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Health Literacy in Latvia: A Public Health Challenge Shaped by Socio-economic Inequality
Latvia faces a serious health literacy challenge: many adults struggle to access, understand, evaluate, and apply health…
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Estimating Tax Evasion in Europe: Direct vs. Indirect Survey Methods
How can societies accurately gauge the share of the workforce engaged in the shadow economy when direct questions inspir…
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How the Combination of Income and the Quality of Local Conditions Affects Well-being in Old Age
Contemporaneous income and the quality of local living conditions have both received recognition in the literature as im…
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Public Healthcare Expenditures in Transition Countries: Does Government Spending Respond to Public Preferences?
The transition from centrally planned to free-market economies in 1989 initiated a period of social and economic upheava…
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COVID-19 | The Case of Georgia
Introduction Georgia has close to 4 million inhabitants. It borders Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, which are al…
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Buyer Competence and Procurement Renegotiations
This brief deals with the extent to which a more competent public bureaucracy can contribute to better economic outcomes…
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The Georgian Tax Lottery of 2012 – A Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation
This policy brief is based on preliminary findings of research that assesses the 2012 Georgian Tax Lottery by Larsen et…
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Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Sizeable Child Subsidy: Evidence from Russia
How to design the optimal pro-natalist policy is an important open question for policymakers around the world. Our paper…
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Resident Altruism and Local Public Goods
This policy brief discusses residents’ voluntary payments for local public goods in Russian municipalities in a historic…
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