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Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates and SO2

De Paula, Áureo; Halliday, Timothy J.; Lynham, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Kilauea volcano is the largest stationary source of SO2 pollution in the United States of America. Moreover, the SO2 that the volcano emits eventually forms particulate matter, another major pollutant. We use this exogenous source of pollution variation to estimate the impact of particulate...

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‘The Child is Father of the Man:’ Implications for the Demographic Transition

de la Croix, David; Licandro, Omar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We propose a new theory of the demographic transition based on the evidence that body development during childhood is an important predictor of adult life expectancy. Fertility, childhood development, longevity, education and income growth all result from individual decisions. Parents face a...

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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …

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Schooling and Youth Mortality: Learning from a Mass Military Exemption

Cipollone, Piero; Rosolia, Alfonso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several … schooling or lower mortality rates, thus excluding that the main findings reflect direct effects of military service on … subsequent mortality rather than a causal effect of schooling. We conclude that increasing the proportion of high school …

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The effect of audit regimes on applications for long-term care

Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas; Vriend, Sandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper studies the effects of various audit regimes, differing in the degree of control and the presence of performance incentives, on behavior of care providers filing applications for providing long-term care services to patients. We present evidence from a large-scale field experiment in...

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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...

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Sinking, Swimming, or Learning to Swim in Medicare Part D

Ketcham, Jonathan D.; Lucarelli, Claudio; Miravete, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Under Medicare Part D, senior citizens choose prescription drug insurance offred by numerous private insurers. We examine non-poor enrollees' actions in 2006 and 2007 using panel data. Our sample reduced overspending by $298 on average, with gains by 81% of them. The greatest improvements were...

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Water Nationalization: network access, water quality, and health outcomes

Borraz, Fernando; González, Nicolás; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

improvements in water quality. It was also accompanied by a decline in water-related child mortality, although this latter eect …

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Waiting Lists and Patient Selection

Barros, Pedro Luis Pita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We develop a model of waiting lists for public hospitals when physicians deliver both private and public treatment. Public treatment is free but rationed, i.e., only cases meeting some medical criteria are admitted for treatment. Private treatment has no waiting time but entails payment of a...

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Audit rates and compliance: A field experiment in long-term care

Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas; Vriend, Sandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We provide evidence from a large-scale field experiment on the causal effects of audit rules on compliance in a market for long-term care. In this setting care should be provided quickly and, therefore, the gatekeeper introduced ex-post auditing. Our results do not show significant effects of...

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