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In this paper we set up an overlapping generations model of gerontological founded human aging that takes the interaction between R&D-driven medical progress and access to health care into account. We use the model to explore potential futures of human health and longevity. For the baseline...
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welfare implications, we analyse the factors that explain willingness to pay to avoid malaria morbidity using a meta … prevent (pre-morbidity) or treat malaria (post-morbidity). We add two new results to the morbidity literature. 1) Age has a …
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: time-to-death, morbidity and age structure. The components are analysed theoretically and the results are contrasted with … morbidity explicitly into forecasting future HCE or not. …
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-cyclicality in measures of morbidity, and we find procyclicality in disability, obesity and traffic accidents in densely populated …
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This paper provides a critical review of models of the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that have been influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard models do not incorporate and discusses reasons why...
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Disease spread is in part a function of individual behavior. We examine the factors predicting individual behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States using novel data collected by Belot et al. (2020). Among other factors, we show that people with lower income, less flexible work...
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This paper investigates the importance of the age composition for pandemic policy design. To do so, it introduces an economic framework with age heterogeneity, individual choice, and incomplete information, emphasizing the value of testing. Calibrating the model to the US Covid-19 pandemic...
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We estimate the impact of non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs) on COVID-19 deaths in Scandinavia. We exploit policy variation between Denmark and Norway on the one hand and Sweden on the other. The former deployed relatively more stringent lockdowns, the latter did not. Our...
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cross-country differences in malaria morbidity, and examine the linkage between malaria and economic growth. Using a … morbidity. The data, however, do not suggest that tropical location is destiny: controlling for climate, we find that access to … rural healthcare and income equality influence malaria morbidity. In a cross-section growth framework, we find a significant …
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respectively. For this purpose, the study estimates (i) pseudo-Lorenz ratio for distribution of morbidity (as measured by the … household per capita consumption expenditure); and (ii) Engel elasticity of morbidity with respect to the household's economic … status by disease, individually as well as broad group wise. The paper illustrates with economic gradients in morbidity …
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