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Occupational Retirement and Pension Reform: The Roles of Physical and Cognitive Health [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Despite increasing cognitive demands of jobs, knowledge about the role of health in retirement has centered on its physical dimensions. This paper estimates a dynamic programming model of retirement that incorporates multiple health dimensions, allowing differential effects on labor supply across occupations.
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Immigrant assimilation in health care utilisation in Spain [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Abundant evidence has tracked the labour market and health assimilation of immigrants, including static analyses of differences in how foreign-born and native-born residents consume health care services. However, we know much less about how migrants' patterns of health care usage evolve with time of residence, especially in countries providing ...
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Social security and labor absenteeism in a regional health service [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Absenteism can generate important economic costs. Aim: To analyze the determinants of the time off work for sick leaves granted to workers of a regional health service. Material and Methods: Information about 2033 individuals, working at a health service, that were granted at least one sick leave during 2012, was analyzed.
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Behavioral Economics and Health Economics [PDF]
, 2004 The health sector is filled with institutions and decision-making circumstances that create friction in markets and cognitive errors by decision makers. This paper examines the potential contributions to health economics of the ideas of behavioral economics.
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, 2023 This Element examines economic perspectives on improving quality and safety in healthcare. Though competition is generally recognised by economists as an important driver of improvement, it may not work so straightforwardly in healthcare – in part because some services are provided by very few organisations, but also because people are not always ...
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Modeling National Latent Socioeconomic Health and Examination of Policy Effects via Causal Inference [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 This research develops a socioeconomic health index for nations through a model-based approach which incorporates spatial dependence and examines the impact of a policy through a causal modeling framework. As the gross domestic product (GDP) has been regarded as a dated measure and tool for benchmarking a nation's economic performance, there has been a
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Catastrophic health expenditure and inequalities -- a district level study of West Bengal [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 In this study, I aimed to estimate the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure and analyze the extent of inequalities in out-of-pocket health expenditure and its decomposition according to gender, sector, religion and social groups of the households across Districts of West Bengal.
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The Rise of Health Economics: Transforming the Landscape of Economic Research [PDF]
arXivThis paper explores the evolving role of health economics within economic research and publishing over the past 30 years. Historically largely a niche field, health economics has become increasingly prominent, with the share of health economics papers in top journals growing significantly.
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The Evolution of Health Investment: Historical Motivations and Fertility Implications [PDF]
arXivIn this working paper, I developed a suite of macroeconomic models that shed light on the intricate relationship between economic development, health, and fertility. These innovative models conceptualize health as an intermediate good, paving the way for new interpretations of dynamic socio-economic phenomena, particularly the non-monotonic effects of ...
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