Andrew D Foster,Yong Suk Lee
Andrew D Foster
Concerns about the quality of state-financed nursing home care has led to the wide-scale adoption by states of pass-through subsidies, in which Medicaid reimbursement rates are directly tied to staffing expenditure. We examine the effects o...
The role of marriage in the causal pathway from economic conditions early in life to mortality [0.03%]
经济状况早期生活对死亡率的影响路径中婚姻的作用
Gerard J van den Berg,Sumedha Gupta
Gerard J van den Berg
This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality. We use individual data from Dutch registers (years 1815-2000), combined with business cycle conditions in childhood as i...
Kyle Carlson
Kyle Carlson
I use new administrative data on mass layoffs and plant closings to study the effects of distressing economic news. Exposure to stressful events during pregnancy can impair fetal development. I find that announcement of impending job losses...
Understanding heterogeneity in the effects of birth weight on adult cognition and wages [0.03%]
认识出生体重对成人认知和工资影响的异质性
C Justin Cook,Jason M Fletcher
C Justin Cook
A large economics literature has shown long term impacts of birth weight on adult outcomes, including IQ and earnings that are often robust to sibling or twin fixed effects. We examine potential mechanisms underlying these effects by incorp...
Randall P Ellis,Shenyi Jiang,Willard G Manning
Randall P Ellis
We examine the efficiency-based arguments for second-best optimal health insurance with multiple treatment goods and multiple time periods. Correlated shocks across health care goods and over time interact with complementarity and substitut...
Do maximum waiting times guarantees change clinical priorities for elective treatment? Evidence from Scotland [0.03%]
最长等待时间承诺会改变临床治疗优先次序吗？苏格兰的证据
Silviya Nikolova,Arthur Sinko,Matt Sutton
Silviya Nikolova
The level and distribution of patient waiting times for elective treatment are a major concern in publicly funded health care systems. Strict targets, which have specified maximum waiting times, have been introduced in the NHS over the last...
The price elasticity of demand for heroin: Matched longitudinal and experimental evidence [0.03%]
海洛因需求的价格弹性：纵向匹配和实验证据
Todd A Olmstead,Sheila M Alessi,Brendan Kline et al.
Todd A Olmstead et al.
This paper reports estimates of the price elasticity of demand for heroin based on a newly constructed dataset. The dataset has two matched components concerning the same sample of regular heroin users: longitudinal information about real-w...
Dave E Marcotte
Dave E Marcotte
Seasonal pollen allergies affect approximately 1 in 5 school age children. Clinical research has established that these allergies result in large and consistent decrements in cognitive functioning, problem solving ability and speed, focus a...
Does prescription drug coverage improve mental health? Evidence from Medicare Part D [0.03%]
关于医疗保险D部分的经验证据：处方药物保险能改善精神健康吗？
Padmaja Ayyagari,Dan M Shane
Padmaja Ayyagari
The introduction of the Medicare Prescription Drug program (Part D) in 2006 resulted in a significant increase in access to coverage for older adults in the U.S. Several studies have documented the impact of this program on prescription dru...
Where have all the young men gone? Using sex ratios to measure fetal death rates [0.03%]
男孩去哪儿了？利用性别比测算婴儿死亡率
Nicholas J Sanders,Charles Stoecker
Nicholas J Sanders
Fetal health is an important consideration in policy formation. Unfortunately, a complete census of fetal deaths, an important measure of overall fetal health, is infeasible, and available data are selectively observed. We consider this iss...