Kabir Dasgupta,Keshar Ghimire
Kabir Dasgupta
Previous research documents a strong association between gambling and substance use, suggesting that these seemingly distinct behaviors may share similar environmental, neurobiological, and genetic causes. However, there is a dearth of cred...
Accounting for the Opportunity Cost of Children's Time in Economic Evaluation: Challenges and Frequently Asked Questions [0.03%]
关于儿童时间机会成本的经济评价：挑战与常见问题
Lazaros Andronis,Cameron Morgan,Cam Donaldson et al.
Lazaros Andronis et al.
Economic evaluations carried out from a societal perspective ought to account for the opportunity cost of a range of resources, including those committed by care recipients. People's time is such a resource: it is limited, valuable and it h...
The Mental Health Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health and Social Care Workers [0.03%]
新冠肺炎大流行对医疗和社会照护人员的心理健康的影响
Victoria Serra-Sastre,Jaime Pinilla,Wasana Kalansooriya
Victoria Serra-Sastre
The COVID-19 pandemic placed exceptional strain on essential services, raising urgent concerns about the mental well-being of workers in critical sectors. This study examines the short- and medium-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on th...
Anuj Gangopadhyaya,Bowen Garrett
Anuj Gangopadhyaya
Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment more than doubled from 2013 to 2023, raising concerns about risk selection, spending, and the continued use of traditional Medicare (TM) spending as a benchmark for MA payment. This study examines trends i...
Competing Demographic Drivers of Hospital Expenditures: Coexistence of the Red Herring and the Steepening Effects [0.03%]
相互竞争的住院费用人口因素：红鲱鱼效应与梯度效应并存
Malene Kallestrup-Lamb,Alexander O K Marin,Jes Søgaard
Malene Kallestrup-Lamb
The fiscal sustainability of healthcare systems is increasingly strained by aging populations with two competing hypotheses dominating the literature. The Red Herring Hypothesis suggests that healthcare expenditures are driven more by proxi...
David Mushinski,Sammy Zahran
David Mushinski
Physician adoption of new information about a medical procedure can affect patient outcomes. Medical malpractice law may influence physician use of such information. We analyze how physician reactions to information shocks regarding vaginal...
Guidance or Misdirection? Unpacking the Role of Feedback in Health Preference Assessments [0.03%]
指导还是误导？剖析反馈在健康偏好评估中的作用
Mesfin G Genie,Shelby D Reed,Semra Ozdemir
Mesfin G Genie
This study investigated the impact of providing feedback to respondents on a dominance-structured choice task on subsequent choice behavior in a discrete choice experiment (DCE). The DCE was conducted among 626 patients with heart failure. ...
The Impact of TRAP Laws on the Supply of Maternal Healthcare Providers [0.03%]
有关TRAP法律对妇产科医生供给影响的研究
Pinka Chatterji,Chun-Yu Ho,Quan Qi
Pinka Chatterji
This paper examines the impact of Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws on the supply and composition of maternal healthcare providers, particularly obstetrician-gynecologists (OB/GYNs). We exploit the staggered enactment of...
Paying for Health Gains Using Patient Reported Outcome Measures [0.03%]
基于患者报告结局的卫生技术评估中的成本测算方法学挑战与应对措施研究进展
Luigi Siciliani,James Gaughan,Nils Gutacker et al.
Luigi Siciliani et al.
Payments to healthcare providers are often based on the number of patients with a particular diagnosis or treatment with well known limitations. Payment based on health outcomes, a form of pay-for-performance, has long been advocated as a p...
The Financial and Behavioral Effects of Free Prescription Drugs: Evidence From a Policy Discontinuity in Poland [0.03%]
波兰免费处方药政策的金融和行为效应证据
Gosia Majewska,Krzysztof Zaremba
Gosia Majewska
We examine whether a universal drug subsidy for seniors in Poland provided effective financial protection and whether it induced ex ante moral hazard. The policy eliminated out-of-pocket costs for prescription medications while leaving all ...