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Managers and internationalization decisions: An affect‐enacted model
Abstract Research Summary This paper identifies a critical gap in foundational assumptions between traditional International Business (IB) theories (e.g., internalization theory and Uppsala model) and empirical individual‐level research. Traditional theories, rooted in assumptions of bounded rationality, tend to overlook the influence of affective ...
Marica Grego+4 more
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Abstract Research Summary We extend the property rights theory to show that stronger ownership control incentivizes owners to push for communalizing private environmental costs unless counterbalancing internal and external governance mechanisms are prevalent. Using a sample of 16,286 observations for 3275 firms across 43 countries between 2008 and 2017,
Punit Arora, Tanusree Jain, Ajai Gaur
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Income‐Related Inequalities in Future Health Prospects
ABSTRACT Measuring health disparities is key to monitoring health systems, but hitherto disparities in the individual risk people face about their future health has been neglected. This paper integrates individual health risk into income‐related health inequality measurement.
Gustav Kjellsson+2 more
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Inequality Measurement for Bounded Variables
ABSTRACT Many health indicators are bounded, that is, their values lie between a lower and an upper bound. Inequality measurement with bounded variables faces two normative challenges well‐known in the health inequality literature. One is that inequality rankings may or may not be consistent across admissible attainment and shortfall representations of
Inaki Permanyer+2 more
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Insurance Expansion During Pregnancy
ABSTRACT We analyze how the abolition of cost‐sharing in health insurance affects pregnant women's gross spending on health care services using an exogenous policy change in Switzerland. Using non‐linear regression, we find that the policy slightly increases average gross spending, contrasting policymaker expectations of no impact on demand.
Philip Hochuli, Christian P. R. Schmid
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ABSTRACT In Australia, as in many other countries, people living in rural and remote areas experience poorer health outcomes and use less primary healthcare compared to urban populations. Aiming to reduce these inequities, in 2022 the Australian government increased rural‐based financial incentives for General Practitioners (GPs) to “bulk bill” (i.e ...
Karinna Saxby, Yuting Zhang
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ABSTRACT People are sometimes forced to move, and it is plausible that such relocation involves significant psychological costs. The challenge in identifying the mental health consequences of moving is that most moves are (at least partly) voluntary so that the sample of movers is self‐selected. We focus on a natural experiment, the government‐mandated
Thoa Hoang, Ilan Noy, Thinh Le Van
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Front-of-package labelling: A public health imperative rooted in the right to health. [PDF]
Radu YT, Mahomedy S.
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A Simple Measure of Catastrophic Health Expenditures
ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose a simple Watts‐type measure of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) which is an adaptation of the classic Watts poverty measure. The appeal of the proposed measure stems from the fact that it is both additively decomposable (i.e., it provides information on the contributions of the various population subgroups of ...
Tomson Ogwang, Germano Mwabu
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Economic methodology to preserve the past? Some reflections on economic theories and their dueling interpretations. [PDF]
Herfeld C.
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