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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

Bloom, David E. - 2013

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …

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The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases : Estimates and Projections for China, Japan and South Korea

Bloom, David E. - 2017

-effectiveness analysis by identifying some intervention strategies to reduce disease prevalence in China that are cost beneficial and … of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic …, this approach allows us to account for i) variations in human capital for workers in different age groups, ii) mortality …

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International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences

Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2009

In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of...

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Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control Covid-19? Local Shelter-in-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth

Dave, Dhaval - 2020

One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the first to explore the comparative effectiveness of early county-level SIPOs versus later statewide...

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The Morbidity Costs of Air Pollution Through the Lens of Health Spending in China

Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xun; Liu, Yuehua; Zhao, Xintong; Chen, Xi - 2023

program in Wuhan, China. Our instrumental variable (IV) approach uses thermal inversion to address potential endogeneity in PM …

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Effect of Health Insurance in India : A Randomized Controlled Trial

Malani, Anup; Holtzman, Phoebe; Imai, Kosuke; Kinnan, … - 2022

We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the fraction of households offered insurance varied across...

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Poverty and Survival

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2010

more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …

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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Yi, Junjian - 2014

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...

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Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure

Liu, Hong - 2012

In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical …. We estimate the impact of this program on health care utilization and expenditure using 2006 and 2009 waves of the China …

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Disease and Fertility : Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Sweden

Boberg-Fazlic, Nina - 2017

mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility … increase in births to married women and better-off city dwellers.Our findings help understand the link between mortality and …

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