Lyudmyla Sonchak
Lyudmyla Sonchak
This paper evaluates the impact of state-level Medicaid reimbursement rates for obstetric care on prenatal care utilization across demographic groups. It also uses these rates as an instrumental variable to assess the importance of prenatal...
Dan A Black,Yu-Chieh Hsu,Lowell J Taylor
Dan A Black
Many studies link cross-state variation in compulsory schooling laws to early-life educational attainment, thereby providing a plausible way to investigate the causal impact of education on various lifetime outcomes. We use this strategy to...
Financial incentives in health: New evidence from India's Janani Suraksha Yojana [0.03%]
印度Janani Suraksha Yojana健康激励的新证据
Timothy Powell-Jackson,Sumit Mazumdar,Anne Mills
Timothy Powell-Jackson
This paper studies the health effects of one of the world's largest demand-side financial incentive programmes--India's Janani Suraksha Yojana. Our difference-in-difference estimates exploit heterogeneity in the implementation of the financ...
Martin Huber,Michael Lechner,Conny Wunsch
Martin Huber
This paper investigates the average effects of firm-provided workplace health promotion measures on labour market outcomes of the firms' employees. Exploiting linked employer-employee panel data that consist of rich survey-based and adminis...
Osea Giuntella,Fabrizio Mazzonna
Osea Giuntella
This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. Specifically, we merge information on individual characteristics from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-2009) with detailed local labour market characteristics, and we then exploi...
Comparative Study
Journal of health economics. 2015 Sep:43:140-53. DOI:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.06.006 2015
An economy of scales: A selective review of obesity's economic causes, consequences, and solutions [0.03%]
从经济学视角审视肥胖问题：原因、后果及解决方案综述
John Cawley
John Cawley
This paper reviews the economic research on obesity, covering topics such as the measurement of, and trends in, obesity, the economic causes of obesity (e.g. the monetary price and time cost of food, food assistance programs, income, educat...
The effect of health insurance on workers' compensation filing: Evidence from the affordable care act's age-based threshold for dependent coverage [0.03%]
基于 Affordable Care Act 的年龄门槛对依赖性保险覆盖对工伤赔偿的影响：证据来自 Affordable Care Act 的年龄门槛对依赖性保险覆盖
Marcus Dillender
Marcus Dillender
This paper identifies the effect of health insurance on workers' compensation (WC) filing for young adults by implementing a regression discontinuity design using WC medical claims data from Texas. The results suggest health insurance facto...
Arthur E Attema,Werner B F Brouwer,Olivier l&#x;Haridon et al.
Arthur E Attema et al.
This paper is the first to apply prospect theory to societal health-related decision making. In particular, we allow for utility curvature, equity weighting, sign-dependence, and loss aversion in choices concerning quality of life of other ...
Short-run effects of job loss on health conditions, health insurance, and health care utilization [0.03%]
失业对健康状况、健康保险和医疗服务利用的短期影响
Jessamyn Schaller,Ann Huff Stevens
Jessamyn Schaller
Job loss in the United States is associated with reductions in income and long-term increases in mortality rates. This paper examines the short-run changes in health, health care access, and health care utilization after job loss that lead ...
Immigration policy and birth weight: Positive externalities in Italian law [0.03%]
移民政策与出生体重——意大利法律的正外部性效应
Luca Salmasi,Luca Pieroni
Luca Salmasi
A decade ago, the political party of the Italian center-right voted a law restricting immigration. The law became effective in early 2005, when the Italian parliament approved the decree for its application, but one of its articles, grantin...
Comparative Study
Journal of health economics. 2015 Sep:43:128-39. DOI:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.06.009 2015