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Weight and wages: fat versus lean paychecks
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-05)
Past empirical work has shown a negative relationship between the body mass index (BMI) and wages in most cases. We improve on this work by allowing the marginal effect of non-linear BMI groups to vary by gender, age, and ...
How well do doctors know their patients? Evidence from a mandatory access prescription drug monitoring program
(Stata PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2020-09)
Many opioid control policies target the prescribing behavior of health care providers. In this paper, we study the first comprehensive state‐level policy requiring providers to access patients’ opioid history before making ...
Chronic Illness, Treatment Choice and Workforce Participation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-09)
Choices with respect to labor force participation and medical treatment are increasingly intertwined. Technological advances present patients with new choices and may facilitate continued employment for the growing number ...
An incentive approach to physician implementation of medical practice guidelines
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1997-09)
We propose a probabilistically based incentive payment system for guideline implementation that provides rewards for physicians who follow practice guidelines and additional remuneration for physician leaders who engage ...
Proximity to death and participation in the long-term care market
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-08)
The extent to which increasing longevity increases per capita demand for long-term care depends on the degree to which utilization is concentrated at the end of life. We estimate the marginal effect of proximity to death, ...
Population health and the economy: Mortality and the Great Recession in Europe
(Oxford University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2017-12)
We analyze the evolution of mortality‐based health indicators in 27 European countries before and after the start of the Great Recession. We find that in the countries where the crisis has been particularly severe, mortality ...
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 ...