David M Cutler,Kaushik Ghosh,Kassandra L Messer et al.
David M Cutler et al.
This paper develops a satellite account for the US health sector and measures productivity growth in health care for the elderly population between 1999 and 2012. We measure the change in medical spending and health outcomes for a comprehen...
Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency [0.03%]
通向成功的起点方案：对人力资本和经济自足的长期影响
Martha J Bailey,Shuqiao Sun,Brenden Timpe
Martha J Bailey
This paper evaluates the long-run effects of Head Start using large-scale, restricted administrative data. Using the county rollout of Head Start between 1965 and 1980 and age-eligibility cutoffs for school entry, we find that Head Start ge...
Victoria R Marone,Adrienne Sabety
Victoria R Marone
We study the welfare effects of offering choice over coverage levels-"vertical choice"-in regulated health insurance markets. We emphasize that heterogeneity in efficient coverage level is not sufficient to motivate choice. When premiums ca...
Amy Finkelstein,Matthew Gentzkow,Heidi Williams
Amy Finkelstein
We estimate the effect of current location on elderly mortality by analyzing outcomes of movers in the Medicare population. We control for movers' origin locations as well as a rich vector of pre-move health measures. We also develop a nove...
Using Aggregated Relational Data to Feasibly Identify Network Structure without Network Data [0.03%]
使用聚合关系数据在没有网络数据的情况下识别网络结构的可能性
Emily Breza,Arun G Chandrasekhar,Tyler H McCormick et al.
Emily Breza et al.
Social network data are often prohibitively expensive to collect, limiting empirical network research. We propose an inexpensive and feasible strategy for network elicitation using Aggregated Relational Data (ARD): responses to questions of...
Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina [0.03%]
你的寿命真的受居住地影响吗？——来自卡特里娜飓风的证据
Tatyana Deryugina,David Molitor
Tatyana Deryugina
We follow Medicare cohorts to estimate Hurricane Katrina's long-run mortality effects on victims initially living in New Orleans. Including the initial shock, the hurricane improved eight-year survival by 2.07 percentage points. Migration t...
Liran Einav,Amy Finkelstein,Tamar Oostrom et al.
Liran Einav et al.
We analyze selection into screening in the context of recommendations that breast cancer screening start at age 40. Combining medical claims with a clinical oncology model, we document that compliers with the recommendation are less likely ...
The Mortality and Medical Costs of Air Pollution: Evidence from Changes in Wind Direction [0.03%]
air pollution的死亡率和医疗费用：来自风向变化的证据
Tatyana Deryugina,Garth Heutel,Nolan H Miller et al.
Tatyana Deryugina et al.
We estimate the causal effects of acute fine particulate matter exposure on mortality, health care use, and medical costs among the US elderly using Medicare data. We instrument for air pollution using changes in local wind direction and de...
Pierre Azoulay,Christian Fons-Rosen,Joshua S Graff Zivin
Pierre Azoulay
We examine how the premature death of eminent life scientists alters the vitality of their fields. While the flow of articles by collaborators into affected fields decreases after the death of a star scientist, the flow of articles by non-c...
University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in STEM Fields: Evidence from California [0.03%]
加州高校STEM专业少数族裔毕业生的差异性分析
Peter Arcidiacono,Esteban M Aucejo,V Joseph Hotz
Peter Arcidiacono
We examine differences in minority science graduation rates among University of California campuses when racial preferences were in place. Less prepared minorities at higher ranked campuses had lower persistence rates in science and took lo...