Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) occurs at a rate of approximately 40 cases per million in the United States (U.S.) Despite public policy efforts, return to employment among people with SCI has rarely exceeded 30%. When faced with a disabling health problem, traditional labor market household models...

Direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals has led to questions of whether consumers benefit from the additional drug information, or are harmed by being induced to pursue prescriptions that are unnecessary or even dangerous. We conducted an empirical study of the relation between...

We examine how direct to consumer advertising (DCA) affects the delay between diagnosis and pharmacological treatment for patients suffering from a common chronic disease. The primary data for this study consist of patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis (N=18,235) taken from a geographically...