Benjamin Cowan,Benjamin Schwab
Benjamin Cowan
During prime working years, women have higher expected healthcare expenses than men. However, employees' insurance rates are not gender-rated in the employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) market. Thus, women may experience lower wages in...
Does home care for dependent elderly people improve their mental health? [0.03%]
居家护理如何改善依赖性老年人的心理健康？
Thomas Barnay,Sandrine Juin
Thomas Barnay
While theoretical models on long-term care decisions assume that the health production function of dependent elderly depends positively on the care received, it has not received much attention in the empirical literature. We estimate the ef...
Kazuya Fukushima,Sou Mizuoka,Shunsuke Yamamoto et al.
Kazuya Fukushima et al.
Despite the rapidly aging population, relatively little is known about how cost sharing affects the elderly's medical spending. Exploiting longitudinal claims data and the drastic reduction of coinsurance from 30% to 10% at age 70 in Japan,...
Investment subsidies and the adoption of electronic medical records in hospitals [0.03%]
补贴与医院电子病历的采用
David Dranove,Craig Garthwaite,Bingyang Li et al.
David Dranove et al.
In February 2009 the U.S. Congress unexpectedly passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). HITECH provides up to $27 billion to promote adoption and appropriate use of Electronic Medical Records ...
Comparing the effectiveness of individualistic, altruistic, and competitive incentives in motivating completion of mental exercises [0.03%]
比较单干激励、利他激励和竞争激励对心理健康操练完成动机的影响
Heather Schofield,George Loewenstein,Jessica Kopsic et al.
Heather Schofield et al.
This study examines the impact of individually oriented, purely altruistic, and a hybrid of competitive and cooperative monetary reward incentives on older adults' completion of cognitive exercises and cognitive function. We find that all t...
Randomized Controlled Trial
Journal of health economics. 2015 Dec:44:286-99. DOI:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.09.007 2015
The effect of health insurance coverage on medical care utilization and health outcomes: Evidence from Medicaid adult vision benefits [0.03%]
健康保险对医疗保健利用和健康结果的影响：来自Medicaid成人视力保障项目的证据
Brandy J Lipton,Sandra L Decker
Brandy J Lipton
Increasing the proportion of adults that have regular, comprehensive eye exams and reducing visual impairment due to uncorrected refractive error and other common eye health problems are federal health objectives. We examine the effect of v...
Abigail S Friedman
Abigail S Friedman
Understanding electronic cigarettes' effect on tobacco smoking is a central economic and policy issue. This paper examines the causal impact of e-cigarette access on conventional cigarette use by adolescents. Regression analyses consider ho...
The consumer welfare implications of governmental policies and firm strategy in markets for medicines [0.03%]
政府政策和企业战略在药品市场的消费者福利影响
Chirantan Chatterjee,Kensuke Kubo,Viswanath Pingali
Chirantan Chatterjee
This paper empirically examines the consumer welfare implications of changes in government policies related to patent protection and compulsory licensing in the Indian market for oral anti-diabetic (OAD) medicines. In contrast to previous s...
Karen A Grépin,Prashant Bharadwaj
Karen A Grépin
In 1980, Zimbabwe rapidly expanded access to secondary schools, providing a natural experiment to estimate the impact of increased maternal secondary education on child mortality. Exploiting age specific exposure to these reforms, we find t...
Comparative Study
Journal of health economics. 2015 Dec:44:97-117. DOI:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.08.003 2015
Is an early retirement offer good for your health? Quasi-experimental evidence from the army [0.03%]
提早退休有利于健康吗？军队中的准实验证据
Daniel Hallberg,Per Johansson,Malin Josephson
Daniel Hallberg
This paper studies empirically the consequences on health of an early retirement offer. To this end we use a targeted retirement offer to military officers 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented, the normal retirement ag...