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Deza, Monica; Thanh Lu; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the impact of losing health insurance on criminal activity by leveraging one of the most substantial Medicaid disenrollments in U.S. history, which occurred in Tennessee in 2005 and lead to 190,000 non-elderly and non-disabled adults without dependents unexpectedly losing coverage....

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Direct and Spillover Effects of Provider Vaccination Facilitation

Cullen, Julie Berry; Humlum, Maria Knoth; Suziedelyte, Agne - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We explore the role that physicians play in moderating compliance with recommended vaccinations. Using administrative …

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Vaccination Policy, Delayed Care, and Health Expenditures

Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Fu, Wei; Liu, Chia-Lun; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the United States healthcare system, resulting in major disruptions in the delivery of essential care and causing crippling financial losses that threaten the viability of millions of medical practices. There is little empirical evidence on the types...

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Encouraging Preventative Care to Manage Chronic Disease at Scale

Boone, Claire E.; Celhay, Pablo A.; Gertler, Paul J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study how reminding high-risk patients with chronic disease of their upcoming primary care appointments impacts their health care and behaviors. We leverage a natural experiment in Chile's public healthcare system that sent reminders before preventative care appointments to over 300,000...

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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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Overconfidence and Technology Adoption in Health Care

Comin, Diego; Skinner, Jonathan; Staiger, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Variation in technology adoption is a key driver of differences in productivity. Previous studies sought to explain variations in technology adoption by heterogeneity in profitability, costs of adoption, or other factors. Less is known about how adoption is affected by bias in the perceived...

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Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization : The Role of Physicians

Badinski, Ivan; Finkelstein, Amy; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that … separates variation in average utilization of Medicare beneficiaries due to physicians, non-physician supply side factors, and … patient demand. The model is identified by migration of patients and physicians across areas, as well as by variation in …

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Do Patients Value High-Quality Medical Care? Experimental Evidence from Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment

López, Carolina; Sautmann, Anja; Schaner, Simone - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Can information about the value of diagnostic tests improve provider practice and help patients recognize higher quality of care? In a randomized experiment at public clinics in Mali, health providers and patients received tailored information about the importance of rapid diagnostic tests...

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Obstetric Unit Closures and Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Health

Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Wu, Xue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper examines whether loss of locally available hospital-based obstetric services affects racial/ethnic disparities in intrapartum care access and birth outcomes in rural areas of the US. To conduct causal inference, we combine difference-in-difference and propensity score matching methods...

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Heterogeneity in Disease Resistance and the Impact of Antibiotics in the US

Cook, C. Justin; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We hypothesize that the impact of antibiotics is moderated by a population's inherent (genetic) resistance to infectious disease. Using the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937, we show that US states that are more genetically susceptible to infectious disease saw larger declines in their...

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