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Minimum Drinking Age Laws and Infant Health Outcomes
Watson, Tara - 2010
Alcohol policies have potentially far-reaching impacts on risky sexual behavior, prenatal health behaviors, and subsequent outcomes for infants. We examine whether changes in minimum drinking age (MLDA) laws affect the likelihood of poor birth outcomes. Using data from the National Vital...
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What to Expect When it Gets Hotter : The Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Heat on Maternal Health
Kim, Jiyoon - 2019
heat increases the risk of maternal hospitalization during pregnancy for potentially life-threatening causes. We find that … maternal pregnancy health is larger for black than for white mothers, suggesting that projected increases in extreme heat over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860849
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Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care : Evidence from At-Risk Newborns
Almond, Douglas; Doyle, Joseph J.; Kowalski, Amanda; … - 2021
We estimate marginal returns to medical care for at-risk newborns by comparing health outcomes and medical treatment provision on either side of common risk classifications, most notably the "very low birth weight" threshold at 1500 grams. First, using data on the census of US births in...
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From Infant to Mother : Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health
Almond, Douglas - 2011
This paper examines the links between the disease environment around the time of a woman's birth, and her health at the … time she delivers her own infant. Our results suggest that exposure to disease in early childhood significantly increases … whites. Among whites, this effect remains when we control for maternal behaviors as well as disease exposure. Among blacks …
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How Corruption Hits People When They are Down
Hunt, Jennifer - 2010
Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more likely than non-victims to bribe public officials. Misfortune increases victims' demand for public services, raising bribery indirectly, and also increases victims' propensity to...
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Information, Avoidance Behavior, and Health : the Effect of Ozone on Asthma Hospitalizations
Neidell, Matthew - 2012
This paper assesses whether responses to information about risk impact estimates of the relationship between ozone and asthma in Southern California. Using a regression discontinuity design, I find smog alerts significantly reduces daily attendance at two major outdoor facilities. Using daily...
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A Theory of Voluntary Testing and Self-Isolation in an Ongoing Pandemic
Hellmann, Thomas F.; Thiele, Veikko - 2021
Thinking beyond Covid-19, there is a growing interest in what economic structures will be needed to face ongoing pandemics. In this paper we focus on the diagnostic problem and examine a new paradigm of voluntary self-testing by private individuals. People without symptoms face daily choices of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229337
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Professional Partnerships and Matching in Obstetrics
Epstein, Andrew Joel - 2008
Theory indicates that internally-differentiated professional partnerships can promote matching between heterogeneous consumers and professionals, particularly when consumers have imperfect information or markets have barriers to referrals between firms. We test this in obstetrics markets,...
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Improving the Numerical Performance of Blp Static and Dynamic Discrete Choice Random Coefficients Demand Estimation
Dubé, Jean-Pierre - 2009
The widely-used estimator of Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes (1995) produces estimates of consumer preferences from a discrete-choice demand model with random coefficients, market-level demand shocks and endogenous prices. We derive numerical theory results characterizing the properties of the nested...
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The Dynamics of Car Sales : A Discrete Choice Approach
Adda, Jerome - 2006
Mankiw [1982] explores the Permanent Income Hypothesis implication that durable expenditures follow an ARMA(1,1) representation. He finds that durable expenditures are represented by an AR(1) process which implies that the rate of depreciation of durables, under the PIH model, is 100%. This...
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