Topic Archive: Health Economics

Inquiries on the SAAD: Learning the impact of informal caregiving subsidies through the Spanish reforms


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Joan Costa-Font, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, and Cristina Vilaplana Prieto investigate the impact of the Spanish universal caregiving allowance (SAAD) on the supply of informal caregiving and on intergenerational transfers within households.

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Does unemployment lead to a decrease in mental health?


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A new study by Lídia Farré, Francesco Fasani, and Hannes Mueller suggests that an increase in the unemployment rate, caused by the collapse of the Spanish construction sector, led to a drastic increase in mental disorders.

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Industrial regulation and its unintended health consequences


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Christopher Hansman, Jonas Hjort, and Gianmarco Leon explore the unintended health consequences of piecemeal regulations that ignore firm’s responses to new incentives by looking at the case of the 2009 Peruvian industrial fishing sector reform.

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