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Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Well-being
Blanchflower, David G. - 2020
union membership and employee job satisfaction is positive and statistically significant. This runs counter to findings in … United States we show the association between union membership and job satisfaction switched from negative to positive in the … between membership and job satisfaction is apparent in cohorts born in the 1940s and 1950s but turns positive for those born …
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Lock-downs, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2020
their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases … most with additional time spent with spouse. Among singles, satisfaction decreases most as more time is spent alone …
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Pricing Heart Attack Treatments
Cutler, David M. - 1999
In this paper, we estimate price indices for heart attack treatments, demonstrating the techniques that are currently used in official price indices and presenting some alternatives. We consider two types of price indices, a Service Price Index, which prices specific treatments provided, and a...
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A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care : Wasted Tests, Missed Heart Attacks and Mis-Predictions
Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2019
We use machine learning to better characterize low-value health care and the decisions that produce it. We focus on costly tests, specifically for heart attack (acute coronary syndromes). A test is only useful if it yields new information, so efficient testing is grounded in accurate prediction...
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The Effect of the Economic Collapse in Iceland on the Probability of Cardiovascular Events
Birgisdóttir, Kristín H. - 2018
We explore whether the 2008 economic collapse in Iceland and subsequent economic crisis affected the probability of ischemic heart disease (IHD) events, independent of regular cyclical effects attributed to typical economic conditions. We estimate linear probability models using administrative...
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Top-up Design and Health Care Expenditure : Evidence from Cardiac Stents
Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2020
Since 2006, Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) covers the full cost of baseline treatment in cardiac stents (bare-metal stents, BMS), but requires patients to pay the incremental cost of more expensive treatments (drug-eluting stents, DES). Within this "top-up" design, we study how...
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Education Gradients in Mortality Trends by Gender and Race
Leive, Adam A.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine gender and race differences in education-mortality trends among 25-64 year olds in the United States from 2001-2018. The data indicate that the relationships are heterogeneous with larger mortality reductions for less educated non-Hispanic blacks than other races and mixed results at...
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Does Decreased Access to Emergency Departments Affect Patient Outcomes? Analysis of AMI Population 1996-2005
Shen, Yu-Chu - 2011
We analyze whether decreased emergency department access (measured by increased driving time to the nearest ED) results in adverse patient outcomes or changes in the patient health profile for patients suffering from acute myocardial infarction. Data sources include 100% Medicare Provider...
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Public-Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
Carpenter, Christopher - 2010
Public-place smoking restrictions are the most important non-price tobacco control measures worldwide, yet surprisingly little is known about their effects on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). We study these laws in Canada using data with questions about respondents' ETS exposure in...
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The Short-Term Mortality Consequences of Income Receipt
Evans, William N. - 2009
Many studies find that households increase their consumption after the receipt of expected income payments, a result inconsistent with the life-cycle/permanent income hypothesis. Consumption can increase adverse health events, such as traffic accidents, heart attacks and strokes. In this paper,...
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