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Pharmaceutical innovation, longevity, and medical expenditure in Greece, 1995 - 2010

Lichtenberg, Frank - 2015

death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995 - 2010. The estimates indicate that … increases in the number of hospital days. Real per capita pharmaceutical expenditure increased rapidly during this period, but … 62% of the increase in pharmaceutical expenditure was offset by a reduction in hospital expenditure attributable to …

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Comparison of public, non-profit and private hospitals

Held, Bärbel - In: Equilibrium : quarterly journal of economics and … 10 (2015) 1, pp. 155-178

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Disentangling COVID-19, Economic Mobility, and Containment Policy Shocks

Camehl, Annika; Rieth, Malte - In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 15 (2023) 4, pp. 217-248

We study the dynamic interaction between COVID-19, economic mobility, and containment policy. We use Bayesian panel structural vector autoregressions with daily data for 44 countries, identified through traditional and narrative sign restrictions. We find that incidence shocks and containment...

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The Measurement of Health and the Connection between Health Inequality and Income

Nesson, Erik - 2017

We examine the extent to which self-reported health measures suffer from reporting bias and then characterize how this reporting bias affects the estimation of income-related health inequality as measured by the concentration index. We run a comprehensive set of tests of reporting bias using...

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Measuring Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness in the Health Care Sector

Yu, Kam - 2019

simplicity, ease of use, and consistency of the results.For efficiency comparison across regions or production units, analysts …

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COVID-19 and the CPI : Is Inflation Underestimated?

Reinsdorf, Marshall - 2021

COVID-19 changed consumers' spending patterns, making the CPI weights suddenly obsolete. In most regions, adjusting the CPI weights to account for the changes in spending patterns increases the estimate of inflation over the early months of the pandemic. Under-weighting of rising food prices and...

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Tubeuf, S - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008

This study analyses income-related inequalities in health in France in 2004, using a decomposed concentration index and alternative refined measurements of health. Interval regression method is used to cardinalise self-assessed health. Results are offered at two levels. Firstly, this analysis...

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Regional Inequality of Medical Doctors in Turkey (1897-2004)]

Ciftci, Murat - In: Business and Economics Research Journal 1 (2010) 3, pp. 101-101

This paper looks at long-term change of inter-regional human utility from medical doctors in provinces between Ottoman and Modern Turkey. Using data from the first statistical yearbook of the Ottoman Empire for dynastic period and TUIK web side for republic period and applying method is based on...

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Hunger and Food Insecurity in Nairobi’s Slums : An Assessment Using IRT Models

Faye, Ousmane; Baschieri, Angela; Falkingham, Jane; … - 2014

Although linked to poverty as conditions reflecting inadequate access to resources to obtain food, issues such as hunger and food insecurity have seldom been recognized as important in urban settings. Overall, little is known about the prevalence and magnitude of hunger and food insecurity in...

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Updating Inflation Weights in the UK and Germany During COVID-19

Grigoli, Francesco; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic altered consumption patterns significantly in a short period of time. However, official inflation statistics take time to reflect these changes in the weights of the CPI consumption basket. Using credit card data for the UK and Germany, we document how consumption patterns...

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