Physician responses to rising local unemployment rates: Healthcare provision to Medicare and privately insured patients [0.03%]
医师对当地失业率上升的反应：向 Medicare 和私人保险患者的医疗服务提供
Daifeng He,Melissa McInerney,Jennifer Mellor
Daifeng He
Prior studies suggest that hospital care is countercyclical among Medicare beneficiaries, and if anything, procyclical among the non-elderly. In this paper, we provide the first physician-level analysis of changes in healthcare provision to...
Jason M Lindo
Jason M Lindo
This paper considers the relationship between economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches to geographic aggregation. After reviewing the tradeoffs associated with more- and less-disaggregated analyses, I update earli...
Medicaid expansions for the working age disabled: Revisiting the crowd-out of private health insurance [0.03%]
工作年龄残疾人 Medicaid 扩容：重新审视私营健康保险的被排挤现象
Kathryn L Wagner
Kathryn L Wagner
Disabled individuals under 65 years old account for 15% of Medicaid recipients but half of all Medicaid spending. Despite their large cost, few studies have investigated the effects of Medicaid expansions for disabled individuals on insuran...
Impacts of the Affordable Care Act dependent coverage provision on health-related outcomes of young adults [0.03%]
《平价医疗法案》的子女保险条款对年轻人健康结果的影响
Silvia Barbaresco,Charles J Courtemanche,Yanling Qi
Silvia Barbaresco
The first major insurance expansion of the Affordable Care Act - a provision requiring insurers to allow dependents to remain on parents' health insurance until turning 26 - took effect in September 2010. We estimate this mandate's impacts ...
Hungry today, unhappy tomorrow? Childhood hunger and subjective wellbeing later in life [0.03%]
童年饥饿与成年后主观幸福感之间的关系
Marco Bertoni
Marco Bertoni
I use anchoring vignettes to show that, on data for eleven European countries, exposure to episodes of hunger in childhood leads people to adopt lower subjective standards to evaluate satisfaction with life in adulthood. I also show that, a...
The heterogeneity of concentrated prescribing behavior: Theory and evidence from antipsychotics [0.03%]
集中处方行为的异质性：来自抗精神病药物的理论与证据
Ernst R Berndt,Robert S Gibbons,Anton Kolotilin et al.
Ernst R Berndt et al.
We present two new findings based on annual antipsychotic US prescribing data from IMS Health on 2867 psychiatrists who wrote 50 or more prescriptions in 2007. First, many of these psychiatrists have prescription patterns that are statistic...
Public health insurance and disparate eligibility of spouses: The Medicare eligibility gap [0.03%]
公共健康保险与配偶资格的差异性：医疗保险资格缺口
Allison Witman
Allison Witman
I exploit the age-based eligibility structure of Medicare and the age gap between spouses to examine the impact of Medicare eligibility of an older spouse on the insurance coverage of younger, Medicare-ineligible spouses. Using a regression...
Using provider performance incentives to increase HIV testing and counseling services in Rwanda [0.03%]
利用绩效激励促进卢旺达HIV检测咨询业务的发展
Damien de Walque,Paul J Gertler,Sergio Bautista-Arredondo et al.
Damien de Walque et al.
Paying for performance provides financial rewards to medical care providers for improvements in performance measured by utilization and quality of care indicators. In 2006, Rwanda began a pay for performance scheme to improve health service...
Access to health insurance and the use of inpatient medical care: evidence from the Affordable Care Act young adult mandate [0.03%]
健康保险获取与住院医疗服务利用：来自平价医疗法案青年 mandates 的证据
Yaa Akosa Antwi,Asako S Moriya,Kosali I Simon
Yaa Akosa Antwi
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 expanded coverage to young adults by allowing them to remain on their parent's private health insurance until they turn 26 years old. While there is evidence on insurance effects, we know very little about us...
Geir Godager,Tor Iversen,Ching-to Albert Ma
Geir Godager
We study gatekeeping physicians' referrals of patients to specialty care. We derive theoretical results when competition in the physician market intensifies. First, due to competitive pressure, physicians refer patients to specialty care mo...