Showing 1 - 10 of 195
In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first presents the bounds testing procedure as a method to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900852
, qualitative, and quantitative dynamic norms, on actual vaccination rates. Contrary to our hypothesis, dynamic norms alone fail to … influence second-dose HPV vaccination rates for these trendsetters. However, the study reveals a 5.22 percent increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540586
unfinished sewerage infrastructure on early-life mortality in Peru. I compile several sources of administrative panel data for 1 … that unfinished sewerage projects increased early-life mortality, driven by lack of water availability, water … decrease early-life mortality, in line with public health studies in advanced economies during the previous centuries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293130
, and health outcomes. Specifically, the paper econometrically tests whether the effect of PFM on under-five (U5) mortality …-unit increase in PFM quality is associated with a reduction in the U5 mortality rate with about 14 deaths per 1,000 live births. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992296
Valuing a change in the risk of death is a key input into the calculation of the benefits of environmental policies that save lives. Typically such risks are monetized using the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL). Because the majority of the lives saved by environmental policies are those of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606716
contingent valuation surveys that elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reductions. We examine the importance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606927
Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and nonmedical inputs, often finding small marginal effects of the former. This paper argues that both types of input have an additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900770
or physician. However, this level of analysis is mostly limited to the use of in-hospital mortality rates and is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695986
This paper attempts to identify the climatic effect on birth outcomes in Brazil and, thus, to predict the potential impact of climate change. Panel data models indicate that excess and lack of rainfall have the most important harmful effects on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285571
that have been distinguished by Zweifel, Felder and Meier (1999), viz. the cost of morbidity and the cost of mortality … (their "red herring" hypothesis claims that neglecting the mortality component results in excessive estimates of future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003216021