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Does Cost Sharing really Reduce Inappropriate Prescriptions?

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Gemmill-Toyama, Marin - CESifo - 2010

This paper explores different empirical strategies to examine the effect of cost sharing for prescription drugs in some dimensions of medication-related quality, namely the probability of inappropriate prescription drug use among United States seniors. Using data from 1996 to 2005, we explore...

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Do Minimum Legal Tobacco Purchase Age Laws Work?

Yörük, Ceren Ertan; Yörük, Baris K. - CESifo - 2014

This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impact of the minimum legal tobacco purchase age (MLTPA) laws on smoking behavior among young adults. Using data from the confidential version of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997 Cohort), which contains information on...

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Do they Know what's at Risk? Health Risk Perception among the Obese

Winter, Joachim; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - CESifo - 2012

The perception of disease risks and risky health behaviors are closely associated. In this paper, we investigate the …

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Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek Famine

Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - CESifo - 2010

This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...

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Statures, BMIs, and Weight: A Reassessment

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2013

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

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Acess to Treatment and Educational Inequalities in Cancer Survival

Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - CESifo - 2013

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …

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Universal Coverage on a Budget: Impacts on Health Care Utilization and Out-Of-Pocket Expenditures in Thailand

Limwattananon, Supon; Neelsen, Sven; O'Donnell, Owen; … - CESifo - 2013

We estimate the impact on health care utilization and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of a major reform in Thailand … that extended health insurance to one-quarter of the population to achieve universal coverage while keeping health spending … health care, while spending at the very top of the OOP distribution was reduced by one-half representing substantial …

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The Cost of Binge Drinking

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - CESifo - 2015

We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...

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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2015

endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the …

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Nineteenth Century Black and White US Statures: The Primary Sources of Vitamin D and their Relationship with Height

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2008

Vitamin D is vital in all vertebrates because it allows them to absorb more calcium from their diets, contributing to stronger skeletal systems and stature growth. Using a new source of 19th century US state prison records, this study contrasts the statures of comparable African-Americans and...

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