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Autopsy on an Empire : Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M. - 2005
survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262196
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Autopsy on an Empire : Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M. - 2021
survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318757
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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822711
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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005
survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784773
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Public health efforts and the decline in urban mortality : reply to Cutler and Miller
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Rees, Daniel I. - 2019
Decline in Urban Mortality" (IZA DP No. 11773), which reanalyzes data used by Cutler and Miller to investigate the … determinants of the urban mortality decline from 1900 to 1936. Two main results emerge from our reanalysis of their data: (1 …) correcting infant mortality counts reduces the estimated effect of filtration on infant mortality by two-thirds, from -43 log …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011972424
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The Contribution of Behavior Change and Public Health to Improved U.S. Population Health
Cutler, David M.; Stewart, Susan T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Adverse behavioral risk factors contribute to a large share of deaths. We examine the effects on life expectancy (LE) and quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) of changes in six major behavioral risk factors over the 1960-2010 period: smoking, obesity, heavy alcohol use, and unsafe use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950832
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Generational Aspects of Medicare
Sheiner, Louise; Cutler, David M. - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 2, pp. 303-307
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Selection Stories: Understanding Movement Across Health Plans
Cutler, David M.; Zeckhauser, Richard; Lincoln, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This study assesses the factors influencing the movement of people across health plans. We distinguish three types of cost-related transitions: adverse selection, the movement of the less healthy to more generous plans; adverse retention, the tendency for people to stay where they are when they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079176
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Are the Benefits of Medicine Worth What We Pay for it?
Cutler, David M. - 2011
Is medical care worth it? Conventional wisdom says no, but my answer is emphatically yes. The benefits that we have received from medical advance are enormously greater than the costs. I suggest that public policy far outweighs the importance of cost containment relative to coverage expansion;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182953
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Mosquitoes : The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India
Cutler, David M.; Fung, Winnie; Kremer, Michael; … - 2009
We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment by exploiting geographic variation in malaria prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication program in the 1950s. Malaria eradication resulted in gains in literacy and primary school completion rates of approximately 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223723