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COVID-19 Doesn't Need Lockdowns to Destroy Jobs : The Effect of Local Outbreaks in Korea
Aum, Sangmin - 2020
Unlike most countries, Korea did not implement a lockdown in its battle against COVID-19, instead successfully relying on testing and contact tracing. Only one region, Daegu-Gyeongbuk (DG), had a significant number of infections, traced to a religious sect. This allows us to estimate the causal...
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Work Disability is a Pain in the *****, Especially in England, The Netherlands, and the United States
Banks, James - 2005
This paper investigates the role of pain in determining self-reported work disability in the US, the UK and The Netherlands. Even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences in reported work disability remain substantial. In the US and the Netherlands, respondent evaluations of...
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The Sweet Life : The Long-Term Effects of a Sugar-Rich Early Childhood
Gertler, Paul J.; Gračner, Tadeja - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show that sugar-rich diet early in life has large adverse effects on the health and economic well-being of adults more than fifty years later. Excessive sugar intake early in life led to higher prevalence of chronic inflammation, diabetes, elevated cholesterol and arthritis. It also decreased...
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Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men : Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change
Costa, Dora L. - 2000
innovations in medical care, 37 percent to reduced chronic disease rates, and the remainder is unexplained. The portion due to … reduced chronic disease rates can be subdivided into the 9 percent accounted for by reduced infectious disease rates …
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The Psychosocial Effects of the Flint Water Crisis on School-Age Children
Trejo, Sam; Yeomans-Maldonado, Gloria; Jacob, Brian Aaron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Lead poisoning has well-known impacts for the developing brain of young children, with a large literature documenting the negative effects of elevated blood lead levels on academic and behavioral outcomes. In April of 2014, the municipal water source in Flint, Michigan was changed, causing lead...
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Providing Vouchers and Value Information for Already Free Eye Exams Increases Uptake Among a Low-Income Minority Population : A Randomized Trial
Kacker, Seema; Macis, Mario; Gajwani, Prateek; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-up appointments in a low-income minority population in Baltimore City referred for possible eye disease. Between May 2017 and …
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Effects of Opioid-Related Policies on Opioid Utilization, Nature of Medical Care, and Duration of Disability
Neumark, David; Savych, Bogdan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the effects of must-access prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) and recent regulations limiting the duration of initial opioid prescriptions on care received by patients with work-related injuries, focusing on opioid utilization and medical care related to pain management. We...
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The Anatomy of U.S. Sick Leave Schemes : Evidence from Public School Teachers
Cronin, Christopher J.; Harris, Matthew C.; Ziebarth, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies how U.S. employees use paid sick leave. The most common U.S. sick-leave schemes operate as individualized credit accounts---paid leave is earned over time and unused leave accumulates, producing an employee-specific "leave balance." We construct a unique administrative dataset...
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Germs in the Family : The Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Endemic Respiratory Disease Spread
Daysal, N. Meltem; Ding, Hui; Rossin-Slater, Maya; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
through which infants become infected by respiratory illnesses, as well as the consequences of early-life respiratory disease …-municipality variation in respiratory disease prevalence among preschool-aged children to identify differential long-term impacts of early … disease prevalence distribution ("disease index") is associated with a 30.9 percent differential increase in the number of …
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Treatment Decision-Making in Catastrophic Illness
Warner, Kenneth E. - 1976
It is well established that the social and economic environment of medical care distinguishes its provision from that of other goods and services. While scholars have studied the influences of this idiosyncratic environment, there is relatively little empirical knowledge about how it affects...
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