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The Value of a Statistical Life : A Meta-Analysis with a Mixed Effects Regression Model

Dionne, Georges; Bellavance, François; Lebeau, Martin - 2006

The value of a statistical life (VSL) is a very controversial topic, but one which is essential to the optimization of governmental decisions. Indeed, our society faces any number of risks (health, transportation, work, etc.) and, as resources are limited, their complete elimination is...

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(Anti)Poverty Measures Exposed

Lipman, Francine J. - 2018

Few economic indicators have more salience and pervasive financial impact on everyday lives in the United States than poverty measures. Nevertheless, policymakers, researchers, advocates, and legislators generally do not understand the details of poverty measure mechanics. These detailed...

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Mandated Sick Pay : Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects

Maclean, Catherine; Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021

This paper evaluates how sick pay mandates operate at the job level in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates...

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Health Externalities to Productivity and Efficient Health Subsidies

Yew, Siew Ling; Zhang, Jie - 2023

We explore optimal health subsidies in a dynastic model with health externalities to productivity that cause low health … public or firms’ health subsidies can internalize the externalities through age-specific labor income taxes and consumption …

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Prevention in health insurance : a welfare analysis of participating policies

Barigozzi, Francesca; Bourlès, Renaud; Henriet, Dominique - 2011

Preventive care should be subsidized in traditional insurance contracts since policyholders ignore the benefit of their prevention choice on the insurance premium (Ellis and Manning, 2007 JHE). We study participating policies as risk-sharing agreements among policyholders who decide how much to...

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Externalities of national pharmaceutical policy when markets are integrated through parallel trade

Birg, Laura - 2013

This paper studies externalities of nationally determined cost-sharing systems, in particular coinsurance rates …

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Chapter 31 Prevention

Kenkel, Donald S. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1675-1720). 2000

from a societal perspective: ex ante moral hazard from health insurance, externalities from vaccinations, lack of consumer …

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Externalities of national pharmaceutical policy when markets are integrated through parallel trade : conference paper

Birg, Laura - 2013

This paper studies externalities of nationally determined cost-sharing systems, in particular coinsurance rates …

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Allocating subsidies for private investments to maximize jobs impacts

Robalino Aguirre, David A.; Romero, Jose Manuel; Walker, Ian - 2020

-linked externalities (JLEs). JLEs emerge when wages exceed the opportunity cost of labor (labor externalities), or when there are social … gains from creating better jobs for some classes of worker, such as women or youth (social externalities). Like all … externalities, JLEs create a gap between private and social rates of return. Investments can be socially profitable (once the …

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Norms, incentives and information in income insurance

Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2015

the interaction between norms and economic incentives. …

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