Elaine Kelly,Carol Propper,Ben Zaranko
Elaine Kelly
This paper examines the effect of nurse shortages on healthcare production. Employing novel high-frequency data, we examine what effect the absence of nursing staff has on inpatient mortality and other outcomes associated with nursing care....
The impact of vertical integration on health care delivery and costs: Evidence from physician-pharmacy integration [0.03%]
纵向一体化对医疗卫生服务提供和成本的影响：来自医生-药店纵向一体化的证据
Pragya Kakani
Pragya Kakani
Vertical integration among health care providers is an increasingly common feature of U.S. health care. This study investigates the impact of vertical integration in the context of oncology practices launching in-house pharmacies dispensing...
Optimal mental health belief formation with information avoidance: A decision-theoretic model [0.03%]
基于信息回避的最优心理健康信念形成：决策理论模型
Daehyun Kim
Daehyun Kim
Mental health stigma hinders access to healthcare by distorting belief formation and decision-making. Stigmatized individuals often underestimate their risk of mental illness and avoid diagnostic information. This study develops a decision-...
Fertility responses to tropical cyclones: Causal evidence and mechanisms [0.03%]
台风对生育率的影响：因果证据及机制分析
Ha Trong Nguyen,Francis Mitrou
Ha Trong Nguyen
In light of growing concerns over escalating natural disaster risks and persistently low fertility rates, this paper quantifies the causal impacts of tropical cyclones and identifies the pathways through which they influence childbearing de...
James Flynn
James Flynn
This paper documents an important unintended consequence of expanding contraceptive access; it reduces the rates of adverse infant health outcomes. I study a large family planning initiative in the St. Louis metropolitan area that provided ...
Partial rating area offering and tests for anticompetitive market segmentation in the ACA Marketplaces [0.03%]
《ACA市场中反竞争性市场分割的部分评级区供应及试验》
Hanming Fang,Ami Ko
Hanming Fang
To limit price variation across consumers in the Health Insurance Marketplaces, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates that insurance plans be uniformly priced across multiple counties within the same geographic ratin...
Manuel Bagues,Carmen Villa
Manuel Bagues
Many European countries have raised the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) from 16 to 18 over the past decades. These policies often comprise a bundle of reforms including restrictions on alcohol sales to minors, venue access limitations, an...
The effect of West German television on smoking and health: A natural experiment from German reunification [0.03%]
德国统一对吸烟和健康的影响：一项来自德国统一的自然实验
Andrea Bernini,Sven A Hartmann
Andrea Bernini
This paper examines the long-term impact of West German television exposure on smoking behavior in East Germany, with a focus on gender-specific responses. Using data from 1989 and 2002 and leveraging quasi-random variation in West German T...
Dhaval Dave,Christine Piette Durrance,Bilge Erten et al.
Dhaval Dave et al.
In overturning Roe v. Wade and triggering laws in many states that ban or severely restrict abortion, the Supreme Court's landmark 2022 Dobbs decision dramatically altered the landscape of reproductive health in the U.S. Prior research has ...
The time cost of a disability [0.03%]
残疾的时间成本
Daniel S Hamermesh,Michał Myck
Daniel S Hamermesh
We consider how a physical disability alters patterns of time use. A disability may raise the time cost of some activities, making them differentially less worth doing; or it may make switching activities more costly. Both possibilities pre...