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Informal Care and Caregiver's Health
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2015-02)
This study aims to measure the causal effect of informal caregiving on the health and health care use of women who are caregivers, using instrumental variables. We use data from South Korea, where daughters and daughters‐in‐law ...
Social Contagion Of Mental Health: Evidence From College Roommates
(MIT PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-08)
From a policy standpoint, the spread of health conditions in social networks is important to quantify, because it implies externalities and possible market failures in the consumption of health interventions. Recent studies ...
Morality and the limits of societal values in health care allocation
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002-04)
In this paper, we consider whether there is a clear moral justification for the proposal that societal value preferences (SVPs) should be included in Cost Effectiveness Analyses (CEA) of health care resource allocations. ...
Practice Patterns among Entrants and Incumbents in the Home Health Market after the Prospective Payment System was Implemented
(ElsevierWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-03)
Home health care expenditures were the fastest growing part of Medicare from 2001–2009, despite the implementation of prospective payment. Prior research has shown that home health agencies adopted two specific strategies ...
Alcohol consumption and body weight
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-07)
The number of Americans who are overweight or obese has reached epidemic proportions. Elevated weight is associated with health problems and increased medical expenditures. This paper analyzes Waves 1 and 2 of the National ...
Testing for family influences on obesity: The role of genetic nurture
(McGraw HillWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2019-07)
A large literature has documented strong positive correlations among siblings in health, including body mass index (BMI) and obesity. This paper tests whether that is explained by a specific type of peer effect in obesity: ...
Hospital-physician integration and risk-coding intensity
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Yale University Press, 2022-07)
Hospital-physician integration has surged in recent years. Integration may allow hospitals to share resources and management practices with their integrated physicians that increase the reported diagnostic severity of their ...
The impact of community midwives on maternal healthcare utilization
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Advancing Partners & Communities, 2023-03)
Globally 800 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. One of the major reasons for high maternal mortality ratios in many developing countries is the low proportion of births attended ...
The local health impacts of natural resource booms
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.World Bank, 2023-02)
This paper uses novel micro-data on natural resources and administrative health data in Brazil to study how economic booms in minerals affect health at birth. By implementing a reduced-form estimation of shift-share research ...