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State and self investments in health
Fichera, Eleonora; Sutton, Matt - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1164-1173
of lipid-lowering drugs, which increased substantially over this period, is used as the measure of State investment … smoking cessation advice. We find that unobservable characteristics affecting the prescription of drugs are positively … indicate that prescription of lipid-lowering drugs to individuals with cardiovascular disease increases the probability of …
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The Dynamics of Physical and Mental Health
Ohrnberger, Julius - 2016
Mental and physical aspects are both integral to health but little is known about the dynamic relationship between them. We consider the dynamic relationship between mental and physical health using a sample of 10,339 individuals in six waves (2002-2013) of the English Longitudinal Study of...
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Probit Models with Dummy Endogenous Regressors
Arendt, Jacob Nielsen; Larsen, Holm Anders - 2008
This study considers heckit-type approximations useful for a number of different trivariate probit models. They are simple to use and have no convergence problems like full maximum likelihood. Simulations show that a heckit and a least squares approximation perform as well as the trivariate...
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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Chapter Three. The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 95-199). 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
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Health care reform and the number of doctor visits : an econometric analysis
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001
The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal model with correlated errors, describes the data better than existing count data models. Moreover, it has an...
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The Economics behind the Epidemic: Afghan Opium Price and Prescription Opioids in the US
Deiana, Claudio; Giua, Ludovica; Nistico, Roberto - 2019
We investigate the effect of variations in the price of opium in Afghanistan on per capita dispensation of prescription opioids in the US. Quarterly county-level data for 2003-2016 indicate that reductions in opium prices significantly increase the quantity of opioids prescribed. The increase...
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Side Effects of Labor Market Policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2020
Labor market policy tools such as training and sanctions are commonly used to help bring workers back to work. By analogy to medical treatments, the individual exposure to these tools may have side effects. We study effects on health using individual-level population registers on labor market...
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Side effects of labor market policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2020
Labor market policy tools such as training and sanctions are commonly used to help bring workers back to work. By analogy to medical treatments, the individual exposure to these tools may have side effects. We study effects on health using individual-level population registers on labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660610