Alicia Atwood,Sarah Pearlman
Alicia Atwood
We investigate the impacts on education and employment of a reduction in measles stemming from a nationwide immunization program in Mexico. The program lead to significant improvements in childhood health as measles causes "immune amnesia",...
The incentive to treat: Physician agency and the expansion of the 340B drug pricing program [0.03%]
治疗的动机：医师代理权和340B药品定价计划的扩展
Danea Horn
Danea Horn
The 340B Drug Pricing Program incentivizes healthcare providers to increase medication use. It does this by allowing certain safety-net hospitals and clinics to purchase outpatient drugs at considerable discounts from manufacturers but be r...
The impact of budget cuts on individual patient health: Causal evidence from hospital closures [0.03%]
预算削减对患者健康的影响：来自医院关闭的因果证据
Simone Ghislandi,Anna-Theresa Renner,Nirosha Elsem Varghese
Simone Ghislandi
Public finance constraints following the 2008 financial crisis in Europe often affected the hospital sector. This paper investigates i) the causal health impacts of reduced hospital supply, and ii) possible mechanisms to explain these. Usin...
Marcella Alsan,Romaine A Campbell,Lukas Leister et al.
Marcella Alsan et al.
We investigate whether increased racial diversity of clinical trial principal investigators could increase the enrollment of Black patients, which currently lags population and disease-burden. We conducted a survey experiment in which respo...
The effect of smoking cessation on mental health: Evidence from a randomized trial [0.03%]
尼古丁成瘾与心理健康关系的实证研究——来自随机试验的证据
Katherine Meckel,Katherine Rittenhouse
Katherine Meckel
One in nine Americans smokes cigarettes, and a disproportionate share of smokers suffer from mental illness. Despite this correlation, there exists little rigorous evidence on the effects of smoking cessation on mental health. We re-use dat...
Seth Freedman,Lauren Hoehn-Velasco,Diana R Jolles
Seth Freedman
Over 2005-2019, the number of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) grew by 10%, and the number of NICU beds increased by 30%. This expansion in intensive care has raised concerns over unwarranted intensive care admissions. In this study, w...
Is supported employment effective for Disability Insurance recipients with mental health conditions? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Belgium [0.03%]
辅助就业对于患有精神疾病的残疾保险领取者有效吗？来自比利时随机实验的证据
Sébastien Fontenay,Ilan Tojerow
Sébastien Fontenay
We conduct a randomized experiment (n = 600) to evaluate a Supported Employment (SE) program that, through intensive job coaching and follow-along support, aims to increase work activity of Belgian Disability Insurance (DI) recipients with ...
The pharmacist will see you now: Pharmacist prescribed contraceptives and fertility rates [0.03%]
药师现在就见你：药师开具避孕药与生育率的关系
Daniel Grossman,Arijit Ray,Allyssa Wadsworth
Daniel Grossman
Policies that increase contraceptive access for young women and their partners are a potentially low-cost way of reducing unintended pregnancies and improving later life outcomes. Several states have recently implemented laws that allow pha...
Gijsbert Zwart
Gijsbert Zwart
We analyse a model of optimal risk adjustment in competitive health-insurance markets which suffer from both ex-ante adverse selection and ex-post moral hazard. We find, firstly, that, unlike in an adverse-selection-only market, in an envir...
Shinsuke Tanaka,Tetsuya Matsubayashi
Shinsuke Tanaka
This study examines the causal effects of sunlight exposure on suicide rates. Leveraging county-month-year data on solar insolation and suicide rates in the U.S. from 1979 to 2004, we provide first robust evidence that insufficient sunlight...