How do health insurer market concentration and bargaining power with hospitals affect health insurance premiums? [0.03%]
健康保险公司的市场集中度和与医院的议价能力如何影响健康保险保费？
Erin E Trish,Bradley J Herring
Erin E Trish
The US health insurance industry is highly concentrated, and health insurance premiums are high and rising rapidly. Policymakers have focused on the possible link between the two, leading to ACA provisions to increase insurer competition. H...
Environmental regulations on air pollution in China and their impact on infant mortality [0.03%]
中国关于空气污染的环境法规及其对婴儿死亡率的影响
Shinsuke Tanaka
Shinsuke Tanaka
This study explores the impact of environmental regulations in China on infant mortality. In 1998, the Chinese government imposed stringent air pollution regulations, in one of the first large-scale regulatory attempts in a developing count...
The effect of medical marijuana laws on adolescent and adult use of marijuana, alcohol, and other substances [0.03%]
医疗大麻法规对青少年和成人使用大麻、酒精及其他物质的影响
Hefei Wen,Jason M Hockenberry,Janet R Cummings
Hefei Wen
We estimate the effect of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) in ten states between 2004 and 2012 on adolescent and adult use of marijuana, alcohol, and other psychoactive substances. We find increases in the probability of current marijuana use,...
The intensive margin of technology adoption--Experimental evidence on improved cooking stoves in rural Senegal [0.03%]
技术采纳的强度边际——关于塞内加尔农村改进烹饪炉的实验证据
Gunther Bensch,Jörg Peters
Gunther Bensch
Today, almost 3 billion people in developing countries rely on biomass as primary cooking fuel, with profound negative implications for their well-being. Improved biomass cooking stoves are alleged to counteract these adverse effects. This ...
Randomized Controlled Trial
Journal of health economics. 2015 Jul:42:44-63. DOI:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.03.006 2015
Christopher J Ruhm
Christopher J Ruhm
Over the 1976-2010 period, total mortality shifted from strongly procyclical to being weakly or unrelated to macroeconomic conditions. The association is likely to be poorly measured when using short (less than 15 year) analysis periods. De...
Illoong Kwon,Daesung Jun
Illoong Kwon
Mandatory information disclosure may allow sellers to observe and respond to other sellers' attributes (seller peer effects) as well as informing consumers of the sellers' attributes (consumer learning effect). Using the data from mandatory...
Andrew D Foster,Yong Suk Lee
Andrew D Foster
Concerns about the quality of state-financed nursing home care has led to the wide-scale adoption by states of pass-through subsidies, in which Medicaid reimbursement rates are directly tied to staffing expenditure. We examine the effects o...
The role of marriage in the causal pathway from economic conditions early in life to mortality [0.03%]
经济状况早期生活对死亡率的影响路径中婚姻的作用
Gerard J van den Berg,Sumedha Gupta
Gerard J van den Berg
This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality. We use individual data from Dutch registers (years 1815-2000), combined with business cycle conditions in childhood as i...
Kyle Carlson
Kyle Carlson
I use new administrative data on mass layoffs and plant closings to study the effects of distressing economic news. Exposure to stressful events during pregnancy can impair fetal development. I find that announcement of impending job losses...
Understanding heterogeneity in the effects of birth weight on adult cognition and wages [0.03%]
认识出生体重对成人认知和工资影响的异质性
C Justin Cook,Jason M Fletcher
C Justin Cook
A large economics literature has shown long term impacts of birth weight on adult outcomes, including IQ and earnings that are often robust to sibling or twin fixed effects. We examine potential mechanisms underlying these effects by incorp...