Can the unemployed be trained to care for the elderly? The effects of subsidized training in elderly care [0.03%]
失业者能被培训成为护工吗？老年人护理的补贴性职业培训的效果评估
Christine Dauth,Julia Lang
Christine Dauth
Demographic change has increased the need for elderly care. Training unemployed workers might be one way to increase the supply of elderly care nurses. This study analyzes the effectiveness of subsidized training for unemployed individuals ...
The impact of integration on outpatient chemotherapy use and spending in Medicare [0.03%]
集成对接对医疗保险门诊化疗使用和支出的影响
Jeah Jung,Roger Feldman,Yamini Kalidindi
Jeah Jung
Hospital-physician integration has substantially grown in the United States for the past decade, particularly in certain medical specialties, such as oncology. Yet evidence is scarce on the relation between integration and outpatient specia...
Hana Bataineh,Rose Anne Devlin,Vicky Barham
Hana Bataineh
The objective of this study is to examine the causal effect of health care utilization on unmet health care needs. An IV approach deals with the endogeneity between the use of health care services and unmet health care, using the presence o...
Government doctor absenteeism and its effects on consumer demand in rural north India [0.03%]
北印度农村地区政府医生缺席及对消费者需求的影响
Richard A Iles
Richard A Iles
Government doctor absenteeism from their public posts is a sizable problem across developing economies. The consumer demand estimation for outpatient fever treatment presented in this paper investigates the interrelationship between governm...
Entry regulation and the effect of public reporting: Evidence from Home Health Compare [0.03%]
准入监管与公立报告效果的证据：来自Home Health Compare的证据
Bingxiao Wu,Jeah Jung,Hyunjee Kim et al.
Bingxiao Wu et al.
Economic theory suggests that competition and information are complementary tools for promoting health care quality. The existing empirical literature has documented this effect only in the context of competition among existing firms. Exten...
John Gibson,Bonggeun Kim
John Gibson
We use household survey data to estimate the price elasticity of quantity, and of quality, for tobacco products. In our data, commonly used estimation methods suggest an own-price elasticity of demand of about -1. These methods add together...
Use of instrumental variables for endogenous treatment at the provider level [0.03%]
工具变量在提供者水平上用于内生性治疗的效果评价
R Tamara Konetzka,Fan Yang,Rachel M Werner
R Tamara Konetzka
Health economists are often interested in the effects of provider-level attributes (e.g., nonprofit status or quality rating) on patient outcomes, but estimation is subject to selection bias due to correlation with other omitted provider-le...
User fee exemption and maternal health care utilisation at mission health facilities in Malawi: An application of disequilibrium theory of demand and supply [0.03%]
免收费与马拉维传教士医疗设施的产妇卫生服务利用率——需求和供给不平衡理论的应用研究
Gerald Manthalu
Gerald Manthalu
The literature on health care utilisation has focussed on the interaction of supply and demand factors in determining utilisation. At the aggregate level, studies have modelled the simultaneity of demand and supply, and different methods ha...
Can productivity growth measures identify best performing hospitals? Evidence from the English National Health Service [0.03%]
生产率增长的衡量能否识别出表现最好的医院？来自英国国家医疗服务体系的证据
María José Aragón Aragón,Adriana Castelli,Martin Chalkley et al.
María José Aragón Aragón et al.
Health-care systems around the world face limited financial resources, and England is no exception. The ability of the health-care system in England to operate within its financial resources depends in part on continually increasing its pro...
The effects of e-cigarette minimum legal sale age laws on youth substance use [0.03%]
电子烟最低法定购买年龄法规对青少年物质使用的影响
Dhaval Dave,Bo Feng,Michael F Pesko
Dhaval Dave
We use difference-in-differences models and individual-level data from the national and state Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System from 2005 to 2015 to examine the effects of e-cigarette minimum legal sale age (MLSA) laws on youth cigare...