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Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment: Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem
Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased)...
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Subjective Health Assessments and Active Labor Market Participation of Older Men: Evidence from a Semiparametric Binary Choice Model with Nonadditive Correlated Individual-Specific...
Maurer, Jürgen; Klein, Roger; Vella, Francis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We use panel data from the US Health and Retirement Study 1992-2002 to estimate the effect of self-assessed health limitations on active labor market participation of men around retirement age. Self-assessments of health and functioning typically introduce an endogeneity bias when studying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703212
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Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Échevin, Damien; Fortin, Bernard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk … introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed … patients' health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period. At the empirical level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884181
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Mental Illness and Unhappiness
Layard, Richard; Chisholm, Dan; Patel, Vikram; Saxena, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper is a contribution to the second World Happiness Report. It makes five main points. 1. Mental health is the biggest single predictor of life-satisfaction. This is so in the UK, Germany and Australia even if mental health is included with a six-year lag. It explains more of the variance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884297
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Does Uninsurance Affect the Health Outcomes of the Insured? Evidence from Heart Attack Patients in California
Daysal, N. Meltem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper, I examine the impact of uninsured patients on the health of the insured, focusing on one health outcome … – the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and … hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an economically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279323
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Spillover Effects of Drug Safety Warnings on Health Behavior
Daysal, N. Meltem; Orsini, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) – the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health – which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279331
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Link between Pay for Performance Incentives and Physician Payment Mechanisms: Evidence from the Diabetes Management Incentive in Ontario
Kantarevic, Jasmin; Kralj, Boris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Pay for performance (P4P) incentives for physicians are generally designed as additional payments that can be paired … find that physicians in a blended capitation model are more responsive to the DMI than physicians in an enhanced fee …
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High on Life? Medical Marijuana Laws and Suicide
Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent reduction in the total suicide rate, an 11 percent reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422065
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The Effectiveness of Health Screening
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional variations in the intensity of exposure to supply-determined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646336
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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Youth Body Composition
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as measured by percentage body fat (PBF) and to assess the sensitivity of these effects to using conventional measures of youth obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge...
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