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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health Among Older Intra-European Migrants
Constant, Amelie F. - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822692
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Patient vs. Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care
Hackmann, Martin Benjamin; Pohl, R. Vincent - 2018
How do patient and provider incentives affect mode and cost of long-term care? Our analysis of 1 million nursing home … community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second, nursing homes shorten Medicaid stays when capacity binds to admit more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957189
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Patient vs. Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care
Hackmann, Martin B. - 2019
How do patient and provider incentives affect mode and cost of long-term care? Our analysis of 1 million nursing home … community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second, nursing homes shorten Medicaid stays when capacity binds to admit more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892213
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Diabetes and Labor Market Exits: Evidence from the Health & Retirement Study (HRS)
Chatterji, Pinka; Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal - 2016
The objective of this paper is to estimate the effect of diabetes on labor market exit using longitudinal data from the 1992-2010 Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We estimate a discrete time hazard model to test whether diabetes affects the hazard of leaving employment among individuals who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451453
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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health among Older Intra-European Migrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Milewski, Nadja - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314838
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744998
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Demand patterns for treatment insurance in Norway
Aarbu, Karl Ove - 2010
In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public … health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private health care … market. These health care services are obtained normally through insurance contracts. In this paper, I seek explanations for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270504
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Behavioral Responses to Supply-Side Drug Policy During the Opioid Epidemic
Balestra, Simone; Liebert, Helge; Maestas, Nicole; … - 2022
We investigate behavioral responses to a staggered disruption in the supply of prescription opioids across U.S. states: the introduction of electronic Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs). Using administrative datasets, we find PDMPs curtail the proliferation of prescription opioids....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266669
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Physician Effects in Antibiotic Prescribing: Evidence from Physician Exits
Huang, Shan; Ullrich, Hannes - 2021
consumption without compromising health care quality poses one of the most important global health policy challenges. A crucial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657910
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Dark Passage: Mental Health Consequences of Parental Death
Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher - 2021
This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide register-based data for Finnish citizens born between 1971 and 1986, we use an event study methodology to analyze hospitalization for mental health-related reasons by the age of 30....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582162