Qian Wu,David M Kaplan
Qian Wu
Although ordinal health outcome values are categories like "poor" health or "moderate" depression, they are often assigned values 1,2,3,… for convenience. We provide results on interpretation of subsequent analysis based on ordinary least ...
High speed internet and the widening gender gap in adolescent mental health: Evidence from Spanish hospital records [0.03%]
高速互联网与青少年精神卫生的性别差距扩大：来自西班牙医院记录的证据
Esther Arenas-Arroyo,Daniel Fernandez-Kranz,Natalia Nollenberger
Esther Arenas-Arroyo
We exploit variations in fiber optic (FTTH) deployment to assess the impact of high-speed internet access on adolescent mental health. Our findings reveal that FTTH access increases addictive Internet usage and reduces time allocated to sle...
Christopher J Ruhm
Christopher J Ruhm
This study investigates whether worsening mental health has played a significant role in the rising mortality rates experienced by some population groups in the early 21st century, a question that has gained prominence with increased attent...
Luca Pieroni,Melcior Rosselló Roig,Luca Salmasi et al.
Luca Pieroni et al.
We estimate the effect of granting legal status to immigrant women on voluntary abortions. We exploit the 2007 EU enlargement as an exogenous shock to legal status for Romanian and Bulgarian women, considering Italy as a destination country...
Does knowing the costs of other physicians affect doctors' referrals? [0.03%]
知晓其他医生的费用信息会影响医生的转诊行为吗？
Scott Barkowski
Scott Barkowski
Patient referrals from primary care physicians (PCPs) to specialists are common in the American health care industry, but are typically made without any knowledge of relative specialist costs. In this study, I estimate the effect of providi...
The impact of neonatal care on moderate-risk infants: Evidence from healthcare use in the first two years of life [0.03%]
新生儿护理对中危婴儿的影响——来自生命头两年医疗保健利用的证据
Serena Yu,Kei Lui,Denzil G Fiebig et al.
Serena Yu et al.
Advances in evidence-based neonatal care have led to large improvements in the survival rates of high-risk newborns. Yet studies have documented wide variation in the care of more prevalent moderate-risk infants, who comprise a much larger ...
Price transparency in healthcare: Bargaining incentives and patient responses [0.03%]
医疗保健的价格透明化：讨价还价的动机和患者的反应
Yujie Feng
Yujie Feng
This paper studies the impact of price transparency on healthcare prices, using a natural experiment involving the gradual disclosure of medical procedure prices on a state-run website. The study finds that negotiated allowed amounts decrea...
Hélène Schernberg
Hélène Schernberg
Temporal risk aversion can justify a social genetic insurance scheme, even in the absence of reclassification risk. I model individuals who take a genetic test in period 0 and may become ill in period 2. I show that redistributing from low-...
The impacts of health shocks on household labor supply and domestic production [0.03%]
健康意外事件对家庭劳动力供给和家庭生产的冲击分析
Giovanni Di Meo,Onur Eryilmaz
Giovanni Di Meo
This paper investigates the impact of severe health shocks on labor supply decisions and domestic production within German households. We draw from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), focusing on individuals aged 25 to 55 at the time of...