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Health workers' behavior, patient reporting and reputational concerns : lab-in-the-field experimental evidence from Kenya

Mbiti, Isaac; Serra, Danila - 2018

reporting in Kenyan health clinics. We recruit patients and health care providers from public and private health clinics to play … a series of modified Trust Games. In the game, patients can send money to providers, who are then able to reciprocate …. Patients can then file complaints if they are unhappy with the provider's level of reciprocity. We examine patient and provider …

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Economic conditions at birth, birth weight, ability, and the causal path to cardiovascular mortality

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Modin, Bitte - 2013

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

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Money for health : the compensating variation of cardiovascular diseases

Groot, Wim; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte; Plug, … - 2002

This paper introduces a new method to calculate the extent to which individuals are willing to trade money for improvements in their health status. An individual welfare function of income (WFI) is applied to calculate the compensating income variation of health impairments. We believe that this...

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Side effects of labor market policies

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2020

sanctions cause a short-run deterioration of mental health, possibly due higher stress levels, but this tapers out quickly. …

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Does education reduce the risk of hypertension? : estimating the biomarker effect of compulsory schooling in England

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2010

This paper estimates the exogenous effect of schooling on reduced incidence of hypertension. Using the changes in the minimum school-leaving age law in the United Kingdom from age 14 to 15 in 1947, and from age 15 to 16 in 1973, as sources of exogenous variation in schooling, the regression...

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SES health gradients during the epidemiological transition : the case of China

Lei, Xiaoyan; Yin, Nina; Zhao, Yaohui - 2010

, and to raise the quality of health care so that patients receive proper diagnoses and guidance on how to treat and control …

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Natural experiment evidence on the effect of migration on blood pressure and hypertension

Gibson, John K.; Stillman, Steven; McKenzie, David J.; … - 2010

Over 200 million people live outside their country of birth and experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous because of the potential for selfselection bias. In this...

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Does uninsurance affect the health outcomes of the insured? : evidence from heart attack patients in California

Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012

In this paper, I examine the impact of uninsured patients on the health of the insured, focusing on one health outcome … - the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and … hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an economically …

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Cardiovascular consequences of unfair pay

Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo Emilio; … - 2011

heart rate variability. The latter is an indicator of stress-related impaired cardiac autonomic control, which has been …

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Ambient temperature during gestation and cold-related adult mortality in a Swedish cohort, 1915 to 2002

Bruckner, Tim A.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Smith, Kirk R.; … - 2014

For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...

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