions between the pension and health systems. Hence his title “six pillars of social …

The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of health expenditure in Malaysia within the time series … relationship. The results showed that health expenditure and its determinants are cointegrated. Consistent with economic theory …, the TYDL and variance decomposition analysis reveals that the key explanatory variables in Malaysia’s health expenditure …

We address the efficiency in education and health sectors for a sample of OECD countries by applying two alternative …

This chapter investigates how effective recent changes in the South African public health care system have been in …, decentralisation, the elimination of primary health care user fees and expansion of the network of clinics changed the incidence of … indicate that the distribution of health spending on hospitals and clinics is driven by utilisation patterns. The decision by …

This paper presents a summary of th 11th Annual Health Policy Conference, November 6, 1998, Vancouver, British Columbia. …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the links between health status, education and economic growth in Portugal. Focus … health sector, it is also important to note that it is a result of other socioeconomic factors outside the health system … causation effects between health, education and per capita income growth. Having this in mind, in this paper we use a three …