En este trabajo estimamos el Valor Monetario de una Vida Estadística en España a partir de preferencias declaradas por la población general. El contexto de valoración elegido es el de los accidentes de tráfico. La metodología empleada es la Valoración Contingente. En la encuesta realizada...

With the economic crisis, the fight against unemployment in most countries 1 is coetaneous to the need to restrain public expenditure in closing budget deficits. As a consequence, spending cuts have started to affect a large number of decisions that directly or indirectly may be expected to have...

El análisis de las desigualdades en salud plantea dificultades conceptuales a la hora de traducirse en políticas de equidad en la asignación de los recursos sanitarios. En este trabajo se analiza la evidencia empírica que estudia los determinantes de la salud de las poblaciones —y en...

The dispute over the manner of computing fiscal imbalances is not a technical one. Different methods serve different purposes and these purposes are political rather than simply economic. They differ basically in the consideration that territorial jurisdictions may merit. This is whether they...

By means of a literature review this paper aims at shedding more light on the potentialities of unhealthy food/drink taxation in changing eating patterns and life styles and hence combating the obesity epidemic. One remarkable point that emerges when assessing the set of selected papers is the...

The assessment on the relevance of public spending on economic growth has deserved an important attention in the economic literature. However its empirical approach by testing the effects by an aggregate production function may mislead the results since the composition of public expenditure,...