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Consumer resistance against regulation: The case of health care
Zweifel, Peter; Telser, Harry; Vaterlaus, Stephan - 2005
Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment designed to measure the amounts of compensation asked by the Swiss population (in terms of reduced premiums) for Managed-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315556
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Social networks and vaccination decisions
Rao, Neel; Möbius, Markus M.; Rosenblat, Tanya - 2007
We combine information on social networks with medical records and survey data in order to examine how friends affect one's decision to get vaccinated against the flu. The random assignment of undergraduates to residential halls at a large private university allows us to estimate how peer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280911
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Social networks and vaccination decisions
Rao, Neel (contributor); Mobius, Markus (contributor);  … - 2007
We combine information on social networks with medical records and survey data in order to examine how friends affect one's decision to get vaccinated against the flu. The random assignment of undergraduates to residential halls at a large private university allows us to estimate how peer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003715780
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Consumer resistance against regulation : the case of health care
Zweifel, Peter (contributor); Telser, Harry (contributor);  … - 2005
Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment designed to measure the amounts of compensation asked by the Swiss population (in terms of reduced premiums) for Managed-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002746136
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Incentives to Vaccinate
Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; Meier, Stephan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Whether monetary incentives to change behavior work and how they should be structured are fundamental economic questions. We overcome typical data limitations in a large-scale field experiment on vaccination (N = 5,324) with a unique combination of administrative and survey data. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072841
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Toward the integration of personality theory and decision theory in the explanation of economic and health behavior
Rustichini, Aldo; DeYoung, Colin G.; Anderson, Jon; … - 2012
Trait-based personality psychology and economics have taken different approaches to understanding individual differences, with the former emphasizing variables derived from the factor analysis of trait assessments, and the latter emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287694
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The effects of income inequality on BMI and obesity: Evidence from the BRFSS
Volland, Benjamin - 2012
Despite increasing knowledge on its adverse consequences, obesity prevalence across the U.S. has been rising markedly … argued to exacerbate the prevalence of obesity is the distribution of income. Augmenting data from 12 consecutive waves of … of variations in body mass and obesity across the U.S. It finds that they have a significant positive effect on BMI and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327366
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Child care subsidies and childhood obesity
Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2009
as well as measures of overweight and obesity. We then turn to quantile regression to address the possibility that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269082
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Do the obese really die younger or do health expenditures buy them extra years?
Frijters, Paul; Barón, Juan D. - 2009
A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been … obesity, using the US Health and Retirement Study. Whilst we find that obesity leads to chronic diseases that reduce length of … when controlling for smoking and the long-term effects of obesity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270627
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The geographic accessibility of child care subsidies and evidence on the impact of subsidy receipt on childhood obesity
Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2011
to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282535