counties. Nonetheless, there are no consistent effects of obstetric unit closure on maternal and infant health in the full … is a more consistent pattern of negative effects of closure on infant health. Importantly, the adoption of scope … implications for narrowing racial/ethnic disparities in health in response to obstetric unit closures …

There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …

Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health and the willingness to pay (WTP …) for medical technologies. However, the absence of empirical health risk preference estimates so far limits the … individual risk preference parameters over health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that shed light on health risk attitudes and …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

estimate the effect of the reversal of such a medical study on physician choices and infant health outcomes. Using the United … disadvantaged groups. However, we do not find that such a change in practice had significant impacts on infant health. Contrary to …

training affects worker sorting to firms, sample selection is no longer binary but is "multilayered". This paper extends the … canonical Heckman (1979) sample selection model - which assumes selection is binary - to a setting where it is multilayered, and …

transactions cost-mobility constraints. Contracts provide full unemployment insurance for risks that are diversifiable by pooling … among firms. Nondiversifiable (macro) risks are only partially shifted,largely through self-insurance (contingency saving …