Rationing by waiting lists: an empirical investigation
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Models of supply and demand for the waiting time for elective surgery provided by the UK National Health Service are presented and analyzed. Systems of waiting lists or waiting times are used by governments as rationing mechanisms. The demand and supply models were evaluated using 4460 observations correlated to the number of elective surgery episodes recorded in 1991-92. The results suggest that there was low elasticity of demand with regard to waiting time, implying that increased expenditures in medical resources could lessen waiting time without resulting in higher utilization.
Publication Name: The Journal of Public Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0047-2727
Year: 1999
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Migration between home country and diaspora: an economic analysis
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A model is proposed to study the effect of the distribution of a population between a home country and a foreign nation or diaspora, which is evaluated using sequential decision-making concerning migration at the individual level. An ineffective distribution between home country and diaspora is observed due to fiscal externalities that occur in the per-capita tax burdens, such as defense spending, which rely on the size of domestic population. Results indicate that immigration to the home country is desirable to populations of both diaspora and home country.
Publication Name: The Journal of Public Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0047-2727
Year: 1997
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Dynamic epidemiology and the market for vaccinations
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The externalities arising from individual attitude towards vaccinations are examined using static and dynamic models. No externality is found in an explicitly dynamic epidemic model that uses a continuous-time framework. Contrasting results are derived from a static model that is diagrammatically presented using left-right diagrams. This difference is offset by considering the variability of static schedules over time.
Publication Name: The Journal of Public Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0047-2727
Year: 1997
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