Unintended Consequences of Life-Saving Pharmaceutical Innovations: How HAART Led to the Resurgence of Syphilis [0.03%]
David Beheshti,Scott Cunningham,Nir Eilam
David Beheshti
Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection that can lead to serious health complications, was almost eliminated in the United States by 2000. But since then, its incidence began to increase, recently reaching a 60-year peak. We suggest that...
Effect of Austerity Measures on Infant Mortality: Evidence From Greece [0.03%]
财政紧缩对婴儿死亡率的影响——来自希腊的证据
Robert J Kolesar,Rok Spruk
Robert J Kolesar
Governments frequently adopt austerity policies when facing economic crises, yet their long-term consequences for population health remain incompletely understood. This paper examines the impact of large-scale fiscal austerity on infant mor...
Kids Give You Headaches? Universal Prekindergarten and Maternal Prescriptions for Pain-Relief and Hormone Medications [0.03%]
孩子让你头疼？普及学前教育与母亲止痛和荷尔蒙药物的处方率
Kai Hong,Kacie L Dragan,Sherry Glied
Kai Hong
High-quality prekindergarten (pre-K) programs can promote school readiness and generate lifetime benefits. However, little is known about how pre-K programs affect mothers. We examine the effects of New York City's universal pre-K program (...
How do US Adults Who Vape Choose Among Different E-Cigarette (EC) Models and Cigarettes in Response to Prices and Taxes [0.03%]
美国使用电子烟的成年人如何选择不同的电子烟型号以及传统香烟以回应价格和税收政策的影响分析
Shaoying Ma,Sooa Ahn,Hojin Park et al.
Shaoying Ma et al.
States continue to impose E-Cigarette (EC) taxes without clear evidence of the cross-price elasticities between multiple EC types and between ECs and cigarettes. Moreover, existing literature focused on EC sales or prevalence outcomes inste...
Long-Term Care Insurance and Catastrophic Health Spending at the End of Life Among Older Adults: Evidence From China [0.03%]
长期护理保险与中国老年人临终前的健康灾难性支出：来自中国的证据
Zhenyu Zhu,Chen Bai
Zhenyu Zhu
End-of-life (EOL) health spending imposes catastrophic financial burdens on elderly households, pushing them into poverty without corresponding improvements in health outcomes. Leveraging the quasi-experiment of China's public long-term car...
H E Frech rd,Mark V Pauly,William S Comanor et al.
H E Frech rd et al.
This paper examines the international variation in the prices of branded pharmaceuticals. We consider short-run profits, or quasi-rents, as representing each country's contribution toward the global public good of therapeutic information em...
Sara Markowitz,Katie Leinenbach
Sara Markowitz
Suicide rates among older adults have been rising over time in the United States. At the same time, more individuals have been suffering with chronic pain and illness, which are often underlying risk factors for suicide. As self-medication ...
Domestic and International Health Expenditure and Health and Healthcare Use: Evidence From Mozambique [0.03%]
莫桑比克国内和国际卫生支出及健康与医疗服务的证据
Eliana Chavarría-Pino,Laura Anselmi,Matt Sutton et al.
Eliana Chavarría-Pino et al.
Evidence on the relationship between public health expenditure and health is mixed and particularly scarce for low-income countries. Existing studies overlook the subnational distribution of expenditure and rarely distinguish between source...
Improving Healthcare Utilization in Retired Self-Employed Workers: Evidence From an Experiment in France [0.03%]
法国退休自雇人士的医疗保健利用情况改善研究：一项实验的证据
Estelle Augé,Nicolas Sirven
Estelle Augé
This study examines the impact of a program designed to address the non-take-up of social benefits on healthcare utilization among targeted at-risk formerly self-employed workers in France. We test two main hypotheses: first, that sending a...
Further Findings on the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption [0.03%]
酒精消费代际传递的进一步研究发现
Sergey Alexeev
Sergey Alexeev
Using 43,817 parent-child pairs from 23 waves of the HILDA Survey, I study the intergenerational transmission of alcohol use within a rational model of trait transmission. Transmission is predominantly same-sex: the mother-daughter elastici...