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The Impact of New Laboratory Procedures and Other Medical Innovations on the Health of Americans, 1990-2003 : Evidence from Longitudinal, Disease-Level Data
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2021
the health of Americans during the period 1990-2003. We hypothesize that, the more medical innovation there is related to … hypothesis, we estimate models of health outcomes using longitudinal disease-level data. We measure innovation in five types of … outpatient drug innovation had larger increases in mean age at death, controlling for other medical innovation rates and initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247291
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Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care
Skinner, Jonathan S. - 2012
Inefficiency in the U.S. health care system has often been characterized as quot;flat of the curvequot; spending providing little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better explain the empirical patterns of outcome improvements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754821
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Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care
Chandra, Amitabh - 2011
In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also grown more rapidly than in any other country. We develop a model of patient demand and supplier behavior to explain these parallel trends in technology growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127016
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Estimating the Impact of Medical Innovation : A Case Study of HIV Antiretroviral Treatments
Duggan, Mark; Evans, William N. - 2021
As health care consumes a growing share of national income in the U.S., the demand for better estimates regarding both the benefits and the costs of new health care treatments is likely to increase. Estimating these effects with observational data is difficult given the endogeneity of treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229012
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Health Shocks, Insurance Status and Net Worth : Intra- and Inter-Generational Effects
Conley, Dalton - 2011
An extensive literature has documented a robust correlation between socioeconomic status--measured in a variety of ways--and health outcomes; however, much uncertainty remains regarding what causal processes underlie this association. The present paper builds on a growing literature that seeks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128892
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Health Care Spending Growth and the Future of U.S. Tax Rates
Baicker, Katherine - 2011
The fraction of GDP devoted to health care in the United States is the highest in the world and rising rapidly. Recent economic studies have highlighted the growing value of health improvements, but less attention has been paid to the efficiency costs of tax-financed spending to pay for such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130266
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Does Decreased Access to Emergency Departments Affect Patient Outcomes? Analysis of Ami Population 1996-2005
Shen, Yu-Chu - 2011
We analyze whether decreased emergency department access (measured by increased driving time to the nearest ED) results in adverse patient outcomes or changes in the patient health profile for patients suffering from acute myocardial infarction. Data sources include 100% Medicare Provider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131498
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Does Health Insurance Coverage Lead to Better Health and Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Rural China
Chen, Yuyu - 2010
Using 2006 China Agricultural Census (CAC), we examine whether the introduction of the New Cooperative Medical System (NCMS) has affected child mortality, maternal mortality, and school enrollment of the 6-16 years olds. Our data cover 5.9 million people living in eight low-income rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137467
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The Impact of State Tax Subsidies for Private Long-Term Care Insurance on Coverage and Medicaid Expenditures
Goda, Gopi Shah - 2010
In spite of the large expected costs of needing long-term care, only 10-12 percent of the elderly population has private insurance coverage. Medicaid, which provides means-tested public assistance and pays for almost half of long-term care costs, spends more than $100 billion annually on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137609
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Identifying Provider Prejudice in Healthcare
Chandra, Amitabh - 2010
discrimination using observational data. We focus our inquiry on the enormous literature in healthcare where treatment disparities by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137734