By merging administrative data on public finances of all municipalities in Germany with individual from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we explore whether local expenditures sports facilities influences labor market outcomes. Our identification strategy follows a selection-on-observables approach and exploits panel structure covering 12 years between 2001 2012. The results our matching estimat...

Our study examines the impact of the capital prospective payment system (CPPS), implemented by Medicare in 1991, on capital expenditures and cost-e€ective behavior of non-proprietary hospitals. As noted in the paper, we use audited ®nancial statement data for a large national sample of hospitals. Univariate analyses demonstrate a statistically signi®cant decline in capital expenditures in the y...

Child labor is regarded as an ambiguous and controversial challenge encountered in majority of countries across the world. Given the incidence and prevalence of this phenomenon in Iran and the importance of household health expenditures, this study was done to evaluate the impact of children’s entry into labor market on household health expenditures. This study was conducted on urban households...

Due to high-priced specialty drugs, pharmaceutical expenditures in the Austrian outpatient sector have recently increased considerably. This also contributed to the fact that a mere 0.4% of prescriptions in 2014 were responsible for almost 26% of the total costs. While outpatient drug expenditures increased significantly from 2006 to 2008, only a moderate rise occurred from 2009 to 2013. Howeve...

A special study conducted by public assistance agencies in 20 States in 1946 gave answers for thefirst time to questions about the types and amount of medical services the agencies were able to provide to assistance recipients and the costs of the various services. An article in the Bulletin for June 1952 discussed medical services for aged recipients. This article deals with the costs of such ...

Growth in overall real welfare expenditures per capita has been a noted trend in the last thirty years in the U.S. The influence of demographic forces in contributing to this growth is considered in this paper. It is found that the growth of female-headed families is the strongest and dominant force in contributing to trends in real AFDC expenditures per capita over the long run. The influence ...

The evaluation of public expenditures is a central concern of development economics-and a concern highlighted by the increasingly stringent budget constraints in both developing and developed countries. This task has also become increasingly difficult as governments have moved their focus away from providing private, tradable, goods towards public goods that are provided either without charge, ...