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Exploring the Heterogeneous Effects of State Price Transparency Laws on Charge Prices, Negotiated Prices, and Operating Costs
Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2021
To limit the dramatic growth of U.S. health care expenditures, some states have mandated that medical providers publicly report their charge prices. Our study evaluates the heterogeneous effects of this price transparency policy. We use a comprehensive database that covers more than 2,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799648
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Recession Depression: Mental Health Effects of the 2008 Stock Market Crash
McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Nicholas, … - 2013
How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock market accumulations may not inform this question if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317019
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Exploring the Heterogeneous Effects of State Price Transparency Laws on Charge Prices, Negotiated Prices, and Operating Costs
Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2021
To limit the dramatic growth of U.S. health care expenditures, some states have mandated that medical providers publicly report their charge prices. Our study evaluates the heterogeneous effects of this price transparency policy. We use a comprehensive database that covers more than 2,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323968
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R&D-Driven Medical Progress, Health Care Costs, and the Future of Human Longevity
Böhm, Sebastian; Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2018
the expenditure share at the 2020 level by rationing access to health care severely reduces potential gains in health …, rationing is predicted to reduce potential gains of life-expectancy at age 65 by about 4 years in the year 2050. Generally, and … perhaps surprisingly, young individuals (i.e. those who save the most health care contributions through rationing) are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815790
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Acess to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival
Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - 2013
The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291889
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Evidence on Individual Preferences for Longevity Risk
Delprat, Gaëtan; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2013
the U.S. population. The questions we ask allow to find the distribution as well as to quantify the degree of risk … aversion with respect to the length of life in the population. We find evidence that roughly 75% of respondents were not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293908
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Biological Well-Being in Late 19th Century Philippines
Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Dovis, Marion; Komlos, John - 2015
This paper investigates the biological standard of living toward the end of Spanish rule. We investigate levels, trends, and determinants of physical stature from the birth cohorts of the 1860s to the 1890s using data on 23,000 Filipino soldiers enlisted by the U.S. military between 1901 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307105
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Nineteenth Century Weight in the United States: Revaluating Net Nutrition during Economic Development
Carson, Scott A. - 2015
Heights and body mass index values (BMIs) are now well accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic development and institutional change. This study uses 19th century weights instead of BMIs to measure factors associated with current net nutrition. Across the weight distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388162
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Mexican and Hispanic Net Nutrition in the 19th Century American West
Carson, Scott A. - 2015
When traditional methods for measuring economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, heights and BMIs are now well accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388232
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Optimal Social Insurance and Health Inequality
Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2015
This paper integrates into public economics a biologically founded, stochastic process of individual ageing. The novel approach enables us to investigate the interaction between health and retirement policy in order to quantitatively characterize the optimal joint design of the social insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388275