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Lee Bounds With Multilayered Sample Selection
Kroft, Kory; Mourifié, Ismael; Vayalinkal, Atom - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper investigates the causal effect of job training on wage rates in the presence of firm heterogeneity. When … job training on wage rates across firms with a weighted-average of the contrast in wages between different firms for a … training on wage rates at each firm which leverage information on firm-specific wages. We illustrate our partial identification …
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Do Workers Undervalue COVID-19 Risk? Evidence from Wages and Death Certificate Data
Thanh Cong Gian; Gupta, Sumedha; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
COVID-19 era, but research to date has been sparse on how much of this increase reflects compensating wage differentials for … Occupational Injuries (CFOI) and wage data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) to examine whether compensating wage … mortality wage premiums imply that workers trade off money and mortality risk using a VSL of about $18 million, which is near …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015094873
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Does Consolidation in Insurer Markets affect Insurance Enrollment and Drug Expenditures? : Evidence from Medicare Part D
Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Jin, Tao; Wang, Yichuan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Since the inception of Medicare Part D in 2006, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and regulatory changes have led to increased concentration and reduced plan variety in the standalone prescription drug plan (PDP) portion of the market. We examine how this industry consolidation affects Medicare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512121
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Projected Health Benefits and Health Care Savings from the United States National Hepatitis C Elimination Initiative
Chhatwal, Jagpreet; Aaron, Alec; Zhong, Huaiyang; Sood, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The national hepatitis C elimination initiative provides an opportunity to dramatically expand access to hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment and put the US on a path to eliminating hepatitis C. Our objective was to project the health benefits and cost savings of this initiative. A previously...
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Beyond Burnout : from Measuring to Forecasting
Blackburn, Bart; Chan, Tiffany; Cherot, Elizabeth; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Burnout of physicians and other medical personnel is a major problem in the economics of healthcare systems, potentially costing billions of dollars. Knowledge of the determinants and costs of burnout at the organization level is sparse, making it difficult to assess the net benefits of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537787
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Maternal and Infant Health Inequality : New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data
Kennedy-Moulton, Kate; Miller, Sarah; Persson, Petra; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use linked administrative data that combines the universe of California birth records, hospitalizations, and death records with parental income from Internal Revenue Service tax records and the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics file to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462741
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Lives vs. Livelihoods : The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare
Finkelstein, Amy; Notowidigdo, Matthew J.; Schilbach, Frank - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We leverage spatial variation in the severity of the Great Recession across the United States to examine its impact on mortality and to explore implications for the welfare consequences of recessions. We estimate that an increase in the unemployment rate of the magnitude of the Great Recession...
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The Effects of Medical Debt Relief : Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
Kluender, Raymond; Mahoney, Neale; Wong, Francis; Yin, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Two in five Americans have medical debt, nearly half of whom owe at least $2,500. Concerned by this burden, governments and private donors have undertaken large, high-profile efforts to relieve medical debt. We partnered with RIP Medical Debt to conduct two randomized experiments that relieved...
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The Chronic Disease Index : Analyzing Health Inequalities Over the Lifecycle
Danesh, Kaveh; Kolstad, Jonathan; Parker, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The rich live longer than the poor, but relatively little is known about the evolution of health inequality across the lifecycle. Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we develop an index of chronic disease burden based on the projected contribution to old-age mortality. Chronic...
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Effects of Childhood Cognitive and Behavioral Disabilities on Adult Economic Outcomes
Corman, Hope; Noonan, Kelly; Reichman, Nancy E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, employment, wages, and access to transportation and credit in adulthood, using household fixed effects models to control for …
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