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Mortality rates in the US fell more rapidly during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries than any other period in American history. This decline coincided with an epidemiological transition and the disappearance of a mortality "penalty" associated with living in urban areas. There is little...
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health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible …
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Between 1900 and 1930 typhoid fever and other waterborne diseases were largely eradicated from U.S. cities. This achievement required a mix of technological, scientific, economic, and bureaucratic innovations. This article examines how the interaction of those forces influenced water and...
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We examine the effects of the State Innovation Models (SIM) on population-level health status. The SIM initiative … Surveillance System for the years 2010 -- 2016 to compare health of the populations in 6 SIM states to 15 states that were not … involved in any aspects of SIM. We examine changes in health using an event study design. We develop a Latent Class Profile …
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This chapter surveys experience with performance pay in developing country health programs. In doing so, it focuses on …-income country health programs …
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infectious disease. Local policies have little impact on the economy nor on local public health. Stay-at-home is only weakly … economic and public health shock. They also show that policy spillovers and behavioral responses are important. The tradeoff … between the economy and public health in a pandemic depends strongly on what is happening elsewhere. This underscores the …
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We exploit recent molecular genetics evidence on the genetic basis of arsenic excretion and unique information on family links among respondents living in different environments from a large panel survey within a theoretical framework incorporating optimizing behavior to uncover the hidden costs...
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We propose a "common-agency" model for explaining inefficient contracting in the U.S. healthcare system. In our setting, common-agency problems arise when multiple payers seek to motivate a shared provider to invest in improved care coordination. Our approach differs from other common-agency...
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The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces were introduced in 2014 as part of a reform of the U.S. individual health …
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This paper provides a broad and general overview of the relationship between the U.S. health care system and the labor … market. The paper first describes some of the salient features of and facts about the system of health insurance coverage in … the U.S., particularly the role of employers. It then summarizes the empirical evidence on how health insurance impacts …
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