Alone but better off? Adult child migration and health of elderly parents in Moldova [0.03%]
子女迁移与摩尔多瓦老年人健康状况之间的关系研究
Marcus H Böhme,Ruth Persian,Tobias Stöhr
Marcus H Böhme
Increasing labor migration and simultaneous aging of societies are two important demographic developments many poor countries face. Elderly people who are left behind may experience a decrease in welfare when their children migrate. This pa...
Xavier Irz,Pascal Leroy,Vincent Réquillart et al.
Xavier Irz et al.
The effect of consumers' compliance with nutritional recommendations is uncertain because of potentially complex substitutions. To lift this uncertainty, we adapt a model of consumer behaviour under rationing to the case of linear nutrition...
Elimination and selection by aspects in health choice experiments: prioritising health service innovations [0.03%]
健康选择实验中的删减与权衡：优先考虑卫生服务创新
Seda Erdem,Danny Campbell,Carl Thompson
Seda Erdem
Priorities for public health innovations are typically not considered equally by all members of the public. When faced with a choice between various innovation options, it is, therefore, possible that some respondents eliminate and/or selec...
Yiyan Liu,Ginger Zhe Jin
Yiyan Liu
We study whether employer premium contribution schemes could impact the pricing behavior of health plans and contribute to rising premiums. Using 1991-2011 data before and after a 1999 premium subsidy policy change in the Federal Employees ...
Air pollution, avoidance behaviour and children's respiratory health: evidence from England [0.03%]
英国的空气污染、回避行为与儿童呼吸系统健康状况之间的关系研究
Katharina Janke
Katharina Janke
Despite progress in air pollution control, concerns remain over the health impact of poor air quality. Governments increasingly issue air quality information to enable vulnerable groups to avoid exposure. Avoidance behaviour potentially bia...
Venke Furre Haaland,Kjetil Telle
Venke Furre Haaland
Using variation across geographic regions, a number of studies from the U.S. and other developed countries have found more deaths in economic upturns and less deaths in economic downturns. We use data from regions in Norway for 1977-2008 an...
Yu-Wei Luke Chu
Yu-Wei Luke Chu
More and more states have passed laws that allow individuals to use marijuana for medical purposes. There is an ongoing, heated policy debate over whether these laws have increased marijuana use among non-patients. In this paper, I address ...
Joan Costa-Font,Alistair McGuire,Nebibe Varol
Joan Costa-Font
Increasing the adoption of generic drugs has the potential to improve static efficiency in a health system without harming pharmaceutical innovation. However, very little is known about the timing of generic adoption and diffusion. No prior...
Can Caesarean section improve child and maternal health? The case of breech babies [0.03%]
剖宫产能改善母婴健康吗？臀位婴儿的情况为例
Vibeke Myrup Jensen,Miriam Wüst
Vibeke Myrup Jensen
This paper examines the health effects of Caesarean section (CS) for children and their mothers. We use exogenous variation in the probability of CS in a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. Using administrative Danish data, we exploit an...
The impact of tort reform on intensity of treatment: evidence from heart patients [0.03%]
关于侵权法改革对治疗强度影响的实证研究——来自心脏病患者的数据
Ronen Avraham,Max Schanzenbach
Ronen Avraham
This paper analyzes the effect of non-economic damage caps on the treatment intensity of heart attack victims. We focus on whether a patient receives a major intervention in the form of either a coronary artery by-pass or angioplasty. We fi...