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The Affordable Care Act's Effects on Patients, Providers and the Economy : What We've Learned so Far
Gruber, Jonathan - 2019
patients, providers and the economy. We find strong evidence that the ACA's provisions have increased insurance coverage. There …, or increased budgetary pressures on state governments, and the law's total federal cost through 2018 has been less than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868740
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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity Among Elementary School Children
Cawley, John - 2012
have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101508
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Engineering Educational Opportunity : Impacts of 1970s and 1980s Policies to Increase the Share of Black College Graduates with Major in Engineering or Computer Science
Weinberger, Catherine J. - 2017
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, U.S. institutions of higher education began to address long-standing patterns of … exclusion. Initial efforts to improve the access of black students to engineering education focused on six historically black … their students for expanded career choices." Geographic and institutional features of the higher education infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948926
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Inside Job or Deep Impact? Using Extramural Citations to Assess Economic Scholarship
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2017
Does academic economic research produce material of scientific value, or are academic economists writing only for clients and peers? Is economics scholarship uniquely insular? We address these questions by quantifying interactions between economics and other disciplines. Changes in the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949420
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Using Performance Incentives to Improve Medical Care Productivity and Health Outcomes
Gertler, Paul J. - 2013
We nested a large-scale field experiment into the national rollout of the introduction of performance pay for medical care providers in Rwanda to study the effect of incentives for health care providers. In order to identify the effect of incentives separately from higher compensation, we held...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081846
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Health Status, Health Care and Inequality : Canada vs. The U.S
O'Neill, June - 2010
Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health resources more equitably than the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system? We show that the efficacy of health care systems cannot be usefully evaluated by comparisons of infant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759803
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Long Run Effects of Temporary Incentives on Medical Care Productivity
Celhay, Pablo A. - 2015
The adoption of new clinical practice patterns by medical care providers is often challenging, even when they are believed to be both efficacious and profitable. This paper uses a randomized field experiment to examine the effects of temporary financial incentives paid to medical care clinics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019124
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Effects of Adult Health Interventions at Scale on Children's Schooling : Evidence from Antiretroviral Therapy in Zambia
Lucas, Adrienne - 2016
In 2007, approximately one in five children in Zambia lived with an HIV positive adult. We identify the effect of adult antiretroviral therapy (ART) availability at scale on children's educational outcomes by combining data on the expansion of ART availability with two national household surveys...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980197
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How Spillovers from Appointment Reminders Improve Health Clinic Efficiency
Boone, Claire; Celhay, Pablo A.; Gertler, Paul J.; … - 2022
Missed clinic appointments present a significant burden to health care through disruption of care, inefficient use of staff time and wasted clinical resources. Short message service (SMS) appointment reminders show promise to improve clinics’ management through timely appointment cancellations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090297
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Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms : Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - 2012
We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111743