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Firms' Sickness Costs and Workers' Sickness Absences
Böheim, René - 2014
In many countries, social security insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. The insurance may create a moral hazard for firms, leading to inefficient monitoring of absences or to an underinvestment in the prevention of absences. We exploit an administrative threshold in the...
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Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men : Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change
Costa, Dora L. - 2000
innovations in medical care, 37 percent to reduced chronic disease rates, and the remainder is unexplained. The portion due to … reduced chronic disease rates can be subdivided into the 9 percent accounted for by reduced infectious disease rates …
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The Psychosocial Effects of the Flint Water Crisis on School-Age Children
Trejo, Sam; Yeomans-Maldonado, Gloria; Jacob, Brian Aaron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Lead poisoning has well-known impacts for the developing brain of young children, with a large literature documenting the negative effects of elevated blood lead levels on academic and behavioral outcomes. In April of 2014, the municipal water source in Flint, Michigan was changed, causing lead...
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Providing Vouchers and Value Information for Already Free Eye Exams Increases Uptake Among a Low-Income Minority Population : A Randomized Trial
Kacker, Seema; Macis, Mario; Gajwani, Prateek; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-up appointments in a low-income minority population in Baltimore City referred for possible eye disease. Between May 2017 and …
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Effects of Opioid-Related Policies on Opioid Utilization, Nature of Medical Care, and Duration of Disability
Neumark, David; Savych, Bogdan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the effects of must-access prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) and recent regulations limiting the duration of initial opioid prescriptions on care received by patients with work-related injuries, focusing on opioid utilization and medical care related to pain management. We...
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The Anatomy of U.S. Sick Leave Schemes : Evidence from Public School Teachers
Cronin, Christopher J.; Harris, Matthew C.; Ziebarth, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies how U.S. employees use paid sick leave. The most common U.S. sick-leave schemes operate as individualized credit accounts---paid leave is earned over time and unused leave accumulates, producing an employee-specific "leave balance." We construct a unique administrative dataset...
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Germs in the Family : The Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Endemic Respiratory Disease Spread
Daysal, N. Meltem; Ding, Hui; Rossin-Slater, Maya; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
through which infants become infected by respiratory illnesses, as well as the consequences of early-life respiratory disease …-municipality variation in respiratory disease prevalence among preschool-aged children to identify differential long-term impacts of early … disease prevalence distribution ("disease index") is associated with a 30.9 percent differential increase in the number of …
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Treatment Decision-Making in Catastrophic Illness
Warner, Kenneth E. - 1976
It is well established that the social and economic environment of medical care distinguishes its provision from that of other goods and services. While scholars have studied the influences of this idiosyncratic environment, there is relatively little empirical knowledge about how it affects...
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Urgent Care Centers and the Demand for Non-Emergent Emergency Department Visits
Allen, Lindsay - 2019
Urgent care centers (UCCs) are a cost-efficient substitute to the emergency department (ED) for non-emergent conditions, but no study has identified their impact on ED demand. We address this gap using a novel strategy that exploits daily UCC operating times in a differencing framework. After...
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Understanding the Correlation between Alzheimer’s Disease Polygenic Risk, Wealth, and the Composition of Wealth Holdings
Shin, Su H. - 2019
We investigate how the genetic risk of developing Alzheimer's Disease (AD) relates to saving behavior. Using nationally …, but is not causally related to older individuals' wealth holdings. People with higher Alzheimer's Disease polygenic risk …) they know their polygenic risk of developing Alzheimer's Disease and related dementia, (ii) they have lower cognitive …
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