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Deza, Monica; Thanh Lu; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the impact of losing health insurance on criminal activity by leveraging one of the most substantial Medicaid disenrollments in U.S. history, which occurred in Tennessee in 2005 and lead to 190,000 non-elderly and non-disabled adults without dependents unexpectedly losing coverage....

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Vaccination Policy, Delayed Care, and Health Expenditures

Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Fu, Wei; Liu, Chia-Lun; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the United States healthcare system, resulting in major disruptions in the delivery of essential care and causing crippling financial losses that threaten the viability of millions of medical practices. There is little empirical evidence on the types...

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The Chronic Disease Index : Analyzing Health Inequalities Over the Lifecycle

Danesh, Kaveh; Kolstad, Jonathan; Parker, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The rich live longer than the poor, but relatively little is known about the evolution of health inequality across the lifecycle. Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we develop an index of chronic disease burden based on the projected contribution to old-age mortality. Chronic...

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Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization : The Role of Physicians

Badinski, Ivan; Finkelstein, Amy; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that … separates variation in average utilization of Medicare beneficiaries due to physicians, non-physician supply side factors, and … patient demand. The model is identified by migration of patients and physicians across areas, as well as by variation in …

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Comparative effectiveness research, technological abandonment, and health care spending

Howard, David H.; Shen, Yu-Chu - In: The economics of medical technology, (pp. 103-121). 2012

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American delusion: life expectancy and welfare in the US from an international perspective

Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Rocha, Rudi; Szklo, Michel - 2021

Recent increases in mortality have brought life expectancy back to the forefront of the public health debate in the US. Though unprecedented, this trend comes after an equally striking phenomenon: a decades long deterioration in the relative position of the US in the world's life expectancy...

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Health insurance expansions and provider behavior : evidence from substance use disorder providers

Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Popovici, Ioana; Stern, … - 2017

We examine how substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers respond to private health insurance expansions induced by state equal coverage ('parity') laws for SUD treatment. We use data on the near universe of specialty SUD treatment providers in the United States between 1997 and 2010 in an...

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Obstetric Unit Closures and Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Health

Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Wu, Xue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper examines whether loss of locally available hospital-based obstetric services affects racial/ethnic disparities in intrapartum care access and birth outcomes in rural areas of the US. To conduct causal inference, we combine difference-in-difference and propensity score matching methods...

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Heterogeneity in Disease Resistance and the Impact of Antibiotics in the US

Cook, C. Justin; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We hypothesize that the impact of antibiotics is moderated by a population's inherent (genetic) resistance to infectious disease. Using the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937, we show that US states that are more genetically susceptible to infectious disease saw larger declines in their...

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Provider Payment Incentives : Evidence From The U.S. Hospice Industry

Coe, Norma B.; Rosenkranz, David A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Moral hazard and provider-induced demand may contribute to overutilization of scarce health care resources. The U.S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and providers respond. We investigate hospice programs'...

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