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I examine the effect of pharmaceutical innovation on the functional status of nursing home residents using cross-sectional, patient-level data from the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey. This was the first public-use survey of nursing homes that contains detailed information about medication...
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associations, together with the ability of subjective wellbeing (SWB) metrics to predict health and behavioral outcomes, have … from the Health Survey for England (HSE) and Scottish Health Surveys (SHeS) we show that its correlates are similar in a … number of ways to those for SWB, and that it is highly correlated with SWB metrics, as well as self-assessed health. Second …
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On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often …
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focus of analysis beyond traditional health outcomes to include measures of human capital, including labor supply … importance of health and human capital as an engine for economic growth, these findings underscore the role of environmental …
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In this paper, we characterize the multi-faceted health of the elderly and understand how health along multiple … of health can be combined into three broad categories: a first dimension representing severe physical and social … improvement in health is not due to differential mortality of the sick or a new generation of more healthy people entering old age …
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Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health and the willingness to pay (WTP …) for medical technologies. However, the absence of empirical health risk preference estimates so far limits the … individual risk preference parameters over health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that shed light on health risk attitudes and …
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Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in which randomly-selected mothers receive cash transfers for the first two years of their child's life, we examine the relationship between income and child development in the...
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. We show that immigration affects the availability and cost of home services, including those provided by home health …
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There is substantial waste in U.S. healthcare, but little consensus on how to identify or combat it. We identify one specific source of waste: long-term care hospitals (LTCHs). These post-acute care facilities began as a regulatory carve-out for a few dozen specialty hospitals, but have expanded...
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Medicare does not pay for a skilled nursing facility (SNF) unless a fee-for-service patient has stayed in the hospital for at least three days. Discharges after the three-day cutoff consistently result in more transfers to SNFs. Using the three-day rule as an instrument, we find that SNF...
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