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Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821731
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Geographic and Racial Variation in Premature Mortality in the US: Analyzing the Disparities
Fuchs, Victor R.; Cullen, Mark R.; Cummins, Clint - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Life expectancy at birth, estimated from United States period life tables, has been shown to vary systematically and widely by region and race. We use the same tables to estimate the probability of survival from birth to age 70 (S70), a measure of mortality more sensitive to disparities and more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011188531
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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
to electricity and health care seem not to affect mortality on extremely hot days. Residential AC appears to be both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969229
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969284
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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
health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950832
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951269
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951278
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Social Impact Bonds in Nonprofit Health Care: New Product or New Package?
Pauly, Mark; Swanson, Ashley - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This note considers a relatively new form of financing for social services, the "Social Impact Bond." Proponents of Social Impact Bonds argue that they present a solution to several problems in funding social services, including performance measurement and the distribution of risk. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951420
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Uncovering Waste in U.S. Healthcare
Gruber, Jonathan; Doyle, Joseph; Graves, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
the three months following a health emergency do not have meaningfully better survival outcomes compared to hospitals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213649
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Health Care Adherence and Personalized Medicine
Philipson, Tomas; Egan, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Non-adherence in health care results when a patient does not initiate or continue care that a provider has recommended …. Previous research identifies non-adherence as a major source of waste in US health care, totaling approximately 2.3% of GDP …, and have proposed a plethora of interventions to raise adherence. However, health economics provides little explicit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274532