Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 717
Cover Image
Insurance Expansions and Children’s Use of Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Hamersma, Sarah - 2018
specialty substance use disorder (SUD) treatment use among children ages 12 to 18. We examine both private and public expansions … State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Private expansions are generated by state laws that compel private …, lead to increases in admissions to treatment and increased insurance coverage among children in treatment. After public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453217
Cover Image
Do Higher-Priced Hospitals Deliver Higher-Quality Care?
Cooper, Zack; Doyle, Joseph J.; Graves, John A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze whether receiving care from higher-priced hospitals leads to lower mortality. We overcome selection issues by using an instrumental variable approach which exploits that ambulance companies are quasi-randomly assigned to transport patients and have strong preferences for certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938778
Cover Image
Estimating the Financial Impact of Gene Therapy in the U.S.
Wong, Chi Heem; Li, Dexin; Wang, Nina; Gruber, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We empirically assess the potential financial impact of future gene therapies on the US economy. After identifying 109 late-stage gene therapy clinical trials currently underway, we estimate the number of new and existing patients with corresponding diseases to be treated by these gene...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510507
Cover Image
(Re)scheduling Pollution Exposure : The Case of Surgery Schedules and Patient Mortality
Huang, Jialin; Xing, Jianwei; Zou, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many human activities can be strategically timed around forecastable natural hazards to mute their impacts. We study air pollution shock mitigation in a high-stakes healthcare setting: hospital surgery scheduling. Using newly available inpatient surgery records from a major city in China, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510586
Cover Image
The Effect of Medicaid on Care and Outcomes for Chronic Conditions : Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
Allen, Heidi; Baicker, Katherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Health insurance may play an important role not only in immediate access to care but in the management of chronic disease, which would have implications for long-run care needs as well as health outcomes. Such causal connections are often difficult to establish, but we use Oregon's 2008 Medicaid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660051
Cover Image
Do Policies to Increase Access to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Work?
Barrette, Eric; Dafny, Leemore S.; Shen, Karen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Even among commercially-insured individuals, opioid use disorder (OUD) is undertreated in the U.S.: nearly half receive no treatment within 6 months of a new diagnosis. Using a difference-in-differences specification exploiting the extension of insurance parity requirements for substance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599291
Cover Image
Career Effects of Mental Health
Biasi, Barbara; Dahl, Michael S.; Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper investigates the career effects of mental health, focusing on depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder (BD). Individual-level registry data from Denmark show that these disorders carry large earnings penalties, ranging from 34 percent for depression and 38 percent for BD to 74...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599321
Cover Image
The Effects of Becoming a Physician on Prescription Drug Use and Mental Health Treatment
Anderson, D. Mark; Diris, Ron; Montizaan, Raymond; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
There is evidence that physicians disproportionately suffer from substance use disorder and mental health problems. It is not clear, however, whether these phenomena are causal. We use data on Dutch medical school applicants to examine the effects of becoming a physician on prescription drug use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794564
Cover Image
Statistical Decision Properties of Imprecise Trials Assessing COVID-19 Drugs
Manski, Charles F. - 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, researchers are reporting findings of randomized trials comparing standard care with care augmented by experimental drugs. The trials have small sample sizes, so estimates of treatment effects are imprecise. Seeing imprecision, clinicians reading research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481487
Cover Image
Paying It Backward and Forward : Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design
Kominers, Scott Duke - 2020
COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) therapy is currently a leading treatment for COVID-19. At present, there is a shortage of CCP relative to demand. We develop and analyze a model of centralized CCP allocation that incorporates both donation and distribution. In order to increase CCP supply, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481726