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Government announced that through this reform it had successfully reduced the number of unemployed by 25% representing around 45 …,000 individuals. However, an evaluation of the impact of this policy reform on labour market outcomes for the severely disabled …
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literature by estimating both switch-on and switch-off effects, because the reform was repealed two years later. We find a two … terms) at higher quantiles, meaning that the reform predominantly reduced long durations of absence. In terms of health, the … reform reduced the average number of days spent in hospital by almost half a day, but we cannot find robust evidence for …
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This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
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main objective of the reform was to reduce the amount of benefits for individuals that do not have a long contributory … history as the reform introduced a disincentive to apply to the system if the individual does not have 35 years of effective …
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assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort reform are small for infants in an asset value sense and that the prime …-aged working population is the group most negatively affected by tort reform. Maximum entropy quantile regressions highlight the …
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We study how the threat of entry affects service quantity and quality of general practitioners (GPs). We leverage Germany's needs-based primary care planning system, in which the likelihood of new GPs reduces by 20 percentage points when primary care coverage exceeds a cut-off. We compile novel...
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We leverage the expansion of the National Social Assistance Program (NSAP) in India in 2006 to estimate the impact of access to public pensions on three measures of depression for the elderly in below poverty line households, using a regression discontinuity design based on age-eligibility...
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Over the past decades, many European countries have raised the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) from 16 to 18 years. This study provides novel evidence of the impact of this policy on educational outcomes by exploiting the staggered timing of MLDA changes across Spanish regions. Raising the...
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Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide and a critical public health concern. We examine the hypothesis of suicide contagion within in the workplace, investigating whether exposure to a coworker's suicide increases an individual's suicide risk. Using high-quality administrative data from...
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Alcohol exclusion provisions, embedded in the Uniform Accident and Sickness Policy Provision Law (UPPL), allow health insurance providers to punish alcohol consumption by permitting them to deny claims for injuries stemming from alcohol impairment or the use of non-prescribed narcotics. Although...
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