Competition matters: Uniform vs. indication-based pricing of pharmaceuticals [0.03%]
竞争有影响：统一价格与指标标示下的药品定价模式比较研究
Kurt R Brekke,Dag Morten Dalen,Odd Rune Straume
Kurt R Brekke
Pharmaceutical expenditures are rising rapidly, driven in part by the innovation of highly effective but very expensive drug therapies that treat multiple diseases, implying that payers face a critical trade-off between cost containment and...
Kristian S Hansen,Juan D Moreno-Ternero,Lars P Østerdal
Kristian S Hansen
This paper develops a unified framework for evaluating health outcomes that jointly incorporates equity and productivity. Extending beyond traditional QALYs, PALYs, and the more recent PQALYs, we introduce a broader class of evaluation func...
Income and immunity: The consequences of social security administration reform for childhood infection risk [0.03%]
收入与免疫力：社保局改革对儿童感染风险的后果
Mary-Alice Doyle,Stefanie Schurer,Steven Guthridge
Mary-Alice Doyle
We analyse the impact of a change in the administration of social security payments, occurring in utero and early infancy, on health in early childhood. We identify this impact through the gradual rollout of the so-called 'income management...
When fewer children mean shorter lives: Fertility policy and elderly well-being in China [0.03%]
少子化与短寿：中国生育政策与老年人福祉之间的联系
Wei Huang,Xiaoyan Lei,Shuang Qiu
Wei Huang
We study the long-run consequences of fertility policy for aging and survival, exploiting the staggered provincial rollout of China's 1970s Later, Longer, Fewer campaign. Linking variation in exposure to the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Lon...
Health dynamics and reporting bias at retirement: An analysis using high-frequency data [0.03%]
基于高频数据的健康动态与退休偏见分析
Jiayi Wen,Zixi Ye,Xuan Zhang
Jiayi Wen
We introduce a novel approach to identify state-dependent reporting bias in subjective health measures. The central idea is that health operates as a stock, making abrupt shifts in self-reported health (SRH) following retirement more likely...
Matej Lorko,Maroš Servátka,Robert Slonim et al.
Matej Lorko et al.
Many volunteer markets, and most prominently markets for substances of human origin, feature dynamic coordination problems where volunteering today can temporarily restrict volunteering later. We show that, unsurprisingly, these restriction...
Adrian Mehic
Adrian Mehic
This paper examines how expanding the legal definition of sexual assault affects fertility and sexual behavior, using a panel of European countries. I find that switching to tacit consent-based legislation reduces fertility by about 4% rela...
The effect of offering standardized "Simple Choice" plans on premiums in the Federally Facilitated ACA marketplaces [0.03%]
联邦ACA市场中提供标准化的"简单选择"计划对保费的影响
Ben Hopkins,Sean Lyons
Ben Hopkins
Plan standardization policies aim to help consumers assess plan value by limiting variation in cost-sharing and directing attention towards premiums, networks, and formularies. They may also intensify issuer competition and lower premiums. ...
Tele-triage, care substitution, and health: Evidence from quasi-randomly assigned nurses [0.03%]
基于准随机分配护工的远程分诊、护理替代与健康：证据来源
Liam Rose,Ken Suzuki,Linda Diem Tran et al.
Liam Rose et al.
Patients experiencing acute health symptoms often face uncertainty about how and where to receive care. We study patients who call a nurse advice line and receive one of four recommendations: emergency department (ED), urgent care (UC), pri...
The impact of health shocks on housing instability: Evidence from urban Medicaid enrollees [0.03%]
健康问题对住房不稳定性的影响--来自城市医疗补助项目参与者的证据
Kacie L Dragan
Kacie L Dragan
Poor health and unstable housing are closely linked. Most research has focused on how housing shapes health, with little empirical study of whether and how health events can lead to future residential mobility or housing instability. This p...