from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/38vmMuu on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM Official recession figures ignore the costs associated with the loss of human life due to COVID-19. This paper constructs "full recession" measures that take into account the death toll. Key for the estimates are the number of dead, the individual’s willingness to accept mortality […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/32tUnRG on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM We exploit the sharp downward kink in college enrollment experienced by cohorts reaching college age after the 1973 military coup in Chile to study the causal effect of higher education on mortality. Using micro-data from the vital statistics for 1994-2017, we document an upward […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2IbsMhr on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM The number of U.S. coal-fired power plants declined by nearly 250 between 2001 and 2018. Given that burning coal generates large amounts of particulate matter, which is known to have adverse health effects, the closure of a coal-fired power plant should improve local air […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3kemM4g on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM The number of people who are obese and overweight presents a global challenge, and the development of effective interventions is hampered by a lack of research which takes in to account a joined up, whole systems approach to understanding the drivers of the phenomena. […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2IiBMB4 on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM This study investigates whether exposure to peer depression in adolescence affects own depression in adulthood. We find a significant long-term depression peer effect for females but not for males in a sample of U.S. adolescents who are followed into adulthood. An increase of one […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3ledcQo on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM Some consumers lack the cash needed to pay for medical care. As a result, they either delay care until they can pay for it or they forgo the care altogether. To test for such a possibility, we study the distribution of monthly Social Security […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/36isKw9 on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM Insurance choices are often hard to rationalize by standard theory and frequently appear sub-optimal. A key reason may be that people are unable to map the cost-sharing features of plans to their distribution of financial consequences. We develop and experimentally test a decision aid […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3kivnD0 on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM One of the most important changes to the United States health care system over the last two decades is the emergence of pay-for-performance as a way to encourage hospitals and other providers to improve quality of care. Unlike fee-for-service, these value-based purchasing programs measure […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3p6XQPQ on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM In 1966, Southern hospitals were barred from participating in the Medicare program unless they discontinued their long-standing practice of racial segregation. Using data from five Deep South states and exploiting county-level variation in Medicare certification dates, we find that gaining access to an ostensibly […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3eJigtF on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM Adolescent mental health is key for later well-being. Yet, causal evidence on environmental drivers of adolescent mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature—the gender composition in compulsory-school—affects mental health. We use Swedish administrative data (N=576,285) to link variation in gender […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3pf1S8Q on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM There is growing concern about the mental health and wellbeing of teachers globally, with the stress caused by the job thought to be a key factor driving many to leave the profession. It is often claimed that teachers have worse mental health and wellbeing […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3eMqi4L on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM The recent drinking water crisis in Newark, New Jersey’s largest city, has renewed concerns about the lead-in-water crisis becoming a persistent and widespread problem owing to the nation’s aging infrastructure. We exploit a unique natural experiment in Newark, which exogenously exposed some women in […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/32tL0Sh on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation in Peru, a country with low governance indicators. Combining test scores from over two million students and district-level administrative data of mining […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3ncZEoz on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM We study the identification of channels of policy reforms with multiple treatments and different types of selection for each treatment. We disentangle reform effects into policy effects, selection effects, and time effects under the assumption of conditional independence, common trends, and an additional exclusion […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2Uhq63X on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM Sex differences in early age mortality have been explained in prior literature by differences in biological make-up and gender discrimination in the allocation of household resources. Studies estimating the effects of these factors have generally assumed that offspring sex ratio is random, which is […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/36kedzV on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM Transport has a large number of significant externalities including carbon emissions, air pollution, accidents, and congestion. Active travel such as cycling and walking can reduce these externalities. Moreover, public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel due to health benefits of […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/35clvqg on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM This study computes income elasticity of out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures of Indian households both across the income groups using the Spline regression model and across the level of health expenditure based on the Quintile regression technique using survey data collected in 2014 and 2018. Healthcare […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3kfEFzF on November 9, 2020 at 11:14PM Pandemics such as COVID-19 have lethal potential for inflicting long-lasting cyclic devastations if required preventive, curative and reformative steps are not taken up in time which puts forth mammoth multi-dimensional challenges for survival before mankind. Scientists and policymakers all around are striving to achieve […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2TMD4qh on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM Assessing the direct and indirect health impact of the COVID 19 pandemic is central in managing public health and other policy measures while learning to co-exist with the virus. Many countries are publishing statistics on COVID 19 related mortality. While the frequent and timely […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/34QExlN on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM This paper examines the effects of in-utero exposure to stress on lifelong labor market outcomes. We exploit a unique natural experiment that involved randomly placed Nazi raids on municipalities in Italy during WWII. We use administrative data on the universe of private sector workers […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/34PUSqK on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM Recent research has explored the distributive consequences of major historical epidemics, and the current crisis triggered by Covid-19 prompts us to look at the past for insights about how pandemics can affect inequalities in income, wealth, and health. The fourteenth-century Black Death, which is […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3mN8Obj on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM Studies have widely documented how families fare when receiving income boosts. Relatively little is known about the intergenerational effects of income losses, especially those resulting from austerity measures pursued after the Great Recession. Income loss can trigger family stress, whereby financial hardship hastens psychological […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3kXMNpW on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM We built a database of two samples of patients surveyed within the same regions in rural China over a time interval of 18 years, and presumed varying demand heterogeneity due to income increase and people aging. We find that while the mean price and […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/38cmmsG on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM This study investigates the forces that contributed to severe shortages in personal protective equipment in the US during the COVID-19 crisis. Problems from a dysfunctional costing model in hospital operating systems were magnified by a very large demand shock triggered by acute need in […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/35QA7dO on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian administrative data […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/361C1Zv on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM Although many students suffer from anxiety and depression, and students often identify school pressure and concerns about their futures as the main reasons for their worries, little is known about the consequences of a selective school environment on students’ physical and mental health. In […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2TJsOPI on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM We examine the impact of criminalizing sex work, exploiting an event in which local officials unexpectedly criminalized sex work in one district in East Java, Indonesia, but not in neighboring districts. We collect data from female sex workers and their clients before and after […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/38579Kf on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM This paper estimates the effects of pro-natalist cash transfers (baby bonus) on birth outcomes. I exploit rich spatial and temporal variation in these cash transfers and administrative data on the universe of birth and death registry records in South Korea. I find that the […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3jLhhtG on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM We examine the extent to which recent declines in child mortality and fertility in Sub- Saharan Africa can be attributed to insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs). Exploiting the rapid increase in ITNs since the mid-2000s, we employ a difference-in-differences estimation strategy to identify the causal […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/34QZEUZ on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM We use data from time-use surveys and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to analyze the relationship between family long-term care (LTC) and female labor supply in four Latin American countries. Time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2TNqNSI on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures between patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3mP9P2L on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM This paper uses a difference-in-differences (DID) framework to estimate the impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) used to fight the 1918 influenza pandemic and control the resultant mortality in 43 U.S. cities. The results suggest that NPIs such as school closures and social distancing, as […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2TLDZrd on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM COVID-19 created major disruptions for young people including health concerns, school closures, reduced social opportunities, and a wilting economy. We examine the effect of COVID-19 on high school completion in the United States. We find that high school completion rates increased considerably in 2020 […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2JnRL12 on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM Economic analysis of effective policies for managing epidemics requires an integrated economic and epidemiological approach. We develop and estimate a spatial, micro-founded model of the joint evolution of economic variables and the spread of an epidemic. We empirically discipline the model using new U.S. […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/34ON0G4 on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM We exploit the Zika outbreak in Colombia in 2015 to explore how a negative shock that puts at high risk the newborn’s health affects female behaviours associated with fertility, according to their marital status. The potential endogeneity of behaviours and the outbreak onset is […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3jY0Udy on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM COVID-19 represents one of the biggest pandemic faced by humanity in recent times, spreading to almost all countries and territories on all continents. Because it spread so suddenly and quickly, COVID-19 produced an unparalleled increase in demand in personal protective equipment, medical products and […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3kQERXr on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM We develop a novel empirical approach to identify the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic. The essence of our approach is the insight that epidemic dynamics are best tracked over stages, rather than over time. We use a normalization procedure that makes the pre-policy […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/34QPQub on November 2, 2020 at 08:34PM Compliance with measures like social distancing, hand-washing and wearing masks have emerged as the dominant strategy to combat health risk from the COVID-19 pandemic. These behaviors are often argued to be pro-social, where one must incur private cost to benefit or protect others. Using […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/3mttYez on October 26, 2020 at 09:42PM This paper examines the geographic factors that are associated with the spread of COVID-19 in Sweden. The country is a useful case study to examine because it did not impose mandatory lockdowns, and thus we would expect the virus to spread in a more […]

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2Tu6dqi on October 26, 2020 at 09:42PM Economic theory predicts that outsourcing public services to private firms will reduce costs, but the effect on quality is ambiguous. We explore quality differences between publicly and privately owned ambulances in a setting where patients are as good as randomly assigned to ambulances of […]