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Black Box Warnings and Drug Safety: Examining the Determinants and Timing of FDA Warning Labels
Begosh, Allan; Goldsmith, John; Hass, Ed; Lutter, Randall W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Comparing the safety of prescription drugs over time is difficult due to the paucity of reliable quantitative measures of drug safety. Both the academic literature and popular press have focused on drug withdrawals as a proxy for breakdowns in the drug safety system. This metric, however, is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575064
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The Impact of Health Card Program on Access to Reproductive Health Services: An Indonesian Experience
Landiyanto, Erlangga Agustino - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
. Discussion in this paper limit on antenatal care, place of delivery and contraceptive use which are only reproductive health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110236
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Consumer Inertia and Firm Pricing in the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Insurance Exchange
Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
I use the Medicare Part D prescription drug insurance market to examine the dynamics of firm interaction with consumers on an insurance exchange. Enrollment data show that consumers face switching frictions leading to inertia in plan choice, and a regression discontinuity design indicates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821994
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Nudging Healthy Lifestyles – Informing Regulatory Governance with Behavioural Research
Alemanno, Alberto; Amir, On; Bovens, Luc; Burgess, Adam; … - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2012
At a time when policy makers want to change the behaviour of citizens to tackle a broad range of social problems, such as climate change, excessive drinking, obesity and crime, a promising new policy approach has appeared that seems capable of escaping the liberal reservations typically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010832931
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A Behavioural Approach to Health Promotion: Informing the Global NCD Agenda with Behavioural
Alemanno, Alberto - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2014
legislation, regulation, and even financial and fiscal incentives, may induce behaviour change to the scale required to reduce the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147720
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COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS, VALUE OF A STATISTICAL LIFE AND CULTURE: CHALLENGES FOR RISK REGULATION
Marquez, Pablo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The author studies three aspects of human live valuation and its relation with cost benefit analysis and regulation …-Benefit Analysis (CBA) in mortality risks regulation; second, deals with two challenges to CBA and VSL, these are (a) the problem of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623429
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Behind-the-counter, but Over-the-border? The Assessment of the Geographical Spillover Effect of Increased Access to Emergency Contraception
Cintina, Inna - University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization … - 2013
Oregon. However, after accounting for changes in the availability of abortion services, the decrease in fertility rates in … fertility rates beyond the borders of the state that allows it. In contrast to the literature, I show that increased access to … EC is associated with a statistically significant albeit economically small decrease in abortion rates in Washington …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933391
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Behind-the-counter, but Over-the-border? The Assessment of the Spillover Effect of Increased Availability of Emergency Contraception in Washington on Neighboring States
Cintina, Inna - University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization … - 2013
abortion services, the decrease in fertility rates in "treated" Idaho counties is rather small and models lack sufficient power … women of any age in 1998. I hypothesize that the increased availability of EC affects fertility rates beyond the borders of … increased access to EC is associated with a substantial and statistically significant 5-7% decrease in abortion rates and 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688372
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Behind-the-counter, but Over-the-border? The Assessment of the Geographical Spillover Effect of Increased Access to Emergency Contraception
Cintina, Inna - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2013
Oregon. However, after accounting for changes in the availability of abortion services, the decrease in fertility rates in â … fertility rates beyond the borders of the state that allows it. In contrast to the literature, I show that increased access to … EC is associated with a statistically significant albeit economically small decrease in abortion rates in Washington …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010713849
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Behind-the-counter, but Over-the-border? The Assessment of the Spillover Effect of Increased Availability of Emergency Contraception in Washington on Neighboring States
Cintina, Inna - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2013
abortion services, the decrease in fertility rates in “treated†Idaho counties is rather small and models lack sufficient … women of any age in 1998. I hypothesize that the increased availability of EC affects fertility rates beyond the borders of … increased access to EC is associated with a substantial and statistically significant 5-7% decrease in abortion rates and 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011162931