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Social security health insurance for the informal sector in Nicaragua: a randomized evaluation
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-09)
This article presents the results from an experimental evaluation of a voluntary health insurance program for informal sector workers in Nicaragua. Costs of the premiums as well as enrollment location were randomly allocated. ...
International Health Economics Association Seventeenth Annual Kenneth J. Arrow Award in Health Economics
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-09)
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The Price Sensitivity Of Medicare Beneficiaries: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.The AEI Press, 2013-01)
We use 4 years of data from the retiree health benefits program of the University of Michigan to estimate the effect of price on the health plan choices of Medicare beneficiaries. During the period of our analysis, changes ...
Genetic information, obesity, and labor market outcomes
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-09)
Economists have argued that obesity may lead to worse labor market outcomes, especially for women. Empirical methods to test this hypothesis have not thus far adequately controlled for the endogeneity of obesity. We use ...
Health-seeking behavior and hospital choice in China's New Cooperative Medical System
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-07)
Since the dissolution of the Rural Cooperative Medical System at the end of the commune period, illness has emerged as a leading cause of poverty in rural China. To address the poor state of health care, the Chinese ...
Investing time in health: do socioeconomically disadvantaged patients spend more or less extra time on diabetes self-care?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-06)
Background : Research on self-care for chronic disease has not examined time requirements. Translating Research into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD), a multi-site study of managed care patients with diabetes, is among the first ...
The validity of genes related to neurotransmitters as instrumental variables
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011-08)
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...