Randall P Ellis,Shenyi Jiang,Willard G Manning
Randall P Ellis
We examine the efficiency-based arguments for second-best optimal health insurance with multiple treatment goods and multiple time periods. Correlated shocks across health care goods and over time interact with complementarity and substitut...
Do maximum waiting times guarantees change clinical priorities for elective treatment? Evidence from Scotland [0.03%]
最长等待时间承诺会改变临床治疗优先次序吗？苏格兰的证据
Silviya Nikolova,Arthur Sinko,Matt Sutton
Silviya Nikolova
The level and distribution of patient waiting times for elective treatment are a major concern in publicly funded health care systems. Strict targets, which have specified maximum waiting times, have been introduced in the NHS over the last...
The price elasticity of demand for heroin: Matched longitudinal and experimental evidence [0.03%]
海洛因需求的价格弹性：纵向匹配和实验证据
Todd A Olmstead,Sheila M Alessi,Brendan Kline et al.
Todd A Olmstead et al.
This paper reports estimates of the price elasticity of demand for heroin based on a newly constructed dataset. The dataset has two matched components concerning the same sample of regular heroin users: longitudinal information about real-w...
Dave E Marcotte
Dave E Marcotte
Seasonal pollen allergies affect approximately 1 in 5 school age children. Clinical research has established that these allergies result in large and consistent decrements in cognitive functioning, problem solving ability and speed, focus a...
Does prescription drug coverage improve mental health? Evidence from Medicare Part D [0.03%]
关于医疗保险D部分的经验证据：处方药物保险能改善精神健康吗？
Padmaja Ayyagari,Dan M Shane
Padmaja Ayyagari
The introduction of the Medicare Prescription Drug program (Part D) in 2006 resulted in a significant increase in access to coverage for older adults in the U.S. Several studies have documented the impact of this program on prescription dru...
Where have all the young men gone? Using sex ratios to measure fetal death rates [0.03%]
男孩去哪儿了？利用性别比测算婴儿死亡率
Nicholas J Sanders,Charles Stoecker
Nicholas J Sanders
Fetal health is an important consideration in policy formation. Unfortunately, a complete census of fetal deaths, an important measure of overall fetal health, is infeasible, and available data are selectively observed. We consider this iss...
Melissa S Kearney,Phillip B Levine
Melissa S Kearney
We investigate trends in the U.S. rate of teen childbearing between 1981 and 2010, focusing specifically on the sizable decline since 1991. We focus on establishing the role of state-level demographic changes, economic conditions, and targe...
Norma B Coe,Meghan M Skira,Courtney Harold Van Houtven
Norma B Coe
We examine whether long-term care (LTC) experience helps explain the low demand for long-term care insurance (LTCI). We test if expectations about future informal care receipt, expectations about inheritance receipt, and LTCI purchase decis...
Did the Affordable Care Act's dependent coverage mandate increase premiums? [0.03%]
平价医疗法案的成年子女延缴条款提高了保费吗？
Briggs Depew,James Bailey
Briggs Depew
We investigate the impact of the Affordable Care Act's dependent coverage mandate on insurance premiums. The expansion of dependent coverage under the ACA allows young adults to remain on their parent's private health insurance plans until ...
Who joins the network? Physicians' resistance to take budgetary co-responsibility [0.03%]
谁在加入？医生对承担预算联合责任的抵制
Maurus Rischatsch
Maurus Rischatsch
Managed Care (MC) is expected to provide health care at a lower cost than conventional provision. Therefore, Switzerland intends to promote MC by forcing health insurers to write MC contracts and introducing budgetary co-responsibility for ...