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The captain of the men of death and his shadow: Long-run impacts of early life pneumonia exposure
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - 2011
We exploit the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937 to identify the causal impact of exposure to pneumonia in infancy on … pneumonia as these were the areas that benefited most from the availability of sulfa drugs. These estimates are, in general … our finding that African Americans experienced larger absolute reductions in pneumonia mortality after the arrival of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282476
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The Captain of the Men of Death and His Shadow: Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We exploit the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937 to identify the causal impact of exposure to pneumonia in infancy on … pneumonia as these were the areas that benefited most from the availability of sulfa drugs. These estimates are, in general … our finding that African Americans experienced larger absolute reductions in pneumonia mortality after the arrival of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353611
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The Value of Socialized Medicine: The Impact of Universal Primary Healthcare Provision on Birth and Mortality Rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345385
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The Impact of Increased Cost-Sharing on Utilization of Low Value Services: Evidence from the State of Oregon
Gruber, Jonathan; Maclean, J. Catherine; Wright, Bill; … - 2017
In this study we examine the impact of a value-based insurance design (V-BID) program implemented between 2010 and 2013 at a large public employer in the state of Oregon. The program substantially increased cost-sharing, specifically copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653205
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Health Insurance Expansions and Provider Behavior: Evidence from Substance Use Disorder Providers
Maclean, J. Catherine; Popovici, Ioana; Stern, Elisheva … - 2017
We examine how substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers respond to private health insurance expansions induced by state equal coverage ('parity') laws for SUD treatment. We use data on the near universe of specialty SUD treatment providers in the United States between 1997 and 2010 in an...
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Do Minimum Wage Increases Influence Worker Health?
Horn, Brady P.; Maclean, J. Catherine; Strain, Michael R. - 2017
This study investigates whether minimum wage increases in the United States affect an important non-market outcome: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surveys coupled with differences-in-differences...
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Losing Insurance and Behavioral Health Hospitalizations: Evidence from a Large-Scale Medicaid Disenrollment
Maclean, J. Catherine; Tello-Trillo, Sebastian; Webber, … - 2019
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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Legal Status and Deprivation in India's Urban Slums: An Analysis of Two Decades of National Sample Survey Data
Nolan, Laura B.; Bloom, David E.; Subbaraman, Ramnath - 2017
In India, 52 98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning almost 20 years to test the hypothesis that non-notified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653367
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Ageing, health and life satisfaction of the oldest old: an analysis for Germany
Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2009
This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older). We observe a U-shaped relationship between age...
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Unions as Insurance: Employer–Worker Risk Sharing and Workers' Outcomes during COVID-19
Braakmann, Nils; Hirsch, Boris - 2023
We investigate to what extent workplace unionisation protects workers from external shocks as predicted by models of implicit contracts. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers who worked in unionised and non-unionised workplaces...
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