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Do Dutch Dentists Extract Monopoly Rents?
Ketel, Nadine - 2018
22 years after the lottery, we find that in most years after graduation dentists earn around 50,000 Euros more than they … outcomes. The natural explanation is that Dutch dentists extract a monopoly rent, which we attribute to the limited supply of … dentists in the Netherlands. We discuss policies to curtail this rent …
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Fatal Fluctuations? Cyclicality in Infant Mortality in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality at most ages is pro-cyclical but similar analyses for poorer countries are scarce, and both income risk and...
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Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life : Problems and Prospects
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2006
Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarized in the value of a statistical life (VSL), a measure that is widely used for the evaluation of public policies in medicine, the environment, and transportation safety. This paper demonstrates the widespread use of this...
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The Health Costs of Coal-Fired Power Plants in India
Barrows, Geoffrey - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of coal-fired power plants on infant mortality in India. We find that a one GW increase in coal-fired capacity corresponds to a 14% increase in infant mortality rates in districts near versus far from the plant site. This effect is 2-3 times larger than estimates...
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How Do Low-Income Enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces Respond to Cost-Sharing?
Lavetti, Kurt - 2019
The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the value of CSRs that are solely...
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The Life Expectancy of Older Couples and Surviving Spouses
Compton, Janice - 2019
Comparisons of individual life expectancies over time and across demographic groups provide information for individuals making retirement decisions and for policy makers. For couples, analogous measures are the expected years both spouses will be alive (joint life expectancy) and the expected...
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Do-it-Yourself Medicine? The Impact of Light Cannabis Liberalization on Prescription Drugs
Carrieri, Vincenzo - 2020
Governments worldwide are increasingly concerned about the booming CBD (cannabidiol) products. However, little is known about the impact of their liberalization. We study a unique case of unintended liberalization of a CBD-based product (light cannabis) that occurred in Italy in 2017. Using...
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Does the Marginal Hospitalization Save Lives? The Case of Respiratory Admissions for the Elderly
Currie, Janet - 2020
Some commentators estimate that up to a third of U.S. medical spending may be wasted. This study focuses on the decision to hospitalize elderly Medicare patients who present at the emergency room (ER) with respiratory conditions. Failing to hospitalize sick patients could have dire consequences....
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Changes in Healthcare Utilization, Spending, and Perceived Health During Covid–19 : A Longitudinal Study from Singapore
Ahn, SangNam - 2020
The COVID–19 pandemic has challenged the capacity of healthcare systems around the world and can potentially compromise healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative middle-aged and older Singaporeans, we...
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Healthcare Utilization at Retirement : The Role of the Opportunity Cost of Time
Lucifora, Claudio - 2018
We investigate the causal impact of retirement on healthcare utilization using SHARE data for 10 European countries. We show that the number of doctor's visits and the probability of visiting a doctor more than four times a year (our measures of healthcare utilization) increase after retirement....
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