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Hyperopia and frugality: Different motivational drivers and yet similar effects on consumer spending
(Elsevier Inc., 2019)
The effects of hyperopia and frugality on spending have not been directly compared. Moreover, previous research on hyperopia has focused on the avoidance of luxury spending, rather than spending on routine consumer goods. ...
Out-of-pocket health spending: the case of Chile, 1997 and 2007
(PAN AMER HEALTH ORGANIZATION, 2012)
Objective. Determine the impact, characteristics, and changes in out-of-pocket health spending of households in Chile in 1997 and 2007.
Global investments in pandemic preparedness and COVID-19: development assistance and domestic spending on health between 1990 and 2026
(Elsevier, 2023)
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted gaps in health surveillance systems, disease prevention, and treatment globally. Among the many factors that might have led to these gaps is the issue of the financing of ...
Revising Social Contracts: Social Spending in Latin America, East Asia, and the Former Socialist Countries, 1980-2000
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política, 2004)
Social spending and elections: an examination of Latin American third wave democracies, 1980-2008
(2011-08)
During the period in which Latin America underwent the most lasting and widespread wave of democratization, we test whether governments targeted increases in social spending to coincide with presidential elections in a ...
The Earning and Spending Habits of Male Sex Workers in Lima, Peru
(SAGE Publications, 2018)
Over the past decade, data have identified male sex work as a potentially viable economic decision; despite this, male sex workers (MSWs) continue to be perceived as group with access to few assets and resources. Using ...
Is there a Common Path that could have Conditioned the Degree of Welfare State Development in Latin America and the Caribbean?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2017)
Opportunistic political cycles and social spending: an examination of transition and consolidated democracies in Latin America
(2009)
In this paper, we show that education, health and social security expenditures did not increase during elections. Based on a panel of fifteen Latin American democracies from 1973 to 2000, we show that there are important ...
Fiscal decentralization and local spending on environmental management: An exploratory study of the municipalities in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo
(Univ Brasilia, Bus Adm Dept, 2016-09-01)
This article presents a longitudinal analysis of spending for environmental management by the 645 municipalities of the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo during the period covering 2005-2014, seeking to systematize answers about ...