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The Economics of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
Nathan Tefft
Obesity is widely recognized as a chronic disease characterized by an elevated risk of adverse health conditions in association with excess body fat accumulation. Obesity prevalence ...
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The Economics of Cognitive Aging
Fabrizio Mazzonna and Franco Peracchi
Population aging, the combined effect of declining fertility and rising life expectancy, is one of the fundamental trends observed in developed counties and, increasingly, in developing ...
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The Economics of Copyright Law and Problems With Its Implementation
Jeffrey L. Harrison
Without copyright law, authors would be unable to internalize the benefits of their writings. Copyright law reacts to this by providing authors with a period of exclusivity. The relevant ...
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The Economics of End-of-Life Spending
Hans Olav Melberg
End-of-life spending is commonly defined as all health costs in the 12 months before death. Typically, the costs represent about 10% of all health expenses in many countries, and there is ...
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The Economics of Families and Health
Susan Averett and Jennifer Kohn
An individual’s health is produced in large part by family investments that start before birth and continue to the end of life. The health of an individual is intertwined with practically ...
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The Economics of Infectious Diseases
Katharina Hauck
Economics can make immensely valuable contributions to our understanding of infectious disease transmission and the design of effective policy responses. The one unique characteristic of ...
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The Economics of Informal Care
Courtney Van Houtven, Fiona Carmichael, Josephine Jacobs, and Peter C. Coyte
Across the globe, the most common means of supporting older disabled adults in their homes is through “informal care.” An informal carer is a family member or friend, including children or ...
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The Economics of Long-Term Care
Norman Bannenberg, Martin Karlsson, and Hendrik Schmitz
Long-term care (LTC) is arguably the sector of the economy that is most sensitive to population aging: its recipients are typically older than 80 years whereas most care providers are of ...
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The Economics of Malaria Prevention
Bénédicte Apouey, Gabriel Picone, and Joshua Wilde
Malaria is a potentially life-threatening disease transmitted through the bites of female anopheline mosquitos infected with protozoan parasites. Malaria remains one of the major causes of ...
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Economics of Rural–Urban Migration
Pei-Ju Liao and Chong Kee Yip
In the past century, many developing countries have experienced rapid economic development, which is usually associated with a process of structural transformation and urbanization. ...
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The Economics of Smoking Prevention
Philip DeCicca, Donald S. Kenkel, Michael F. Lovenheim, and Erik Nesson
Smoking prevention has been a key component of health policy in developed nations for over half a century. Public policies to reduce the physical harm attributed to cigarette smoking, both ...
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Economic Theory of Criminal Law
Keith N. Hylton
Criminal law consists of substantive and procedural parts. Substantive law is the set of rules defining conduct that violates the law. Procedural criminal law is the set of rules ...
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Effectiveness and Availability of Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Dominic Hodgkin and Hilary S. Connery
Drug and alcohol use disorders, also called substance use disorders (SUD), are among the major health problems facing many countries, contributing a substantial burden in terms of ...
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The Effect of Education on Health and Mortality: A Review of Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Titus Galama, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Hans van Kippersluis
Education is strongly associated with better health and longer lives. However, the extent to which education causes health and longevity is widely debated. We develop a human capital ...
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The Effect of Government Policy on Pharmaceutical Drug Innovation
Ayman Chit and Paul Grootendorst
Drug companies are profit-maximizing entities, and profit is, by definition, revenue less cost. Here we review the impact of government policies that affect sales revenues earned on newly ...
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The Effects of Monetary Policy Announcements
Chao Gu, Han Han, and Randall Wright
The effects of news (i.e., information innovations) are studied in dynamic general equilibrium models where liquidity matters. As a leading example, news can be announcements about ...
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The Effects of Prenatal Care on Birth Outcomes: Reconciling a Messy Literature
Hope Corman, Dhaval Dave, and Nancy E. Reichman
Prenatal care, one of the most frequently used forms of healthcare in the United States, involves a series of encounters during the gestational period, educates women about pregnancy, ...
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The Employment Effects of Minimum Wages: Some Questions We Need to Answer
David Neumark
The literature on the employment effects of minimum wages is about a century old, and includes hundreds of studies. Yet the debate among researchers about the employment effects of minimum ...
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Equality of Opportunity in Health and Healthcare
Florence Jusot and Sandy Tubeuf
Recent developments in the analysis of inequality in health and healthcare have turned their interest into an explicit normative understanding of the sources of inequalities that calls ...
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Estimation and Inference for Cointegrating Regressions
Martin Wagner
Widely used modified least squares estimators for estimation and inference in cointegrating regressions are discussed. The standard case with cointegration in the I(1) setting is examined ...
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