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Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans
Chan, David C.; Card, David E.; Taylor, Lowell J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
of Doyle et al. (2015), we find that the VA reduces 28-day mortality by 46% (4.5 percentage points) and that these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938734
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Doctors, patients, and the racial mortality gap : what are the causes?
Simeonova, Emilia (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003781199
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Doctors, patients and the racial mortality gap
Simeonova, Emilia - In: Journal of health economics 32 (2013) 5, pp. 895-908
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210739
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Patronage politics and the development of the welfare state : confederate pensions in the American South
Eli, Shari; Salisbury, Laura - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010482886
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Patronage politics and the development of the Welfare State : confederate pensions in the American South
Eli, Shari; Salisbury, Laura - In: The journal of economic history 76 (2016) 4, pp. 1078-1112
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594863
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Patronage Politics and the Development of the Welfare State : Confederate Pensions in the American South
Eli, Shari - 2015
Beginning in the 1880s, southern states introduced pensions for Confederate veterans and widows. They continued to expand these programs through the 1920s, while states outside the region were introducing cash transfer programs for workers, poor mothers, and the elderly. Using legislative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457837
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Patronage Politics and the Development of the Welfare State : Confederate Pensions in the American South
Eli, Shari - 2015
Beginning in the 1880s, southern states introduced pensions for Confederate veterans and widows. They continued to expand these programs through the 1920s, while states outside the region were introducing cash transfer programs for workers, poor mothers, and the elderly. Using legislative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030624
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The gift of a lifetime : the hospital, modern medicine, and mortality
Hollingsworth, Alex; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Thomasson, … - 2022
. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a …-supported hospital reduced infant mortality by 10%, saving one life for every $20,000 (2017 dollars) spent. Effects were larger for Black … infants (16%) than for White infants (7%), implying a reduction in the Black-White infant mortality gap by one-third. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013454014
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The gift of a lifetime : the hospital, modern medicine, and mortality
Hollingsworth, Alex; Thomasson, Melissa A.; Karbownik, … - 2022
. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a …-supported hospital reduced infant mortality by 10%, saving one life for every $20,000 (2017 dollars) spent. Effects were larger for Black … infants (16%) than for White infants (7%), implying a reduction in the Black-White infant mortality gap by one-third. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013454920
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Discounting, cognition, and financial awareness : new evidence from a change in the military retirement system
Simon, Curtis J.; Warner, John Terry; Pleeter, Saul - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 53 (2015) 1, pp. 318-334
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343755