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Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap

Blau, Francine D. - 2001

institutions are responsible for an important portion of international differences in wage inequality, the inverse relationship … between the gender pay gap and male wage inequality suggests that wage-setting mechanisms, such as encompassing collective …

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Health at older ages : the causes and consequences of declining disability among the elderly

Cutler, David M. (ed.); Wise, David A. (contributor) - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003681819

A Satellite Account for Health in the United States

Cutler, David M. - 2020

Estimating medical care productivity is a central economic challenge. This paper develops a satellite account for the US health sector that appropriately measures health care productivity and applies that to the elderly population between 1999 and 2012. The central output of the satellite...

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The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances : The 20th Century United States

Cutler, David M. - 2004

Mortality rates in the US fell more rapidly during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries than any other period in American history. This decline coincided with an epidemiological transition and the disappearance of a mortality "penalty" associated with living in urban areas. There is little...

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The Contribution of Behavior Change and Public Health to Improved U.S. Population Health

Stewart, Susan T. - 2014

Adverse behavioral risk factors contribute to a large share of deaths. We examine the effects on life expectancy (LE) and quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) of changes in six major behavioral risk factors over the 1960-2010 period: smoking, obesity, heavy alcohol use, and unsafe use of...

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The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Healthcare Spending

Sahni, Nikhil; Stein, George; Zemmel, Rodney; Cutler, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify existing healthcare processes and create new, more efficient ones is a major topic of discussion in the industry. Yet healthcare lags other industries in AI adoption. In this paper, we estimate that wider adoption of AI could lead to...

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The Minimum Wage and Inequality Between Groups

Blau, Francine D.; Cohen, Isaac; Comey, Matthew L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … lower-tail inequality between men and women, Blacks and Whites, and Hispanics and Whites. We use estimates from three … empirical strategies -- two reduced-form, one structural -- to provide counterfactual simulations of between-group inequality …

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The changing hospital industry : comparing not-for-profit and for-profit institutions

Cutler, David M. (ed.) - 2000

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