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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation
Daysal, N. Meltem - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
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Effect of reducing cost sharing for outpatient care on children's inpatient services in Japan
Kato, Hirotaka; Goto, Rei - In: Health Economics Review 7 (2017) 28, pp. 1-10
investigates the effects of reducing cost sharing for outpatient services on hospital admissions by exploring a subsidy policy for … outpatient care subsidy on the volume of inpatient care for 1390 Japanese municipalities was investigated using the generalized … hospital admissions, although this effect varies by region. The subsidy reduces the number of overall admissions in low …
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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation
Daysal, N. Meltem; Hirani, Jonas Cuzulan - In: IZA World of Labor (2021)
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266227
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The Cost of Restricting Abortion Access
Slusky, David - In: Intereconomics 57 (2022) 3, pp. 199-200
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Hypothek in der Wiege: schlechtere Lebenschancen für Krisenkinder
Bozzoli, Carlos - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 8, pp. 15-20
langfristigen Auswirkungen ungünstiger wirtschaftlicher Bedingungen auf Kinder, die während der Krise geboren wurden. Das Ausmaß der …
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The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for public health policies
Anauati, Maria Victoria; Galiani, Sebastian; … - In: Latin American Economic Review 24 (2015) 1, pp. 1-56
moral hazard problems. The paper also focuses on obesity as a case example of an NCD, and emphasizes how lack of knowledge … manifest in obesity problems. …
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Childcare subsidy policy: What it can and cannot accomplish
Tekin, Erdal - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Most public expenditure on childcare in the US is made through a federal program, the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), established as part of landmark welfare reform legislation in 1996. The main goal of the reform was to increase employment and reduce welfare dependence among low-income...
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Improving the Quality of Long-term Care
Mor, Vincent - In: CESifo DICE Report 08 (2010) 2, pp. 35-39
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Der Kinderzuschlag für Geringverdiener – ein Beispiel für mangelhafte Abstimmung im deutschen Transfersystem
Meister, Wolfgang - In: ifo Schnelldienst 59 (2006) 16, pp. 12-20
Neben der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende (Arbeitslosengeld II) wurde in Deutschland zum 1. Januar 2005 auch der Kinderzuschlag eingeführt. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird für eine Reihe von Familientypen die Wirkung dieser neuen Sozialleistung im Zusammenspiel mit dem Wohngeld und in...
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Child Care Subsidies as Social Policy
Blau, David M. - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 4, pp. 3-7
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