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In this study, we study disability among older people (aged 60 or older) using the 2016 Viet Nam National Disability Survey. We find that 31% and 12% of older people are living with low and high disabilities, respectively. These rates are remarkably higher than the disability rate identified by...
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Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more geographically centralized. We study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference-in-differences design. We find that closures lead...
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This paper investigates the causal link between healthcare access and the help-seeking behavior of intimate partner … violence (IPV) victims. Healthcare access can be an important entry point for screening or detecting IPV. Doctors are required … to IPV services. We exploit the 2012 reform in Spain that removed access to the public healthcare system for undocumented …
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conditions where each business model is most profitable. We find that, in equilibrium, a provider-only might make patients worse …-off. Furthermore, a platform business model always improves patients' service probability but might be unprofitable depending on …
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classification algorithm to identify asymptomatic carriers, underlining the impactful applications it may have on healthcare …
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physician gender. We exploit quasi-random assignment of primary care providers (PCPs) to patients and estimate the causal effect … that female PCPs generate 14% less revenue than male PCPs. This gap is driven by a 6% reduction in the number of patients …
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The major bone of contention between the developed and developing countries in the TRIPS negotiations was patents for pharmaceuticals. The US-led developed countries bloc argued in favour of patents for pharmaceuticals amidst opposition from Brazil, India and other countries. Ample evidence,...
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