Brandyn F Churchill,Bijesh Gyawali,Joseph J Sabia
Brandyn F Churchill
Appearance-based bullying is common among teenagers and may inflict substantial psychological harm on its victims. Overweight and obese students are both more likely to be bullied at school and more likely to engage in suicidal behaviors th...
Maria José Gil-Moltó,Arne Risa Hole,Henrik Andersson et al.
Maria José Gil-Moltó et al.
Recent research has found that health risk values elicited using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) may be inadequately sensitive to the magnitude of the risk reduction, a phenomenon referred to as insensitivity to scope. This paper investi...
Adolescent Mental Health: Impact of Introducing Earlier Compulsory School Grades [0.03%]
青少年心理健康：引入更早的义务年级教育的影响
Anna Linder,Ulf-G Gerdtham,Gawain Heckley
Anna Linder
We examine how the earlier introduction of compulsory school grades affects the likelihood of receiving a mental disorder diagnosis among Swedish adolescents. We exploit a school reform that shifted the introduction of grades from grade 8 t...
Sick of Robots-Heterogeneous Effects of Industrial Robots on Sickness Absence [0.03%]
机器人泛滥成灾：工业机器人对请病假行为的异质性影响
Janis Umblijs,Kjersti Misje Østbakken
Janis Umblijs
This paper studies how the introduction of industrial robots affects sickness absence among workers in the manufacturing sector in Norway. We use data on the imports of industrial robots at the firm level, combined with employee-firm linked...
Education and Mental Health in Young Adulthood: New Evidence From Genetic Markers [0.03%]
遗传标志物提供的新证据：教育、心理卫生与青年期发展之间的关系
Alex Xingbang Weng
Alex Xingbang Weng
This paper presents new evidence on the impact of education on depression in young adults. Utilizing data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, I employ family fixed-effect regressions and an instrumental varia...
The Citizens' Distributional Preferences for Health Care Resource Allocations: The Non-Negligible Role of Option Value [0.03%]
民众的医疗卫生资源配置分配偏好：选项价值不可忽视的作用
Lise Desireé Hansen,Trine Kjær,Dorte Gyrd-Hansen
Lise Desireé Hansen
The stated preference literature on equity in health aims to enhance our understanding of the public's preferences for allocation of health resources to promote fairness and justice in the distribution of healthcare. This paper explores how...
Income and Health Care Consumption: Evidence From Mortgage Payment Shocks [0.03%]
收入与医疗卫生消费：来自抵押贷款支付冲击的证据
Hong Lee,Deokrye Baek,Joseph R Mason
Hong Lee
During the Great Recession, monetary stimulus had asymmetric impacts on mortgages with different interest rate structures, leading to a significant and unexpected reduction in mortgage payments for adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) borrowers, ...
Social Comparisons and Adolescent Body Misperception: Evidence From School Entry Cutoffs [0.03%]
基于学龄门槛的青少年体型认知偏差的社会比较证据
Christopher S Carpenter,Brandyn F Churchill
Christopher S Carpenter
We provide novel evidence on the role of social comparisons in shaping adolescent body misperception. Using an instrumental variables approach leveraging variation in relative age generated by school entry cutoff months and data from the He...
Deploying Differential Distance as an Instrumental Variable: Alternative Forms, Estimators, and Specifications [0.03%]
差分距离作为工具变量的应用、替代形式、估计方法和规范指定
Donghoon Lee,Anirban Basu
Donghoon Lee
Despite well-established econometric theory, less attention is paid to the type of treatment effects being estimated using alternate instrumental variable (IV) approaches and the support for IV in the health literature. We illustrate this c...
Tomson Ogwang,Germano Mwabu
Tomson Ogwang
In this paper, we propose a simple Watts-type measure of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) which is an adaptation of the classic Watts poverty measure. The appeal of the proposed measure stems from the fact that it is both additively de...