Financing and funding health care: Optimal policy and political implementability [0.03%]
医疗融资与资金支持：最优政策及政治可行性
Robert Nuscheler,Kerstin Roeder
Robert Nuscheler
Health care financing and funding are usually analyzed in isolation. This paper combines the corresponding strands of the literature and thereby advances our understanding of the important interaction between them. We investigate the impact...
Tobacco control campaign in Uruguay: Impact on smoking cessation during pregnancy and birth weight [0.03%]
乌拉圭烟草控制运动对孕期戒烟和出生体重的影响
Jeffrey E Harris,Ana Inés Balsa,Patricia Triunfo
Jeffrey E Harris
We analyzed a nationwide registry of all pregnancies in Uruguay during 2007-2013 to assess the impact of three types of tobacco control policies: (1) provider-level interventions aimed at the treatment of nicotine dependence, (2) national-l...
Rudy Douven,Minke Remmerswaal,Ilaria Mosca
Rudy Douven
We evaluate the introduction of a reimbursement schedule for self-employed mental health care providers in the Netherlands in 2008. The reimbursement schedule follows a discontinuous discrete step function-once the provider has passed a tre...
Short- and medium-term effects of informal care provision on female caregivers' health [0.03%]
女性照料者照顾的短期和中期对健康的影响
Hendrik Schmitz,Matthias Westphal
Hendrik Schmitz
In this paper, we present estimates of the effect of informal care provision on female caregivers' health. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and assess effects up to seven years after care provision. The results suggest that ...
Welfare implications of learning through solicitation versus diversification in health care [0.03%]
医疗保健中通过寻求信息学习与通过多样化学习的福利含义
Anirban Basu
Anirban Basu
Using Roy's model of sorting behavior, I study welfare implications of learning about medical care quality through the current health care data production infrastructure that relies on solicitation of research subjects. Due to severe advers...
Günther Fink,Felix Masiye
Günther Fink
We evaluate the productivity effects of investment in preventive health technology through a randomized controlled trial in rural Zambia. In the experiment, access to subsidized bed nets was randomly assigned at the community level; 516 far...
Randomized Controlled Trial
Journal of health economics. 2015 Jul:42:151-64. DOI:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.04.004 2015
Bernard Fortin,Myra Yazbeck
Bernard Fortin
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these effects partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are ...
Normann Lorenz
Normann Lorenz
This paper analyzes the interaction of direct and indirect risk selection in health insurance markets. It is shown that direct risk selection - using measures unrelated to the benefit package like selective advertising or 'losing' applicati...
Govert E Bijwaard,Hans van Kippersluis,Justus Veenman
Govert E Bijwaard
We aim to disentangle the relative impact of (i) cognitive ability and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent var...
Does women's education affect breast cancer risk and survival? Evidence from a population based social experiment in education [0.03%]
女性教育是否影响乳腺癌的风险和生存率？来自一项基于人口的教育社会实验的证据
Mårten Palme,Emilia Simeonova
Mårten Palme
Breast cancer is a notable exception to the well documented positive education gradient in health. A number of studies have found that highly educated women are more likely to be diagnosed with the disease. Breast cancer is therefore often ...