Policy decisions can be informed by information on anticipated costs and expected future benefits of courses of action. The key questions in economic evaluation of a public health law are whether its benefits, as measured by health outcomes or cost savings, exceed its costs; secondarily, there...

This article examines the effect of workers' compensation fee schedules and state hospital rate-setting upon workers' compensation payments. We examine four types of injuries and payments involving hospitalization and nonhospitalized claims. The sample contains about 217,000 randomly-selected...

We use an establishment-based survey of occupational injuries to analyze employers’ use of restricted work and its effect on days away from work. Because restricted work provisions vary with the duration and severity of injury, we use its predicted probability in our analysis of days away from...

Injuries are one of the most serious public health problems facing the United States today. Through premature death, disability, medical cost and lost productivity, injuries impact the health and welfare of all Americans. Deaths only begin to tell the story. Although many injuries are minor, a...