How Do Employers React to a Pay-or-Play Mandate? Early Evidence from San Francisco [0.03%]
雇主如何看待薪酬立法?来自旧金山的早期证据
Carrie H Colla,William H Dow,Arindrajit Dube
Carrie H Colla
Erratum to http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1558-9544.1228.
Gigi Moreno,Emma van Eijndhoven,Jennifer Benner et al.
Gigi Moreno et al.
Price controls for prescription drugs are once again at the forefront of policy discussions in the United States. Much of the focus has been on the potential short-term savings - in terms of lower spending - although evidence suggests price...
Using the Health and Retirement Study for Disability Policy Research: A Review [0.03%]
运用健康与退休研究开展残疾人政策研究:一项回顾性研究
Jody Schimmel Hyde,David C Stapleton
Jody Schimmel Hyde
The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a preeminent data source for research related to the experiences of workers nearing retirement, including the large share of those workers who experience a health shock or disability onset after age ...
Eric French,John Bailey Jones,Jeremy McCauley
Eric French
We assess the quality of the HRS's measures of out-of-pocket medical spending and health insurance premia, both in the "core interviews" and in the "exit interview" data. We provide detailed evidence on the quality of the HRS insurance prem...
The Impact of Pharmaceutical Innovation on Cancer Mortality in Belgium, 2004-2012 [0.03%]
2004至2012年比利时医药创新对癌症死亡率的影响
Frank R Lichtenberg
Frank R Lichtenberg
Cancer mortality declined in Belgium during the period 2004-2012, but there was considerable variation in the rate of decline across cancer sites (breast, lung, etc.). I analyze the effect that pharmaceutical innovation had on cancer mortal...
The Effect of the Health Insurance Mandate on Labor Market Activity and Time Allocation: Evidence from the Federal Dependent Coverage Provision [0.03%]
有关健康保险强制参保对劳动力市场活动和时间分配影响的实证研究——来自联邦被扶养人参保条款的证据
Otto Lenhart,Vinish Shrestha
Otto Lenhart
The primary goal of the federal dependent coverage mandate was to increase health insurance coverage among young adults, the group with the lowest prevalence of health insurance coverage. To understand the full impacts of the federal depend...
The Share Price Effect of CVS Health's Announcement to Stop Selling Tobacco: A Comparative Case Study Using Synthetic Controls [0.03%]
CVS公司宣布停止销售烟草对股价的影响:合成控制法的案例研究
Martin Andersen,Sebastian Bauhoff
Martin Andersen
We study how the announcement by CVS Health, a large US-based pharmacy chain, to stop selling tobacco products affected its share price and that of its close competitors, as well as major tobacco companies. Combining event study and synthet...
Estimating Regression-Based Medical Care Expenditure Indexes for Medicare Advantage Enrollees [0.03%]
基于回归的医疗保险优势受益人医疗保健支出指数估计
Anne E Hall
Anne E Hall
I construct a disease-based medical expenditure index for Medicare Advantage (private plan) enrollees using data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey from 2001 to 2009. I create the indexes by modeling total health-care expenditure ...
Evidence of Inefficiencies in Practice Patterns: Regional Variation in Medicare Medical and Drug Spending [0.03%]
医保地区差异表明医疗资源使用低效率:医保开销地区分布差异性显示医疗资源配置低效性
Melinda Buntin,Tamara Hayford
Melinda Buntin
Several studies have explored the causes and magnitude of geographic variation in Medicare spending and service use, but most of these studies have not taken into account that pharmaceuticals may substitute for medical service use. We addre...
David Granlund,Magnus Wikström
David Granlund
We study how the optimal public provision of health care depends on whether or not individuals have an option to seek publicly financed treatment in other regions. We find that, relative to the first-best solution, the government has an inc...