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The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act intensified debates over the role of government in the distribution of healthcare. A nationally-representative sample of Americans reported their estimated and ideal distributions of healthcare (unmet need for prescription medications) and...
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The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most … discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The empirical sections cover the literature on equity in health care … financing (progressivity and horizontal equity of health care financing arrangements), equity in health care delivery …
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We discuss the conceptual foundations of measuring (in)equity in health and health care. After an overview of the … various ethical views. We emphasize that horizontal and vertical equity are intricately linked to each other. We then argue …
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This review synthesizes economics-oriented research in environmental justice with a focus on the last decade. We first …
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This Review discusses three developments in equity jurisprudence drawn from significant recent decisions of the Privy …
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In this essay, I examine the role that equity historically has played in moderating the outcomes of determinate legal … rules in particular cases. The advantage of traditional equity was that its role within the legal system was subordinate … management of equity …
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Starting from Schelling (1960), several game theorists have conjectured that payoff equity might facilitate … this line, we propose a selection principle called Equity (EQ), which selects the equilibrium in pure strategies minimizing …-subjects experimental design, furthermore, we study the relative performance of the equity principle in six simple 2x2 coordination games …
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evaluations of the justice of their personal earnings. In the first step we derive three criteria used by individuals to evaluate … the fairness or justice of their personal earnings: compensation for services rendered, coverage of basic needs, and the … gender research to explain why men's and women's evaluations of justice are determined to a considerable degree by the …
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