Energy efficiency, housing, equity and health

Housing Equity Withdrawal

The increase in housing prices in recent years has contributed to rising household wealth and has helped to underpin continued strength in consumption spending. One important aspect of this process is that rising housing prices, combined with other factors such as lower interest rates and financial innovation, have increased the capacity of households to borrow. A feature of the past few years ...

Unlocking Housing Equity in Japan

Much prior literature on asset patterns among the elderly has mostly overlooked housing wealth as a determinant of retiree wealth, particularly in the Japanese context. Yet releasing equity in housing may be a natural mechanism to boost consumption, reduce public pension liability, and mitigate the demand for long-term care facilities in Japan. Our study evaluates what might be needed to implem...

Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity

Health is perceived as most precious good, and people feel its vulnerability. Societies have been trying to absorb, ameliorate or compensate consequences and health risks with varying emphasis and varying success. Due to the uniqueness of good health to a persons’ ability to live the life he or she wants, health care and performance of health care systems are under critical observation. In this...

Health mobility: implications for efficiency and equity in priority setting

All remaining errors are the authors " liability. There are no conflicts of interest. Abstract Health mobility is a statistical measure of inter-temporal fluctuations in health of a group of individuals. Increased availability of panel data has led to a number of studies which analyse and compare health mobility across subgroups. Mobility can differ systematically across patient subgroups, even...

Externalities, Efficiency and Equity