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Doctors, patients and the racial mortality gap
Simeonova, Emilia - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 5, pp. 895-908
Research in the health sciences reports persistent racial differences in health care access, utilization, and outcomes. This study investigates three potential sources of these disparities – differential quality of care, physician discrimination, and patient response to therapy. It uses a...
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Peer effects on risky behaviors: New evidence from college roommate assignments
Eisenberg, Daniel; Golberstein, Ezra; Whitlock, Janis L. - In: Journal of Health Economics 33 (2014) C, pp. 126-138
Social scientists continue to devote considerable attention to spillover effects for risky behaviors because of the important policy implications and the persistent challenges in identifying unbiased causal effects. We use the natural experiment of assigned college roommates to estimate peer...
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What U.S. data should be used to measure the price elasticity of demand for alcohol?
Ruhm, Christopher J.; Jones, Alison Snow; McGeary, … - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 6, pp. 851-862
This paper examines how estimates of the price elasticity of demand for beer vary with the choice of alcohol price … alcohol demand elasticities—estimates obtained from this source vary drastically and unpredictably. As an alternative …, researchers often use beer taxes to proxy for alcohol prices. While the estimated beer taxes elasticities are more stable, there …
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Estimating the price elasticity of beer: Meta-analysis of data with heterogeneity, dependence, and publication bias
Nelson, Jon P. - In: Journal of Health Economics 33 (2014) C, pp. 180-187
Precise estimates of price elasticities are important for alcohol tax policy. Using meta-analysis, this paper corrects … average beer price elasticity is about −0.20, which is less elastic by 50% compared to values commonly used in alcohol tax …
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Aversion to health inequalities in healthcare prioritisation: A multicriteria optimisation perspective
Morton, Alec - In: Journal of Health Economics 36 (2014) C, pp. 164-173
In this paper we discuss the prioritisation of healthcare projects where there is a concern about health inequalities, but the decision maker is reluctant to make explicit quantitative value judgements and the data systems only allow the measurement of health at an aggregate level. Our analysis...
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Discrimination makes me sick! An examination of the discrimination–health relationship
Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 1, pp. 99-111
The attitudes of the general British population towards Muslims changed post 2001, and this change led to a significant increase in Anti-Muslim discrimination. We use this exogenous attitude change to estimate the causal impact of increased discrimination on a range of objective and subjective...
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Gold and Silver health plans: Accommodating demand heterogeneity in managed competition
Glazer, Jacob; McGuire, Thomas G. - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 5, pp. 1011-1019
New regulation of health insurance markets creates multiple levels of health plans, with designations like “Gold” and “Silver.” The underlying rationale for the heavy-metal approach to insurance regulation is that heterogeneity in demand for health care is not only due to health status...
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Exploring the intergenerational persistence of mental health: Evidence from three generations
Johnston, David W.; Schurer, Stefanie; Shields, Michael A. - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 6, pp. 1077-1089
This paper uses data from the 1970 British Cohort Study to quantify the intergenerational persistence of mental health, and the long-run economic costs associated with poor parental mental health. We find a strong and significant intergenerational correlation that is robust to different...
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Recession depression: Mental health effects of the 2008 stock market crash
McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Nicholas, … - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 6, pp. 1090-1104
Do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? We use exogenous variation in the interview dates of the 2008 Health and Retirement Study to assess the impact of large wealth losses on mental health among older U.S. adults. We compare cross-wave changes in wealth and mental health for...
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Weathering the storm: Hurricanes and birth outcomes
Currie, Janet; Rossin-Slater, Maya - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 3, pp. 487-503
A growing literature suggests that stressful events in pregnancy can have negative effects on birth outcomes. Some of the estimates in this literature may be affected by small samples, omitted variables, endogenous mobility in response to disasters, and errors in the measurement of gestation, as...
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