The education-health gradient: Revisiting the role of socio-emotional skills [0.03%]
教育与健康梯度：重新审视社会情感技能的作用
Miriam Gensowski,Mette Gørtz
Miriam Gensowski
Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio-emotional skills? We find that the gradient in health behaviors and outcomes is reduced by about 15 to 50% from accounting for ...
A structural microsimulation model for demand-side cost-sharing in healthcare [0.03%]
一种用于医疗保健需求方分担成本的结构化微观模拟模型
Jan Boone,Minke Remmerswaal
Jan Boone
Demand-side cost-sharing reduces moral hazard in healthcare but increases exposure to out-of-pocket expenditure. We introduce a structural microsimulation model to evaluate both total and out-of-pocket expenditure for different cost-sharing...
Michael R Richards,Christopher M Whaley
Michael R Richards
Private equity is an increasing presence in US healthcare, with unclear consequences. Leveraging unique data sources and difference-in-differences designs, we examine the largest private equity hospital takeover in history. The affected hos...
Who responds to longer wait times? The effects of predicted emergency wait times on the health and volume of patients who present for care [0.03%]
谁会对较长的等待时间作出反应？预测的急诊候诊时间对求医病人健康和数量的影响是什么？
Stephenson Strobel
Stephenson Strobel
Healthcare is often free at the point-of-care so that price does not deter patients. However, the dis-utility from waiting for care that often occurs could also lead to deterrence. I investigate responses in the volume and types of patients...
Religious proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India [0.03%]
宗教接近与误导信息：来自印度移动电话宣传活动的实验证据
Alex Armand,Britta Augsburg,Antonella Bancalari et al.
Alex Armand et al.
We investigate how religion concordance influences the effectiveness of preventive health campaigns. Conducted during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in two major Indian cities marked by Hindu-Muslim tensions, we randomly assigned...
Randomized Controlled Trial
Journal of health economics. 2024 Jun:96:102883. DOI:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2024.102883 2024
Persistence and heterogeneity of the effects of educating mothers to improve child immunisation uptake: Experimental evidence from Uttar Pradesh in India [0.03%]
印度北方邦开展母亲教育以提高儿童免疫接种率的持久性和异质性实验证据
Stephen O&#x;Neill,Richard Grieve,Kultar Singh et al.
Stephen O&#x;Neill et al.
Childhood vaccinations are among the most cost-effective health interventions. Yet, in India, where immunisation services are widely available free of charge, a substantial proportion of children remain unvaccinated. We revisit households 3...
Randomized Controlled Trial
Journal of health economics. 2024 Jun:96:102899. DOI:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2024.102899 2024
Born on the wrong side of the tracks: Exploring the causal effects of segregation on infant health [0.03%]
轨道的错位：探讨隔离对婴儿健康的影响因果关系
Hoa Vu,Tiffany L Green,Laura E T Swan
Hoa Vu
Prior research has found that a high level of residential racial segregation, or the degree to which racial/ethnic groups are isolated from one another, is associated with worsened infant health outcomes, particularly among non-Hispanic (NH...
Priyanka Anand,Lisa B Kahn
Priyanka Anand
We examine whether a friend or older sibling's teen pregnancy impacts one's own sexual behavior. Employing an event study design and rich retrospective data on sexual activity, we find that those who observe a peer's teen pregnancy change s...
Long-run consequences of informal elderly care and implications of public long-term care insurance [0.03%]
长期照顾对老年人的长期影响及公共长期护理保险的意义
Thorben Korfhage,Björn Fischer-Weckemann
Thorben Korfhage
We estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal caregiving to study short and long-term costs of informal caregiving in Germany. Incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system, we...
The cost of influence: How gifts to physicians shape prescriptions and drug costs [0.03%]
影响的代价——医生收受礼物如何改变处方和药品价格
Melissa Newham,Marica Valente
Melissa Newham
This paper investigates the influence of gifts - monetary and in-kind payments - from drug firms to US physicians on prescription behavior and drug costs. Using causal models and machine learning, we estimate physicians' heterogeneous respo...