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Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2014

health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and medical innovation. Our first set of regressions include a set of … health spending has a significant and mild effect on health outcomes, even after controlling for medical innovation. However …, its short-run adjustments do not seem to have an impact on health care productivity. Spatial spill overs in life …

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Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms : Empirical Evidence from Europe

Van Roy, Vincent - 2015

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

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Corporate Disclosure, Compliance and Consequences : Evidence from Russia

Banerjee, Suman; Estrin, Saul; Pal, Sarmistha - 2022

Does the introduction of corporate transparency and disclosure rules in emerging economies affect compliance, and therefore earnings quality and firm performance? We explore these questions for an important emerging economy, Russia, using a natural experiment, the 2002 introduction of Russian...

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Patients Whose GP Knows Complementary Medicine Tend to Have Lower Costs and Live Longer

Kooreman, Peter - 2011

Health economists have largely ignored complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as an area of research, although both clinical experiences and several empirical studies suggest cost-effectiveness of CAM. The objective of this paper is to explore the cost-effectiveness of CAM compared to...

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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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Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure

Liu, Hong - 2012

. This result is robust to various specifications and multiple estimation strategies. However, there is no evidence that it …

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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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Community-Based Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending in Africa : Evidence from Rwanda

Woldemichael, Andinet - 2016

In the absence of third party and prepayment systems such as health insurance and tax-based healthcare financing, households in many low-income countries are exposed to the financial risks of paying large medical bills from out-of-pocket. In recent years, community based health insurance schemes...

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Price and Saliency in Health Care : When Can Targeted Nudges Change Behaviors?

Walker, Brigham - 2021

This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health services. A large employer e-mailed individually-targeted health education encouraging high-value care to high-risk employees. Weeks before the program launched, a company...

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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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