Charles Courtemanche,Yang Liang,Johanna Catherine Maclean et al.
Charles Courtemanche et al.
E-cigarette licensure laws (ELLs) require retailers to obtain a state license to sell e-cigarettes over the counter. This study is the first to comprehensively explore the effect of ELL adoption on youth tobacco product use. Using data from...
Luís Sá,Odd Rune Straume
Luís Sá
We study competing hospitals' incentives for quality provision in a dynamic setting where healthcare is an experience good. In our model, the utility a patient derives from choosing a particular provider depends on a subjective component sp...
Kai Liu,Benjapon Prommawin,Fred Schroyen
Kai Liu
We study the effects of health insurance coverage on agricultural production decisions, examining the causal relationships by exploiting a health care reform and providing a theoretical framework to elucidate underlying mechanisms. We find ...
Julian House,Nicola Lacetera,Mario Macis et al.
Julian House et al.
In a randomized controlled trial conducted in three waves over 2.5 years and involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) from a Canadian government service agency, we studied how providing CSRs with repeated performance fee...
Randomized Controlled Trial
Journal of health economics. 2024 Sep:97:102914. DOI:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2024.102914 2024
Investigating the complexity of naloxone distribution: Which policies matter for pharmacies and potential recipients [0.03%]
纳洛酮发放的复杂性调查：哪些政策对药店和潜在接受者重要
Rosanna Smart,David Powell,Rosalie Liccardo Pacula et al.
Rosanna Smart et al.
Despite efforts to expand naloxone access, opioid-related overdoses remain a significant contributor to mortality. We study state efforts to expand naloxone distribution through pharmacies by reducing the non-monetary costs to prescribers, ...
Getting the right tail right: Modeling tails of health expenditure distributions [0.03%]
恰到好处的“尾部”模型：“卫生保健支出分布中的‘尾部’研究
Martin Karlsson,Yulong Wang,Nicolas R Ziebarth
Martin Karlsson
Health expenditure data almost always include extreme values, implying that the underlying distribution has heavy tails. This may result in infinite variances as well as higher-order moments and bias the commonly used least squares methods....
Housing wealth, fertility and children's health in China: A regression discontinuity design [0.03%]
住房财富、生育与儿童健康：基于回归断点设计的研究
Geer Ang,Ya Tan,Yingjia Zhai et al.
Geer Ang et al.
This paper examines the influence of housing wealth on fertility outcomes through a regression discontinuity design based on a 2006 Chinese housing-market policy. Our analysis reveals that the positive impact of this policy on housing wealt...
Financial incentives for sanitation take-up: A randomized control trial in rural Vietnam [0.03%]
金融激励与卫生设施使用：越南农村地区的一项随机对照试验
Cuong Viet Nguyen,Tung Duc Phung
Cuong Viet Nguyen
This study assesses the impact of financial incentives on hygienic latrine ownership by poor/near-poor households in Vietnam. Rural communes were randomly assigned to a control group and three treatment arm groups: (T1) a rebate for househo...
Margarita Petrusevich
Margarita Petrusevich
Alcohol control policies are implemented to reduce alcoholism and related harms around the globe. This work examines the effects of a policy that restricted when alcohol could be purchased on child outcomes in Russia. To identify causal imp...
Adverse selection and network design under regulated plan prices: Evidence from Medicaid [0.03%]
监管计划价格下的逆向选择与网络设计：来自医疗补助计划的证据
Amanda R Kreider,Timothy J Layton,Mark Shepard et al.
Amanda R Kreider et al.
Health plans for the poor increasingly limit access to specialty hospitals. We investigate the role of adverse selection in generating this equilibrium among private plans in Medicaid. Studying a network change, we find that covering a top ...