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Using the 2006-07 American Time Use Survey and its Eating and Health Module, I show that over half of adult Americans … report grazing (secondary eating/drinking) on a typical day, with grazing time almost equaling primary eating/drinking time …. An economic model predicts that higher wage rates (price of time) will lead to substitution of grazing for primary eating …
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This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … physician, who offers a wide range of primary healthcare services that are free-of-charge. Furthermore, these services are … and over time. Our estimates indicate that the FMP caused large declines in mortality rates across all age groups with …
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markets, are less likely to provide charity care, increase the quantity of healthcare provided, and become more selective of …
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This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions …. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), introduced in 2005, provided a wide-range of primary healthcare services, free of … exploit the staggered rollout of the FMP implementation across Turkish provinces over time using a difference …
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to infectious ones. These results highlight the need for cautious AI integration in healthcare systems to ensure quality …
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We study the effects of losing insurance on behavioral health - mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) - community hospitalizations. We leverage variation in public insurance eligibility offered by a large-scale Medicaid disenrollment. Losing insurance decreased SUD-related...
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We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...
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We study the impact of a mixed capitation model known as the Family Health Organization (FHO) on selected quality and quantity outcomes relative to an enhanced fee-for-service model known as the Family Health Group (FHG) among primary care physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of...
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Managing rapid population growth and spurring economic growth are among the most pressing policy challenges for Sub-Saharan Africa. We discuss the links between them and investigate the potential of family planning programs to address these challenges. Specifically, we estimate the impact of...
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This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the...
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