Drinking and Self Assessed Welfare: a Statistical Analysis
This is the draft of a paper for 2009 Conference of the New Zealand Statistical Association, 3 September 2009. The presentation was a PowerPoint based on it. It is part of a study of the impact of...
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Letter to National Business Review, 11 September, 2009 Keywords: Health; Dear Editor, In his profile of me (4 September 2009), John Bishop compares my estimate of the cost of alcohol misuse ($16.1b)...
View ArticleThey Say It’s All Your Fault
Spending on health care is rising rapidly – but there’s one thing we could do. Listener: 26 September, 2009. Keywords: Health; We are told that the health-care sector is a drag on the economy. It...
View ArticleFunding the Health Sector
Paper to the ‘Funding in the Health Sector Conference’: 28 September, 2009 Keywords: Health; Why is health funding a problem? The easy answer – the answer popular in the public policy debate – is...
View ArticleTargeting the Minimum Price Of Alcohol
This paper was prepared in October 2009 for the Law Commission when it was reviewing alcohol policy. It is released under the Official Information Act. Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation...
View ArticleThe Benefits and Costs Of Gambling: Some Policy Implications
Commissioned Report: April 2010 Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation; Social Policy; Executive Summary The following is not the usual executive summary. Rather it draws out the policy...
View ArticleTime and Money Spent Gambling and the Relationship with Quality-of-life...
A national study of New Zealanders Keywords: Health; Statistics; Published in the Journal of Gambling Issues 24, July 2010, pp.33-53. Authors: En-Yi Judy Lin; Sally Casswell; Brian Easton; Taisia...
View ArticleTaxing Harmful Drinking
Paper for the launch of “Alcohol No Ordinary Commodity 2 ed”, 19 August, 2010. Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation; Executive Summary: This paper argues that the harm from the consumption of...
View ArticleCosts and Benefits and Alcohol Policy
COSTS AND BENEFITS AND ALCOHOL POLICY A Note for the Symposium on Cost-benefit Analysis on Alcohol Policy Barcelona, 18-19 October 2010 Keywords: Health; This note covers three issues involving...
View ArticleAlcohol and Related Studies (Index)
Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation; The Social Costs of Alcohol Misuse The Regulation of Alcohol
View ArticleGambling Economics (Index)
Keywords: Health; Time and Money Spent Gambling and the Relationship with Quality-of-life Measures: A National Study of New Zealanders (July 2010) Journal of Gambling Issues...
View ArticleSupporting the Disabled
For my evidence see http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1393. Keywords: Health; Social Policy; One of the ways I earn my crust is as a consultant. Although it often involves very satisfying economics, I...
View ArticleDealing with No Ordinary Commodity: Alcohol
Global Alcohol Policy Conference: Thailand, 14-16 February as Honorary Research Fellow at SHORE, Massey University. Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation; Social Policy; The theme of this...
View ArticleThe Economics Of Alcohol
Presentation to the Wellington School of Medicine: 23 March 2012 Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation; This presentation was based upon the paper to the Global Alcohol Policy Conference, 14-16...
View ArticleLong Term Prospects for Health Spending
Wellington School of Medicine Seminar Series: 22 November, 2013. [1] Keywords: Governance; Health; The Public Finance Act requires the Treasury to produce a statement on the Crown’s Long Term Fiscal...
View ArticleDemocratic Governance and Health: Hospitals, Politics and Health Policy in...
Miriam J Laugesen and Robin Gauld; Otago University Press, $40.00. ISBN 978 1 877578 27 4. (Review) New Zealand Books: 5 December, 2013. Keywords: Health; I have long puzzled over the point of...
View ArticleECONOMIC EVALUATION OF FASD: AN EXAMPLE
Health Promotion Hui: Cancer Society of New Zealand, 23 October, 2014 Keywords: Health; I have been asked to talk about how economic evaluation is used to determine the social costs of diseases and...
View ArticleWHAT IS THE FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER?
Every year around 600 New Zealanders are born with a horrible condition because their mothers drank while they were pregnant. Pundit: 10 November, 2014 Keywords: Health; The terms Fetal Alcohol...
View ArticleTHE COST OF DEMANDING MORE HEALTH CARE
As times goes on the government will spend more on healthcare. That means higher taxes. Is there an alternative? Pundit: 10 November, 2014. Keywords: Health; I was on the Treasury external panel which...
View ArticlePROLONGATION OF LIFE AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE.
How economists think about valuing life when allocating resources for healthcare purposes. Pundit: 28 November, 2014 Keywords: Health; A couple of comments to an earlier column asked questions about...
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