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Using stated preference methods to evaluate the impact of water on health: the case of metropolitan Cairo

Abou-Ali, Hala - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2003

This paper analysis the impact of better water quality on health improvements using two stated preference methods … rather small willingness to pay for reducing health risks owing to water quality. <p> …

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Evaluating the welfare effects of improved water quality using the choice experiment method

Abou-Ali, Hala; Carlsson, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

This paper analyzes the welfare effects of improved health status through increased water quality using a choice … estimating individual level willingness to pay(WTP). We find a significant WTP for improved health status, both for short-run and … long-run health effects. However, the estimated WTP is fairly low compared with the costs of a program that would achieve …

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Sick of being unemployed? Interactions between unemployment and sickness insurance in Sweden

Larsson, Laura - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2002

This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness insurance (SI), two important components of Sweden’s social insurance system. There are two main topics of interest: how the sickness report rate and the length of the...

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Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life

van den Berg, Gerard; Lindeboom, Maarten; López, Marta - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007

We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class …-2000, and we merge these with historical data on macro-economic outcomes and health indicators. We estimate duration models and … inequality measures. The results indicate that being born in a recession increases the mortality rate later in life for most of …

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Moral hazard among the sick and unemployed: evidence from a Swedish social insurance reform

Larsson, Laura; Runeson, Caroline - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007

This paper looks at a specific type of moral hazard that arises in the interplay between two large public insurance systems in Sweden, namely the sickness insurance (SI) and the unemployment insurance (UI). Moral hazard can arise from the benefit size structure as for some unemployed persons,...

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The Impact of Tax Reforms Designed to Encourage a Healthier Grain Consumption

Nordström, Jonas; Thunström, Linda - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2007

In this paper, we simulate the effects of taxes on products and/or nutrients aimed at encouraging a healthier grain consumption. To carry out the analysis, we use a rich data set on household consumption of grain products, combined with information about the nutritional content of the products....

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Socioeconomic Status and Sickness Absence - What do twins tell us about causality?

Nilsson, William - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

the workplace due to sickness. To be able to conclude that income causally affects health it is important to control for …

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Pension Reforms in Norway: Evidence from a Structural Dynamic Model

Iskhakov, Fedor - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2008

health and retirement estimated on the Norwegian labour market data. The paper focuses on the two main elements of the reform … total social welfare, individuals in good health who retire early experience a negative change in their discounted utility …

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Trade-offs between health and absenteeism in welfare states: striking the balance

Markussen, Simen - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2007

well understood in economics. This paper presents a model where absenteeism is understood in relation to health. Its main … excess long-term absenteeism and (iii) strict regimes lead to excess short-term absenteeism. (iv) Maximizing health is not …

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Individual Mortality and Macro Economic Conditions from Birth to Death

Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2003

health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macro-economic conditions during childhood on mortality at all …This paper analyzes the effects of macro-economic conditions throughout life on the individual mortality rate. We … estimate flexible duration models where the individual's mortality rate depends on current conditions, conditions earlier in …

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