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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle

Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...

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Österreichs Staatsausgabenstrukturen im europäischen Vergleich

Heimberger, Philipp - 2017

Diese Studie liefert eine detaillierte Analyse der Staatsausgabenstrukturen Österreichs im europäischen Vergleich anhand der COFOG-Daten ("Classification of the Functions of Government") von Eurostat. Der Fokus der Untersuchung liegt zum einen auf einer Einordnung der Staatsausgabenstrukturen...

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Modellrechnungen für den vierten Tragfähigkeitsbericht des BMF

Werding, Martin - 2016

öffentlicher Ausgaben für Alterssicherung, Gesundheit und Pflege, Leistungen an Arbeitslose sowie Bildung und Familien bis 2060 …-term care, unemployment benefits, education and family policy are projected until 2060. The results are used to derive long …

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Competences in health network management: A textbook for training regional health network managers

Behrens, Yvonne; Macher, Sandra; Kollányi, Zsófia; … - 2022

[Introduction:] Health regions are clusters that unite regional competences around the topic of health (Behrens, Movia 2020). In order to manage health regions successfully, interdisciplinary competences are needed. These competences were identified in the Competences in Health Network...

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Comparative Public Policy Analysis: Shortcomings, Pitfalls, and Avenues for the Future

Wenzelburger, Georg; Jensen, Carsten - In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 63 (2022) 2, pp. 295-313

Comparative public policy is a blooming research area. It also suffers from some curious blind spots. In this paper we discuss four of these: (1) the obsession with covariance, which means that important phenomena are ignored; (2) the lack of agency, which leads to underwhelming explanatory...

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Housing, Health and Happiness

Cattaneo, Matias; Galiani, Sebastian; Gertler, Paul; … - 2008

Despite the importance of housing for people’s well-being, there is little evidence on the causal impact of housing and housing improvement programs on health and welfare. In this paper, we help to fill this gap by investigating the impact of a large-scale effort by the Mexican Government to...

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Saving lives at birth: The impact of home births on infant outcomes

Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; van Ewijk, Reyn - 2012

Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where home births are widespread. To account for endogeneity in...

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Heritability and public policy reconsidered, again

Rietveld, Cornelius A. - 2024

I offer a way out of the Taubman-Goldberger controversy on the public policy (ir)relevance of heritability studies by arguing for a quasi-experimentally controlled comparison of the estimates that these studies provide. If the environments individuals are exposed to are under such control,...

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The returns to education: A review of the empirical macro-economic literature

Sianesi, Barbara; Van Reenen, John - 2002

The idea of positive educational externalities is that the benefits of individually acquired education may not be … still largely divided on whether the stock of education affects the long-run level or growth rate of the economy. A one …-year increase in average education is found to raise the level of output per capita by between 3 and 6 percent according to …

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Anti-discrimination measures in education: A comparative policy analysis

Lenhardt, Amanda; Page, Ella; Sarwar, Moizza Binat; … - 2017

-discrimination measures in education. An analysis of trends in inequalities in human development is used to identify three countries that have … education has been taken up politically. …

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