Hospital Billing Regulations and Financial Well-being: Evidence from California's Fair Pricing Law [0.03%]
医院收费规定与财务健康：来自加州公平定价法的证据
Yaa Akosa Antwi,Marion Aouad,Nathan Blascak
Yaa Akosa Antwi
We examine the financial consequences of the 2007 California Fair Pricing Law, which places a price ceiling on hospital bills for financially vulnerable individuals. Using cross-sectional variation in exposure to the law, proxied by county-...
Consolidation of Local Health Authorities and mortality in the Italian NHS [0.03%]
意大利全民卫生保健体系中地方卫生局合并与死亡率的关系
Silvia Balia,Rinaldo Brau,Sara Pau
Silvia Balia
This paper studies the health consequences of administrative centralization in healthcare, focusing on the consolidation of Local Health Authorities (LHAs) within the Italian National Health Service. This type of reform fits within a broade...
The effect of health insurance expansion on price and demand for medications among the uninsured [0.03%]
扩大健康保险对未参保人群药品价格和需求的影响
Chuanzi Yue
Chuanzi Yue
Social health insurance expansions can affect not only new beneficiaries but also those who remain outside the program. This paper studies these spillovers in the context of Medicare Part D. Increases in insured demand can raise or lower pr...
Impacts of contemporaneous air pollution exposure on cognitive performance in Kenya [0.03%]
肯尼亚同时期空气污染暴露对认知表现的影响
Xuqian Ma,Michelle Layvant,Edward Miguel et al.
Xuqian Ma et al.
We estimate the short-term cognitive effects of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure using novel exposure data collected during cognitive testing in Kenya. Unlike most existing studies that rely on satellite-based or fixed monitoring st...
Improving disability benefit take-up: Experimental evidence from a public information campaign in Vietnam [0.03%]
改善残疾人福利领取状况：越南公共信息运动的实证证据
Michael Palmer
Michael Palmer
Despite substantial disability-related costs, participation in public disability benefit programs remains incomplete in many countries. This is particularly the case in low- and middle-income countries where disability programs are relative...
Randomized Controlled Trial
Journal of health economics. 2026 Jul:108:103163. DOI:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2026.103163 2026
Dario Salcedo,Sumedha Gupta,Hailemichael Shone et al.
Dario Salcedo et al.
Schools support families not only through education but also by facilitating daily routines, childcare, and social supports. Disruptions to schooling may therefore have broader effects on family well-being, including parental mental health....
Mir M Ali,Thanh T Lu,Johanna Catherine Maclean et al.
Mir M Ali et al.
Child maltreatment is a pressing concern in the United States, with more than four million children referred to child protective services in 2022. Parental mental health and substance use disorders are strongly associated with child maltrea...
Retirement and cognitive abilities: Evidence from the German early retirement age reform for women [0.03%]
退休与认知能力——来自德国女性法定退休年龄规定的证据
Henrik Bergschneider,Robin Kottmann,Hendrik Schmitz et al.
Henrik Bergschneider et al.
We study the effects of retirement on cognitive functioning among women aged 63 to 67 by exploiting a German retirement reform that raised the early retirement age for women born after 1951 by three years, from 60 to 63. Our indicators of c...
Online food delivery and body weight: Quasi-experimental evidence from China [0.03%]
基于中国的准实验证据：外卖与体重关系研究
Guanfu Fang,Wei Li,Feng Liu
Guanfu Fang
This paper estimates the causal effect of online food delivery platforms on body weight in China. Exploiting the staggered rollout of Eleme across Chinese cities between 2010 and 2020, we find that platform entry shifts the BMI distribution...
The benefits of timely access to treatment: Substance use disorders, healthcare utilization and employment [0.03%]
治疗的及时获取带来的益处：物质使用障碍、卫生保健利用和就业关系探究
Jenny Williams,Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen,Christiern Rose
Jenny Williams
This research studies the impact of improving access to treatment for substance use disorders by reducing wait times. Linked individual-level administrative data are used to estimate the impacts of wait times on patients' treatment service ...