The Effects of Medical and Recreational Cannabis Laws on Prescription Drug Claims in Commercial Group Insurance Markets [0.03%]
医用和娱乐性大麻合法化对商业团体保险市场处方药索赔的影响
Amanda C Cook,E Tice Sirmans,Rhet A Smith
Amanda C Cook
Initially introduced as an alternative medical treatment, cannabis has been conditionally legalized in most U.S. states. Using prescription drug claims as reported by small and large group insurers in the NAIC Supplemental Health Care Exhib...
Clear Waters, Bright Futures: Do Low-Cost Information Interventions Increase Health Preventive Behaviors [0.03%]
清水蓝天，美好未来：低成本的信息介入能否增加健康预防行为？
Rafi Amir-Ud-Din,Muhammad Khan,Zahra Murad et al.
Rafi Amir-Ud-Din et al.
Contaminated drinking water poses a significant, long-term health challenge in developing countries. With the aim of shedding light on the most effective presentation of this information in awareness campaigns, we run a randomized control t...
Thomas A Hegland
Thomas A Hegland
Does expanding access to mental healthcare reduce crime rates? Prior research indicates that targeted psychological treatment programs prevent criminal behavior, but whether expanding access to treatment prevents crime depends on who seeks ...
Public Long-Term Care Insurance and Retirement Intentions of Urban Workers: Evidence From China [0.03%]
城镇职工长期护理保险对退休意愿的影响——基于中国经合组织的证据分析
Tianli Yang,Zhong Zhao
Tianli Yang
While many studies examine the effects of long-term care insurance (LTCI) on labor supply and retirement behaviors, its effect on retirement intentions-offering certain advantages over actual behaviors-remains unclear. This study applies a ...
Children's Education and Parental Healthcare Utilization: The Roles of Knowledge Transfer and Financial Support [0.03%]
儿童教育与父母医疗保健利用：知识转移和经济支持的作用
Lei Lei,Lingyan Hu,Arthur van Soest et al.
Lei Lei et al.
Healthcare utilization among older people in developing countries is typically far below the level considered adequate in developed countries. This study investigates the effect of children's education on parental healthcare utilization in ...
Norma B Coe,Chuxuan Sun,Courtney H Van Houtven et al.
Norma B Coe et al.
Long-term services in the home are predominately provided by family or friends, with a growing proportion of individuals receiving formal care, or paid care by a professional, or a combination of both. However, the relative benefits to the ...
Sneha Lamba,Robert Moffitt
Sneha Lamba
A significant literature has documented trend increases in pain among Americans over the last 2 or 3 decades. There is no consensus on the reason for the trend, with no single explanation seeming to work well. We show that, rather than resu...
Grace E Arnold,Mitchell Blaine Priestley
Grace E Arnold
We study the impact of gun-purchase waiting periods on suicide rates using county-level mortality data from 1991-2019. We find that waiting periods are associated with a reduction in both firearm and overall suicide rates of approximately 5...
Inaki Permanyer,Suman Seth,Gaston Yalonetzky
Inaki Permanyer
Many health indicators are bounded, that is, their values lie between a lower and an upper bound. Inequality measurement with bounded variables faces two normative challenges well-known in the health inequality literature. One is that inequ...
Gustav Kjellsson,Dennis Petrie,Tom Van Ourti
Gustav Kjellsson
Measuring health disparities is key to monitoring health systems, but hitherto disparities in the individual risk people face about their future health has been neglected. This paper integrates individual health risk into income-related hea...