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Pragmatic cancer screening trials mimic real-world scenarios in which patients and doctors are the ultimate arbiters of treatment. Intention-to-screen (ITS) analyses of such trials maintain randomization-based apples-to-apples comparisons, but differential adherence (the failure of subjects...
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birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from … favorably to policies that target maternal health, and could have a small, lasting effect on long-run outcomes …
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There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …
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China Family Panel Studies and leveraging the variation around the pensionable age cutoff, we find substantial increases in … multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health … behaviors, report enhanced self-perceived health, perceive higher relative income and social status, and exude greater …
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Financial incentives have been shown to have strong positive short-run effects for problematic health behaviors, but …
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We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and individual fixed effects models to measure the impact of the...
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of improved health, education and living standards, increased urban residence, delayed fertility, and greater use of … health care in the parent generation contributed to the reduction. The results provide evidence for meaningful … intergenerational benefits of child health investments …
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Adolescent Health (Add Health), adults aged 25-34 and their high school best friends are focused on. An instrumental variable …
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. The three key factors determining whether the introduction of a harm reduction method reduces or worsens health harms are …
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their health care and behaviors. We leverage a natural experiment in Chile's public healthcare system that sent reminders … national administrative patient-level data, we show that reminders increased preventative care visits, which led to more health …
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