Julio Carmona,Ángel León
Julio Carmona
We show how diseases can affect economic growth in a Solow growth model, with population growth and no technical progress, but modified to include a saving rate that depends on the individual health status. We successively insert this model...
Social comparison and subjective well-being: does the health of others matter? [0.03%]
社会比较与主观幸福感：他人的健康状况重要吗？
Vincenzo Carrieri
Vincenzo Carrieri
The importance of social comparison in shaping individual utility has been widely documented by subjective well-being literature. So far, income and unemployment have been the main dimensions considered in social comparison. This paper aims...
Rajeev K Goel
Rajeev K Goel
Using state-level panel data for the USA spanning three decades, this research estimates the demand for cigarettes. The main contribution lies in studying the effects of cigarette advertising disaggregated across five qualitatively differen...
"Quicker and sicker" under Medicare's prospective payment system for hospitals: new evidence on an old issue from a national longitudinal survey [0.03%]
医疗保险住院病人的“ quicker and sicker”问题：来自全国纵向调查的一项关于老问题的新证据
Xufeng Qian,Louise B Russell,Elmira Valiyeva et al.
Xufeng Qian et al.
Medicare's prospective payment system for hospitals (PPS), introduced in the USA in 1983, replaced cost reimbursement with a system of fixed rates which created incentives for hospitals to control costs. Previous studies found that elderly ...
A comparison of the poverty impact of transfers, taxes and market income across five OECD countries [0.03%]
五个OECD国家的转移支付、税收和市场收入对贫困影响的比较分析
Sami Bibi,Jean-Yves Duclos
Sami Bibi
This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the anal...