Using Policy Learning to Inform Health Insurance Targeting: A Case Study of Indonesia [0.03%]
利用政策学习来制定健康保险普惠政策：印度尼西亚的案例研究
Vishalie Shah,Andrew M Jones,Ivana Malenica et al.
Vishalie Shah et al.
This paper demonstrates how optimal policy learning can inform the targeted allocation of Indonesia's two subsidized health insurance programmes. Using national survey data, we develop policy rules aimed at minimizing "catastrophic health e...
Chinese Aid for Transportation Infrastructure and Child Health in Africa [0.03%]
中国援助与非洲的交通运输基础设施和儿童健康
Jia Li
Jia Li
This study investigates the impact of transportation infrastructure financed by Chinese aid on child health in 11 sub-Saharan African countries using Demographic and Health Survey data matched with the precise geospatial features of transpo...
Comprehensive E-Cigarette Flavor Bans and Tobacco Use Among Youth and Adults [0.03%]
全面禁止电子烟口味对青年和成人烟草使用的影响
Henry Saffer,Selen Ozdogan,Michael Grossman et al.
Henry Saffer et al.
The vast majority of youth e-cigarette users consume flavored e-cigarettes, raising concerns from public health advocates that flavors may drive youth initiation and continued use of e-cigarettes. Flavors drew further notice from the public...
The Repeal of Noneconomic Damage Caps and Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums [0.03%]
废除非经济损害赔偿上限与医疗责任保险费率的关系
Yuji Mizushima,Christopher Whaley,Hao Yu
Yuji Mizushima
Noneconomic damage caps are controversial because they seek to balance uncertain benefits through reductions in physician precautionary costs, against uncertain harms to patient welfare. Opposing policy actions at the state-level reflect th...
Hyejin Kim
Hyejin Kim
This paper examines the effect of robots on workplace injury benefits paid in South Korea. Using the administrative data on worker's compensation, I found that the increase in robot exposure contributes to the significant decline in the ave...
Katja Grašič,Adrián Villaseñor,James Gaughan et al.
Katja Grašič et al.
Policymakers increasingly implement pay-for-performance schemes to incentivize quality of care. A key design issue when incentivizing several process measures of quality relates to whether the payment should be linked to the performance on ...
Evaluating OPUF's Role in Health State Valuations: Strengths, Limitations, and Comparative Analysis [0.03%]
OPUF在健康状态评估中的作用评价：优势、局限性及比较分析
Afschin Gandjour
Afschin Gandjour
This article examines the Online Elicitation of Personal Utility Functions (OPUF) method as a novel approach for health state valuation. While OPUF offers a structured, modular alternative to traditional methods, it also presents notable ch...
Carolina Santos,Eduardo Costa,Sara Machado
Carolina Santos
Competition between firms selling similar drugs is often fostered by policymakers as a means to curb pharmaceutical spending. While firms may compete within these specific drug markets, they also repeatedly encounter rival firms in differen...
Is Caring Productive? The Effect of Adult Social Care on Paid Production in England [0.03%]
关爱就是生产力吗？英格兰成人社会关爱对薪酬生产的影响
Francesco Longo,Karl Claxton,Anne Mason et al.
Francesco Longo et al.
Long-term care (LTC) provides essential support to service users and informal carers to improve their quality of life. By improving quality of life, LTC can potentially impact economic growth, for example, it may enable service users of wor...
Espen Bratberg,Tor Helge Holmås,Egil Kjerstad et al.
Espen Bratberg et al.
The association between unemployment and health is well documented, but causality remains unclear. This paper investigates how pre-existing health conditions amplify the effects of adverse labor market shocks. Using variation in local unemp...