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This chapter covers recent solutions to aggregation problems in three application areas: consumer demand analysis …
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We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this depends on whether the service is universally free-of-charge visits to GP's or privately co-financed dental care. We find that own expenditures for dental care decrease. The...
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Any demand equation satisfying Lau’s (1982) Fundamental Theorem of Exact Aggregation and 0° homogeneity in prices and …
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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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We present a basic exogenous growth model with two consumption goods that differ as regards their contributions to environmental pollution. Allowing for habit formation of the polluting good, we show under which conditions habit formation raises the consumption of the clean good relative to the...
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The standard microeconomic assumption of a household utility function raises two theoretical problems: it contradicts methodological individualism and it ignores economic phenomena such as income and consumption sharing, division of labor, externalities and altruism within a household. This...
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Abstract: Den Kern der Arbeit bildet eine Vorausberechnung der Nachfrage nach niedergelassenen Fachärzten in Baden … Analyse, welche die Voraussetzungen einer effizienten und effektiven Gesundheitsversorgung an den Schnittstellen zwischen dem …Den Kern der Arbeit bildet eine Vorausberechnung der Nachfrage nach niedergelassenen Fachärzten in Baden …
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