OBJECTIVE To estimate the impact of the insurance expansion in 2006 on use of knee and hip replacement procedures by race/ethnicity, area income, and the use of hospitals that predominantly serve poor people ("safety net hospitals"). DESIGN Quasi-experimental difference in differences study examining change after reform in the share of procedures performed in safety net hospitals by race/ethn...

Net trading income is an important but volatile source of for many euro area banks, highly sensitive to changes in financial market conditions. Using a representative sample European we study the distribution net (normalized by total assets) conditional key macro-financial risk factors. To map linkages with factors and capture non-linear effects, implement dynamic fixed effects quantile model u...

The redistributive effects of a social insurance programme are determined by how the programme is paid for-who pays and how much do they pay?-and how the benefits are distributed. As a result, the redistributive effects of a social health insurance programme should be evaluated on the basis of its net benefit-the difference between benefits and payment. Among the rich body of empirical analysis...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, tarım arazilerinin değerinin belirlenmesinde kullanılan pazar değeri yöntemi ile gelirlerin kapitalizasyonu yönteminin incelenmesidir. Gelirlerin yöntemi, gelecekte elde edilecek değer biçme anına indirgenmesi olarak ifade edilmekte ve araziden edilen net geliri baz almaktadır. Ancak, bu yöntemin uygulanabilmesi için değerlerinden hareketle bölgeye, arazi niteliğine işletme...

A significant amount of non-compliance with the personal income tax is due to individuals who have not filed a tax return and so who are not “in the system”. We use experimental laboratory methods to examine the effect of positive inducements for filing a tax return. Our design captures the essential features of a voluntary income reporting and tax assessment system: human participants earn inc...

The present paper gives an overview of the theory of green national accounting. Three purposes of green national accounting (measurement of welfare equivalent income, sustainable income, or net social profit) and two measures (Green NNP and wealth equivalent income) are considered. Under the assumption of no exogenous technological progress, Green NNP is shown to equal wealth equivalent income ...

On January 1, 2000, Medicare extended the coverage of immunosuppression medications from 3 years to life for elderly and disabled kidney transplant recipients. This research estimates the impact of extending this lifetime coverage to all kidney transplant recipients on Medicare's cash flows. The study finds that extending coverage to all kidney transplant recipients would have increased Medicar...