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The value of pain relief
Furnée, Carina; Kemler, Marius; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001
This paper measures the value of functional capacity improvement from electronic pain treatment among a sample of Dutch workers with peripheral nerve injuries. Randomized clinical trial data and individual medical records from injured workers are compared with administrative data of healthy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402358
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Wages and the demand for health : a life cycle analysis
Dustmann, Christian; Windmeijer, Frank - 2000
This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand equations. We find evidence of negative transitory wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336871
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The economics of hospital trips and health care reform
Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
One cornerstone of current attempts to reform the German public health care system by introducing private insurance schemes is the assumption that economic incentives play an important role in individual decision-making about using medical help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294521
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Analyzing regional variation in health care utilization using (rich) household microdata
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009745665
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COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake
Karajvanov, Alexander K.; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2021
, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in provincial … Germany (around 3.5 mln) 11 to 16 weeks after the proof of vaccination mandate announcements. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012795392
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Out-of-pocket prescription drug expenditures and public prescription drug programs
Alan, Sule; Crossley, Thomas F.; Grootendorst, Paul V.; … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001744074
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Tournaments and multiple productive inputs : the case of performance enhancing drugs
Konrad, Kai A. (contributor) - 2005
In this paper I consider the desirability of drugs that enhance cognitive abilities in the context of tournaments that are used as optimal labor contracts as in Lazear and Rosen (1981). Such drugs reduce the number of voluntary participants in a tournament, but increase individual and total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003285387
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Climbing the drug staircase : a Bayesian analysis of the initiation of hard drug use
Bretteville-Jensen, Anne Line (contributor);  … - 2008
Empirical studies have found that cannabis commonly precedes consumption of drugs like amphetamine, ecstasy, cocaine and heroin. As a result a causal linkage between cannabis and subsequent hard drug use has been hypothesized. Despite mixed empirical evidence and a limited understanding of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784387
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What drives innovation? : lessons from COVID-19 R&D
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2021
To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430944
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Fertility and labor market responses to reductions in mortality
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; … - 2018
that occurred following a major medical innovation in the US. In response to the decline in child mortality, women delayed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893607