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Health related quality of life of patients with generalized anxiety disorder
(2008)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Aims: To analyze the health-related quality of life of patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), with respect to the population at large and to a control group. The following goals are addressed: 1.- To determine ...
Attitudes towards blood and living organ donations
(2010)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
We model the decision of whether or not to become a blood/living organ donor. The expected utility for becoming a donor is a function of the degree of altruism, the consumption of goods, the costs of donation, the very ...
Incentives beyond the money: identity and motivational capital in public organizations
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores optimality of contracts and incentives when the principal (public organisation) can undertake investments to change agents’ (public workers) identity. In the model, workers within the organisation can ...
An economic model of behaviour: attitudes towards altruistic blood and organ donations
(2009)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
The aim of this research is to model altruistic blood and organ donors behaviour. First, we make an analysis of the decision of to be or not to be a donor for any individual. We propose a model where individuals compare ...
Motivational capital and incentives in health care organizations
(2014)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores optimal incentive schemes in public health institutions when agents (doctors) are intrinsically motivated. We develop a principal-agent dynamic model with moral hazard in which agents’ intrinsic motivation ...
Incentives when altruism is impure: the case of blood and living organ donations
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
The decision to donate blood and living organs is considered voluntary and altruistic. However, the shortage of donors has opened an interesting debate in recent years, considering offering economic incentives to donors. ...
A pilot inquiry on incentives and intrinsic motivation in health care: the motivational capital explained by doctors
(2014)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Where the contracts are incomplete, the resulting co-ordination problems may be attenuated if workers are intrinsically motivated to do the work. It is established by theoretical and empirical literature that workers within ...
Identity, incentives and motivational capital in public organizations
(2014)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores optimality of contracts and incentives when the principal (public organization) can undertake investments to change agents’ (public workers) identity. In the model, workers within the organization can ...
Using bayesian techniques to build up an inconsistency free health status index
(2004)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Objectives: 1-To obtain a set of values of health states of the EQ-5D based on self-related health VAS using linear and non- linear models Bayesian techniques. 2 - To analyse “logical consistency” in different models and ...
Cost efectiveness analysis of therapeutic strategies for patients with chronic hepatitis C previously non responders to interferon
(2003)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Background: The efficacy of combination therapy in previous non responders to interferon (IFN) monotherapy with chronic hepatitis C is lower than in naïve patients, and there has been no economic evaluation in this population. ...