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Intergenerational Insurance [PDF]
How should successive generations insure each other when the young can default on previously promised transfers to the old? This paper studies intergenerational insurance that maximizes the expected discounted utility of all generations subject to participation constraints for each generation.
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Estimating the Demand Factors and Willingness to Pay for Agricultural Insurance [PDF]
Australian Journal of Engineering Research, 1(4), pp 13 to 18
(2014), 2020 This article investigates the effect of prices and socio-demographic variables on the farmers decision to purchase agricultural insurance. A survey has been conducted to 200 farmers most of whom are engaged in diversified income-generating activities.
arxiv
US employment exposure to domestic and foreign tariff changes under NAFTA
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Literature examining the effects of changes in trade agreements and import competition on US employment and wages has focused primarily on non‐agricultural industries and changes in US import tariffs. We propose a method for measuring worker exposure to changes in agricultural tariffs using a newly developed county‐level dataset of employment ...
Diane E. Charlton +3 more
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Journal of Translational MedicineBackground The tumor-agnostic indication of immune checkpoint inhibitors to treat cancers with mismatch repair deficiency (dMMR)/microsatellite instability (MSI) increased the demand for such tests beyond Lynch syndrome.
Maja L. Nádorvári +6 more
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Towards solutions for assistive technology [PDF]
Introduction What is assistive technology? The agreed World Health Organisation definition is "Assistive technology can be defined as “any piece of equipment, or product, whether it is acquired commercially, modified, or customized, that is used to ...
National Disability Insurance Agency
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Readability, Contracts of Recurring Use, nd the Problem of Ex Post Judicial Governance of Health Insurance Policies [PDF]
, 2010 While the rhetoric surrounding the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act focused on core issues such as cost, quality, and access to care, the dialog rarely acknowledged a key problem-the fact that most Americans do not understand ...
Cogan, John Aloysius, Jr.
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King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
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Trajectories of work disability and unemployment among young adults with common mental disorders
BMC Public Health, 2018 Background Labour-market marginalisation (LMM) and common mental disorders (CMDs) are serious societal problems. The aims were to describe trajectories of LMM (both work disability and unemployment) among young adults with and without CMDs, and to ...
Magnus Helgesson +5 more
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BIS- A Blockchain-based Solution for the Insurance Industry in Smart Cities [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Insurance is one of the fundamental services offered to the citizens to reduce their costs and assist them in case of an emergency. One of the most important challenges in the insurance industry is to address liability challenge and the forging of documents by the involved parties, i.e., insurance company or the users, in order to increase financial ...
arxiv
Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This study aims to provide actionable recommendations for leveraging digital innovation for the achievement of scalable, equitable, and transparent Net Zero Energy Transition by offering actionable recommendations. As a result of this comprehensive analysis, the review highlights the critical interplay between digital technologies and GF as vital ...
Furkan Ahmad +3 more
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