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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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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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An Information Theory Based Framework for the Measurement of Population Health

Nesson, Erik; Robinson, Joshua J. - 2015

This paper proposes a new framework for the measurement of population health and the ranking of the health of different geographies. Since population health is a latent variable, studies which measure and rank the health of different geographies must aggregate observable health attributes into...

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How to Measure the Environmental and Health Risk of Exposure to Future Epidemics in Cities?

Coccia, Mario - 2021

This paper suggests a metrics that measures the environmental risk of exposure of cities to future waves of COVID-19 and epidemics of similar vital agents. The proposed index combines environmental, socioeconomic and health risk factors of cities to assess their vulnerability to the diffusion of...

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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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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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Model of comparative analysis of the main indices of economic and social performance of the European Union Countries

Mereuta, Cezar; Albu, Lucian-Liviu; Iordan, Marioara; … - 2012

In the context of current economic and financial crisis a comparative analysis of the main indices of economic and social performance of the EU member states is necessary. In such line of argument, the authors propose, as novelty, an economic power-economic performance matrix as a methodological...

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Comparing hospital and health prices and volumes internationally : results of a EUROSTAT/OECD project

Koechlin, Francette; Konijn, Paul; Lorenzoni, Luca; … - 2014

. The main novel feature is the collection of comparable and output-based prices for hospital services that can then be … of hospital services, instead of prices of inputs such as wages of medical personnel. The new methodology moves away from … the traditional input perspective, thereby relaxing the assumption that hospital productivity is the same across countries... …

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Rental market regulation over the last 100 years in an international comparison

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Weber, Jan Philip; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 45, pp. 453-464

-country comparison. Such a comparison shows that Germany-compared to the rest of Europe-has relatively intense rent control which has …

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