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to electricity and health care seem not to affect mortality on extremely hot days. Residential AC appears to be both the …
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the National Health Interview Survey to study one such behavior: smoking. We find that CABG patients are 12 percentage …, exercise, smoking, and drinking - in a way that increases longevity. To test our hypothesis, we use Medicare records linked to … points more likely to quit smoking in the one-year period immediately surrounding their procedure than PCI patients, a result …
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: smoking, obesity, heavy alcohol use, and unsafe use of motor vehicles, firearms, and poisonous substances. These risk factors … have moved in opposite directions. Reduced smoking, safer driving and cars, and reduced heavy alcohol use have led to … health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by …
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birth weight and gestational age of the newborns of these mothers. An increase in earnings does not influence the health of …
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Substantial systematic differences exist in children’s home learning experiences. The few existing parenting programs that have shown promise often are not widely accessible, either due to the demands they place on parents’ time and effort or cost. In this study, we evaluate the effects of...
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This paper models how the evolving field of pharmacogenomics (PG), which is the science of using genomic markers to predict drug response, may impact drug development times, attrition rates, costs, and the future returns to research and development (R&D). While there still remains an abundance...
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paper I employ the First, Second, and Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to estimate a structural model … caloric intake (adjusted for activity level) and smoking, a set of reduced form equations for these outcomes is estimated …
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This paper examines the pathways by which individuals transition from healthy to disabled. Because of the high prevalence and costs associated with disability, understanding these pathways is critical to developing interventions to prevent or minimize disability. We compare two estimates of...
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inequality. Cost savings in terms of improved health, however, are often not cited yet represent another dimension of savings … methods, I show how cycling can lead to improved physical health outcomes. This is turn may carry policy implications in terms …
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This report describes an easily computable model of the relation between cigarette prices and cigarette consumption in the United States. The model is used to predict the revenue impacts of Federal excise tax hikes ranging from $0.45 to $1.76 per pack.
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