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Now showing items 1189-1208 of 1940
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(Blackwell, 2001-12)OBJECTIVE: To compare expenditures for medical care in a closed-panel gatekeeper HMO and an open-panel point-of-service (POS) plan that share the same provider network. DATA SOURCE/STUDY SETTING: The two study HMOs are ...
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(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) / U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003)The clinically detailed risk information system for cost (CD-RISC) contains definitions for several hundred severity-adjusted conditions that can be used to predict future health care costs. We develop a prospective Medicare ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2011-11)This paper examines the effect that experiencing corruption has on an individual’s mental health using microeconomic data from the Afrobarometer surveys. The results show a statistically significant and economically ...
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(Irish Medical Association, 1970)
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(Routledge (Taylor and Francis), 2012-06)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-07-11)We introduce an index of trade policy restrictiveness defined as the uniform tariff which maintains the same trade volume as a given tariff/quota structure. Our index overcomes the problems of the trade-weighted average ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-05)Thresholds defined on the level and change in the HHI (Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index) applied to market shares seem to be the main instrument to select notified mergers for investigation in both the EU and US. We question ...
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(MIT Press Journals - Massachusets Institute, 2006)Given that brands (products) are location specific in terms of coverage of retail stores, we allow consumers to have preferences over location and products to carry distribution costs, alongside preferences and costs over ...
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(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1991)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-02)This paper reviews methods for studying dominance and inequality in health economics. It concentrates on “pure inequality” as opposed to inequality which is related to income or some other measure of household resources. ...
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(Economic and Social Studies, 1976)
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(Pavilion, 2006-10)
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(Oxford University Press, 2005)
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-08)This paper uses novel measures of individual differences that produce new insights about student inputs into the (higher) education production function. The inputs examined are lecture attendance and additional study-hours. ...
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(ACM, 2011-02-10)Migrants, having left their home society and community, often depend on electronic modes of communication to maintain contacts with distant friends and relations. Their practices illustrate the affordances provided by ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1996-01)
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(Cambridge University Press, 1997-04)Mass emigration was one key feature of the Great Irish Famine which distinguishes it from today's famines. By bringing famine victims to overseas food supplies, it undoubtedly saved many lives. Poverty traps prevented those ...
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(Springer, 1976-12)
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(Elsevier Science, 2009-11)We study how the possibility of migration changes the composition of human capital in sending countries, and how this affects development. In our model, growth is driven by productivity growth, which occurs via imitation ...
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(Irish Economic Association, 2007)
Now showing items 1189-1208 of 1940