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Using Audit Studies to Test for Physician Induced Demand : The Case of Antibiotic Abuse in China

Currie, Janet - 2012

patients actively demanding antibiotics, by physicians believing that patients want antibiotics, or by physicians believing …

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Coordination, Switching Costs and the Division of Labor in General Medicine : An Economic Explanation for the Emergence of Hospitalists in the United States

Meltzer, David - 2010

General medical care in the United States has historically been provided by physicians who care for their patients in … both ambulatory and hospital settings. Care is now increasingly divided between physicians specializing in hospital care … (hospitalists) and ambulatory-based care primary care physicians. We develop and find strong empirical support for a theoretical …

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When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012

We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and age-structure of the population, capital accumulation,...

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Health vs. Wealth? Public Health Policies and the Economy During Covid-19

Lin, Zhixian - 2020

We study the impact of non-pharmaceutical policy interventions (NPIs) like “stay-at-home” orders on the spread of infectious disease. Local policies have little impact on the economy nor on local public health. Stay-at-home is only weakly associated with slower growth of Covid-19 cases....

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Using Donald Trump's COVID-19 Vaccine Endorsement to Give Public Health a Shot in the Arm : A Large-Scale Ad Experiment

Larsen, Bradley; Hetherington, Marc; Greene, Steven; … - 2022

We report a large-scale randomized controlled trial designed to assess whether the partisan cue of a provaccine message from Donald Trump would induce Americans to get COVID-19 vaccines. Our study involved presenting a 27-second advertisement to millions of U.S. YouTube users in October 2021....

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Do Pandemics Change Healthcare? Evidence from the Great Influenza

Esteves, Rui; Mitchener, Kris James; Nencka, Peter; … - 2022

Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital capacity by more than cities experiencing less influenza...

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Building Resilient Health Systems : Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak

Christensen, Darin; Dube, Oeindrila; Haushofer, Johannes; … - 2022

Underuse of health systems and a lack of confidence in their quality contribute to high rates of mortality in the developing world. How individuals perceive health systems may be especially critical during epidemics, when they choose whether to cooperate with response efforts and frontline...

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Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates

Milkman, Katherine L. - 2011

We evaluate the results of a field experiment designed to measure the effect of prompts to form implementation intentions on realized behavioral outcomes. The outcome of interest is influenza vaccination receipt at free on-site clinics offered by a large firm to its employees. All employees...

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Does Disease Cause Vaccination? Disease Outbreaks and Vaccination Response

Oster, Emily F. - 2016

Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks...

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Does Mass Deworming Affect Child Nutrition? Meta-Analysis, Cost-Effectiveness, and Statistical Power

Croke, Kevin - 2016

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