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Heutel, Garth; Ruhm, Christopher; Bradford, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We investigate the predictive power of survey-elicited time preferences using a representative sample of US residents. In regressions controlling for demographics and risk preferences, we show that the discount factor elicited from choice experiments using multiple price lists and real payments...

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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century

Barreca, Alan Irwin; Clay, Karen B.; Deschenes, Olivier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Adaptation is the only strategy that is guaranteed to be part of the world's climate strategy. Using the most comprehensive set of data files ever compiled on mortality and its determinants over the course of the 20th century, this paper makes two primary discoveries. First, we find that the...

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Empowering Women: The Effect of Schooling on Young Women's Knowledge and Use of Contraception

Grossman, Michael; Andalón, Mabel; Williams, Jenny - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order to identify the causal effect of schooling, we...

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Eliciting Maternal Expectations about the Technology of Cognitive Skill Formation

Cunha, Flavio; Elo, Irma; Culhane, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

affects the maternal choices of investments in the human capital of children. Unfortunately, the model is not identified from … respect to investments is between 4% and 19%. In comparison, when we estimate the technology of skill formation from the CNLSY … important question: What would happen to investments and child development if we implemented a policy that moved expectations …

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Moral Hazard and Less Invasive Medical Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease: The Case of Cigarette Smoking

Grossman, Michael; Margolis, Jesse; Hockenberry, Jason; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Over the last several decades, numerous medical studies have compared the effectiveness of two common procedures for Coronary Artery Disease: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). Most evidence indicates that CABG - the more invasive procedure - leads...

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The Contribution of Behavior Change and Public Health to Improved U.S. Population Health

Cutler, David M.; Stewart, Susan T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Adverse behavioral risk factors contribute to a large share of deaths. We examine the effects on life expectancy (LE) and quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) of changes in six major behavioral risk factors over the 1960-2010 period: smoking, obesity, heavy alcohol use, and unsafe use of...

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Aggregation and The Estimated Effects of Local Economic Conditions on Health

Lindo, Jason M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches to geographic aggregation. After reviewing the tradeoffs associated with more- and less-disaggregated analyses-including an investigation of the migratory response to changing...

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The Impact of Mothers' Earnings on Health Inputs and Infant Health

Mocan, Naci H.; Raschke, Christian; Unel, Bulent - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of mothers' earnings on birth weight and gestational age of infants. It also analyzes the impact of earnings on mothers' consumption of prenatal medical care, and their propensity to smoke and drink during pregnancy. The paper uses census-division- and...

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Information and Quality when Motivation is Intrinsic: Evidence from Surgeon Report Cards

Kolstad, Jonathan T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

If profit maximization is the objective of a firm, new information about quality should affect firm behavior only through its effects on market demand. I consider an alternate model in which suppliers are motivated by a desire to perform well in addition to profit. The introduction of quality...

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Should Hospitals Keep Their Patients Longer? The Role of Inpatient and Outpatient Care in Reducing Readmissions

Bartel, Ann P.; Chan, Carri W.; Song-Hee (Hailey) Kim - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Twenty percent of Medicare patients are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge, resulting in substantial costs to the U.S. government. As part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program financially penalizes hospitals with higher than expected...

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