Market Size and Innovation: Effects of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Research and Development [0.03%]
市场与创新：Medicare药物福利计划对制药业研发的影响
Margaret E Blume-Kohout,Neeraj Sood
Margaret E Blume-Kohout
Recent evidence suggests that Medicare Part D increased prescription drug use among seniors, and increased pharmaceutical firms' revenues from sales. Previous studies also indicate that increases in market size induce pharmaceutical innovat...
Consumption, Retirement and Social Security: Evaluating the Efficiency of Reform that Encourages Longer Careers [0.03%]
消费、退休和社保：评估促进延迟退休改革的效率
John Laitner,Dan Silverman
John Laitner
This paper proposes and analyzes a Social Security reform in which individuals no longer face the OASI payroll tax after, say, age 54 or a career of 34 years, and their subsequent earnings have no bearing on their benefits. We first estimat...
The Impact of Health Care Reform on Hospital and Preventive Care: Evidence from Massachusetts(☆) [0.03%]
医疗改革对医院和预防护理的影响——来自马萨诸塞州的证据
Jonathan T Kolstad,Amanda E Kowalski
Jonathan T Kolstad
In April 2006, Massachusetts passed legislation aimed at achieving near-universal health insurance coverage. The key features of this legislation were a model for national health reform, passed in March 2010. The reform gives us a novel opp...
Policy Effects in Hyperbolic vs. Exponential Models of Consumption and Retirement [0.03%]
消费和退休的双曲模型与指数模型的政策效应比较
Alan L Gustman,Thomas L Steinmeier
Alan L Gustman
This paper constructs a structural retirement model with hyperbolic preferences and uses it to estimate the effect of several potential Social Security policy changes. Estimated effects of policies are compared using two models, one with hy...
Jacob Glazer,Thomas G McGuire
Jacob Glazer
Changing health insurance coverage for one service may affect use of other insured services. When improving coverage for one service reduces use of another, the savings are referred to as "offset effects." For example, costs of better cover...
AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya [0.03%]
艾滋病治疗与家庭内资源分配：肯尼亚儿童的营养和上学问题
Joshua Graff Zivin,Harsha Thirumurthy,Markus Goldstein
Joshua Graff Zivin
The provision of antiretroviral medications is a central component of the response to HIV/AIDS and consumes substantial public resources from around the world, but little is known about this intervention's impact on the welfare of children ...
Paul Heaton
Paul Heaton
Many jurisdictions have considered relaxing Sunday alcohol sales restrictions, yet such restrictions' effects on public health remain poorly understood. This paper analyzes the effects of legalization of Sunday packaged liquor sales on crim...
The impact of stricter criteria for disability insurance on labor force participation [0.03%]
严格的残障保险认定标准对劳动参与率的影响
Stefan Staubli
Stefan Staubli
This paper studies the effect of a large-scale policy change in the Austrian disability insurance program, which tightened eligibility criteria for men above a certain age. Using administrative data on the universe of Austrian private-secto...
Welfare-Induced Migration at State Borders: New Evidence from Micro-Data [0.03%]
福利诱导下的跨省迁移——微观数据的证据分析
Terra McKinnish
Terra McKinnish
This paper extends and synthesizes the various approaches used in the recent welfare migration literature to both offer the most comprehensive set of tests to date for welfare migration and to also determine the relative importance of short...
Brian A Jacob,Lars Lefgren
Brian A Jacob
In this paper, we estimate the impact of receiving an NIH grant on subsequent publications and citations. Our sample consists of all applications (unsuccessful as well as successful) to the NIH from 1980 to 2000 for standard research grants...