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Replication Data and Code for: Build it and they will come: Volunteer Opportunities and Volunteering
No full textThe data and programs replicate tables and figures from "Build it and they will come: Volunteer Opportunities and Volunteering," by Deri Armstrong, Devlin, and Seifi. Please see the ReadMe file for additional details
The Impact of Insurance on Dental and Physician Visits in Ontario
No full textThis paper is an empirical study of the influence of dental insurance and prescription insurance on the probability and number of dental and physician visits using the Canadian Health Survey, Cycle 3.1 (2005). My findings confirm that insurance matters,
Estimating Smoking Attributable Health Care Costs using the Canadian Community Health Survey (2012)
No full textTobacco consumption is the leading preventable cause of death in Canada and most countries in the world. In addition to mortality and the cost of premature deaths, studies show that smoking imposes an economic burden on the health care system. Using an econometrics approach, this study examines the hypothesis that the health care utilization associated with smoking is economically meaningful and concludes that 12.5 percent of physician visits and 15.5 percent of hospital stays in Canada in 2012 are attributable to smoking, which translates into more than $14 billion dollars of health care expenditures. Thus, even though smoking rates have dropped in the recent years (from about 50 percent in 1965 to approximately 20 percent in 2012), the costs of smoking on the health care system are still high
The Effect of Free Trade Agreements on Canadian Bilateral Aid Donations
No full textIn this paper I expand work done by de Silva (2002) in order to determine the effects of Free Trade Agreements between Canada and other nations on Canadian bilateral aid donations. A panel data set is created and analyzed in order to capture both time and cross sectional effects. I conclude that Free Trade Agreements with Canada result in an increase in bilateral aid donations from Canada of between 0.76% - 1.31
The problem of Predatory pricing: The Air Canada Case
No full textSince the 1960s, a great deal has been written about predatory price cutting, and continuing right up to the present, cost-based rules for deciding whether prices are predatory have been evolving in the courts. The subject of predatory pricing has been a
Gains from Horizontal Mergers in the Banking Industry: Evidence from Stock Market Reactions
No full textPrescription Drug Insurance and Demand for Physician Services: Evidence from Ontario and New Brunswick
No full textThis paper examines the marginal impact of supplemental prescription drug cover-\ud
age on demand for physician services within a publicly funded health care system. The data comes from three cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey for Ontario and New Brunswick. The probability of at least one consultation per year is estimated using a probit model. Then users of health care services are divided into high and low frequency latent classes, and the number of consultations per year is estimated using a negative binomial model. This paper is the first to consider the impact by type of insurance (government-provided, employer-provided, or privately purchased) separately for family doctors and specialists for both individuals under 65 and seniors. These results confi rm that having supplemental insurance increases the likelihood of a visit to both a family doctor and a specialist. This paper also finds that the number of consultations with family doctors and specialists are sensitive to the type of insurance, not only the presence of insurance. In general, the greatest impacts can be seen from specialist visits and among low frequency latent class users
Gains from Horizontal Mergers in the Banking Industry: Evidence from Stock Market Reactions
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