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Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the speed of NPI adoption affected COVID-19 mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date...
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's financial health plays an important role in mitigating the spread of COVID-19 by studying nursing homes, whose residents have …
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Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the speed of NPI adoption affected COVID-19 mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date...
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Background: Rising cancer drug prices pose a challenge for patients and healthcare systems in the US. Whilst prices are routinely assigned to a drug’s original indication receiving US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, the influence of supplemental indication approvals on prices...
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help explain these variations, we devise a general test for misallocation in input choices - the underuse of effective … is spent, rather than how much money is spent, is central to understanding productivity differences both in health care …
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behavior, and patient health. Every dollar Medicare spent on monitoring generated $24-29 in government savings. The majority of … the health of the marginal patient is harmed, indicating that monitoring primarily deters low-value care. Monitoring does …
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This study examines the relationship between pharmaceutical R&D and health care expenditures, distinguishing between …
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When traditional methods for measuring economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, heights and BMIs are now well accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net...
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decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …
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While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …
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