We examine the effects of state health insurance mandates requiring coverage of screening mammograms. We find robust … women with less than a high school degree in states that ban deductibles, a policy similar to a provision of federal health … not consistent with current recommendations of the American Cancer Society …

In 2004, France introduced a national program of organized breast cancer screening. The national program built on pre …

recommendation. We explore this distinction in the context of recommendations that breast cancer screening start at age 40. The raw … data suggest that responders to the age 40 recommendation have less cancer than do women who self-select into screening at … recommendation also have less cancer than women who never screen, suggesting that the benefits of recommending early screening are …

I analyze the effects of four types of medical innovation and cancer incidence on U.S. cancer mortality rates during … the period 2000-2009, by estimating difference-in-differences models using longitudinal (annual) data on about 60 cancer ….8% decline of the age-adjusted cancer mortality rate during 2000-2009. Drug innovation and imaging innovation are estimated to …

I investigate whether the types of cancer (breast, colon, lung, etc.) subject to greater penetration of new ideas had … the 1994-2008 increase in the 5-year observed survival rate for all cancer sites combined may have been due to the … increase in the novelty of medical ideas 12-24 years earlier.The number of years of potential life lost from cancer before ages …

occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …

Occupational choice is a significant input into individuals' health investments, operating in a manner that can be … either health-promoting or health-depreciating. Recent studies have highlighted the potential importance of initial … a causal relationship between initial occupational choice at labor entry and subsequent health behaviors and habits. We …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …

policy analysis, such as spurious reductions in measured health system performance as screening expands …