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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226183
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Where to Snuff the Puff? Relative Effectiveness of U.S. Smoking Control Policies
Goel, Rajeev K. - 2016
This research examines the relative effectiveness of various smoking control initiatives in lowering U.S. smoking prevalence. The main contribution lies in considering alternate state-level restrictions on retailers as well as smokers. Greater restrictions on smokers lower smoking prevalence,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014141988
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Monitoring for Waste : Evidence from Medicare Audits
Shi, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a large Medicare program that monitored for unnecessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337803
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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'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372448
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The income volatility see-saw : implications for school lunch.
Newman, Constance.; United States. - 2006
eligibility in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). The results show that income volatility was higher for successively lower … income groups and that the major determinants of changes in NSLP eligibility were changes in total household hours worked and … their monthly NSLP eligibility during the year. An estimated 27 percent of households that were income eligible for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429474
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The income volatility see-saw : implications for school lunch.
Newman, Constance.; United States. - 2006
eligibility in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). The results show that income volatility was higher for successively lower … income groups and that the major determinants of changes in NSLP eligibility were changes in total household hours worked and … their monthly NSLP eligibility during the year. An estimated 27 percent of households that were income eligible for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429514
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Income volatility and health
Halliday, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2007
We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on the estimation of dynamic panel data models. Contrary to much of the previous literature on health and socio-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003684456
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Attrition and health in ageing studies : evidence from ELSA and HRS
Banks, James; Muriel, Alastair; Smith, James P. - 2010
In this paper we present results of an investigation into observable characteristics associated with attrition in ELSA and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically related to health outcomes and socioeconomic status (SES). Investigating the links between health and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007015
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Earnings growth and movements in self-reported health
Halliday, Timothy - 2012
We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and changes in self-reported health status. Causal claims are predicated upon appropriate moment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009531338
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Unemployment and mortality : evidence from the PSID
Halliday, Timothy - 2013
In this paper, we use the death file from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate the relationship between county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline health status as well as state and industry fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696900