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analogy to medical treatments, the individual exposure to these tools may have side effects. We study effects on health using … outcomes before and after exposure to training and sanctions. We find that training improves cardiovascular and mental health … sanctions cause a short-run deterioration of mental health, possibly due higher stress levels, but this tapers out quickly. …
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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks that … effect of a parental health shock on their children's labor market outcomes. …
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Healthcare payers try to reduce costs by promoting the use of cheaper generic drugs. We show strong interrelations in drug prescriptions between the inpatient and outpatient sectors by using a large administrative dataset from Austria. Patients with prior hospital visits have a significantly...
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rates on access and health outcomes for beneficiaries. In this paper, we exploit within-state variation in Medicaid … associated with significant increases in doctors' visits, improvements in access measures, better self-reported health, and fewer …
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We investigate the short- and long-term effects of hospitalization on different types of health care expenditures (HCE …. Considering all health treatments, the overall effect is sizable, accounting for approximately twice the cost for any single …
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To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email … German names, does not affect whether they receive an appointment or wait time. In contrast, patients with private insurance … are 31 percent more likely to receive an appointment. Holding a private insurance also increases the likelihood of …
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benefit list of social health insurance. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted in Germany to measure preferences … contributions to health insurance. As one would expect, non-affected non-diabetics and insulin-naive diabetics exhibit higher …
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unintended side effects with regards to retiree health or healthcare costs. This study empirically analyzes the effect of (early … components of healthcare expenditure confirm a positive health effect caused by physical and emotional relief following … retirement. Apart from direct health effects, the results also reveal behavioral changes in the utilization of healthcare …
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unintended side effects with regards to retiree health or healthcare costs. This study empirically analyzes the effect of (early … components of healthcare expenditure confirm a positive health effect caused by physical and emotional relief following … retirement. Apart from direct health effects, the results also reveal behavioral changes in the utilization of healthcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927109
health care. In this paper, we document the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying policies on individual … health care utilization. We use detailed administrative health registry data for Upper Austria for the years 2019 to 2021 and … estimate the change in outpatient and inpatient health care utilization after the pandemic outbreak in March 2020 in a dynamic …
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