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NBER Papers in Health Economics


2012
w17789 Kristian Bolin
Bjorn Lindgren

The Double Facetted Nature of Health Investments - Implications for Equilibrium and Stability in a Demand-for-Health Framework

w17786 Michael Waldman
Sean Nicholson
Nodir Adilov

Positive and Negative Mental Health Consequences of Early Childhood Television Watching

w17785 Richard Akresh
Damien de Walque
Harounan Kazianga

Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso

w17781 Silvia H. Barcellos
Leandro Carvalho
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Child Gender And Parental Investments In India: Are Boys And Girls Treated Differently?

w17774 Chris M. Herbst
Erdal Tekin

Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions: Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets

w17750 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Effect of Pharmaceutical Innovation on the Functional Limitations of Elderly Americans Evidence from the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey

w17739 Jonathan Gruber
Nathaniel Hendren
Robert Townsend

Demand and Reimbursement Effects of Healthcare Reform: Health Care Utilization and Infant Mortality in Thailand

w17720 Scott A. Imberman
Adriana D. Kugler

The Effect of Providing Breakfast on Student Performance: Evidence from an In-Class Breakfast Program


2011
w17718 Margaret S. McMillan
William A. Masters
Harounan Kazianga

Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa: A Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso

w17713 Douglas Almond
Bhashkar Mazumder
Reyn van Ewijk

Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance

w17709 Philip J. Cook
Christine Piette Durrance

The Virtuous Tax: Lifesaving and Crime-Prevention Effects of the 1991 Federal Alcohol-Tax Increase

w17697 David H. Autor
The Unsustainable Rise of the Disability Rolls in the United States: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options

w17690 Verónica Amarante
Marco Manacorda
Edward Miguel
Andrea Vigorito

Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data

w17689 Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
John Bailey Jones
Angshuman Gooptu

Medicaid and the Elderly

w17684 Wolfram Schlenker
W. Reed Walker

Airports, Air Pollution, and Contemporaneous Health

w17676 Douglas Almond
Janet Currie
Mariesa Herrmann

From Infant to Mother: Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health

w17668 Marianne P. Bitler
Lucie Schmidt

Utilization of Infertility Treatments: The Effects of Insurance Mandates

w17658 Carole Roan Gresenz
Sarah E. Edgington
Miriam J. Laugesen
José J. Escarce

Take-Up of Public Insurance and Crowd-out of Private Insurance Under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children

w17636 Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Robert Slonim

Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment

w17629 Emily Oster
Ira Shoulson
E. Ray Dorsey

Optimal Expectations and Limited Medical Testing: Evidence from Huntington Disease

w17605 Naci H. Mocan
Bulent Unel

Skill-biased Technological Change, Earnings of Unskilled Workers, and Crime

w17602 Ufuk Akcigit
Qingmin Liu

The Role of Information in Competitive Experimentation

w17600 John Cawley
Asako S. Moriya
Kosali I. Simon

The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession

w17588 John Mullahy
Marginal Effects in Multivariate Probit and Kindred Discrete and Count Outcome Models, with Applications in Health Economics

w17580 G. Emmanuel Guindon
Arindam Nandi
Frank J. Chaloupka
IV
Prabhat Jha

Socioeconomic Differences in the Impact of Smoking Tobacco and Alcohol Prices on Smoking in India

w17578 Christopher J. Ruhm
Alison Snow Jones
William C. Kerr
Thomas K. Greenfield
Joseph V. Terza
Ravi S. Pandian
Kerry Anne McGeary

What U.S. Data Should be Used to Measure the Price Elasticity of Demand for Alcohol?

w17535 James B. Rebitzer
Mark E. Votruba

Organizational Economics and Physician Practices

w17526 Alan Barreca
Price V. Fishback
Shawn Kantor

Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the 1930s United States

w17507 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Erdal Tekin

Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior

w17483 Charles J. Courtemanche
Garth Heutel
Patrick McAlvanah

Impatience, Incentives, and Obesity

w17482 John Bridges
Christine Buttorff
Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn

Estimating Patients' Preferences for Medical Devices: Does the Number of Profile in Choice Experiments Matter?

w17478 Harold E. Cuffe
William T. Harbaugh
Jason M. Lindo
Giancarlo Musto
Glen R. Waddell

Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living

w17471 Chris M. Herbst
Erdal Tekin

The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity

w17434 Nicholas J. Sanders
Charles F. Stoecker

Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Using Gender Ratios to Measure Fetal Death Rates

w17426 Susan Busch
Ezra Golberstein
Ellen Meara

The FDA and ABCs: The Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Human Capital

w17423 Charles L. Baum
Shin-Yi Chou

The Socio-Economic Causes of Obesity

w17419 Guy David
Evan Rawley
Daniel Polsky

Integration and Task Allocation: Evidence from Patient Care

w17414 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Impact of Therapeutic Procedure Innovation on Hospital Patient Longevity: Evidence from Western Australia, 2000-2007

w17413 Henry Saffer
Dhaval M. Dave
Michael Grossman

Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity

w17410 Jeffrey R. Kling
Sendhil Mullainathan
Eldar Shafir
Lee Vermeulen
Marian Wrobel

Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans

w17408 Alan I. Barreca
Jason M. Lindo
Glen R. Waddell

Heaping-Induced Bias in Regression-Discontinuity Designs

w17406 Gregory J. Colman
Dhaval M. Dave

Exercise, Physical Activity, and Exertion over the Business Cycle

w17390 Christopher R. Knittel
Ryan Sandler

Cleaning the Bathwater with the Baby: The Health Co-Benefits of Carbon Pricing in Transportation

w17375 Daniel M. Hungerman
Do Religious Proscriptions Matter? Evidence from a Theory-Based Test

w17369 Brian A. Jacob
Jens Ludwig
Douglas L. Miller

The Effects of Housing and Neighborhood Conditions on Child Mortality

w17329 Naci H. Mocan
Duha Tore Altindag

Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament

w17325 Ralph Koijen
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
Motohiro Yogo

Health and Mortality Delta: Assessing the Welfare Cost of Household Insurance Choice

w17324 Judd B. Kessler
Alvin E. Roth

Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate

w17310 Janet Currie
Erdal Tekin

Is the Foreclosure Crisis Making Us Sick?

w17300 Guy David
Richard Lindrooth
Lorens A. Helmchen
Lawton R. Burns

Do Hospitals Cross Subsidize?

w17279 Richard V. Burkhauser
Sean Lyons
Kosali I. Simon

The Importance of the Meaning and Measurement of “Affordable” in the Affordable Care Act

w17273 Till Stowasser
Florian Heiss
Daniel McFadden
Joachim Winter

"Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?" Revisited: An Analysis of the Causal Pathways from Socio-economic Status to Health

w17255 Pascaline Dupas
Jonathan Robinson

Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments

w17244 Anneke Exterkate
Robin L. Lumsdaine

How Survey Design Affects Inference Regarding Health Perceptions and Outcomes

w17236 Mark Duggan
Tamara Hayford

Has the Shift to Managed Care Reduced Medicaid Expenditures? Evidence from State and Local-Level Mandates

w17232 Jean M. Abraham
Anne Beeson Royalty
Thomas DeLeire

Gauging the Generosity of Employer-Sponsored Insurance: Differences Between Households With and Without a Chronic Condition

w17226 Patricia M. Danzon
Michael F. Furukawa

Cross-National Evidence on Generic Pharmaceuticals: Pharmacy vs. Physician-Driven Markets

w17223 Cathy J. Bradley
David Neumark
Meryl I. Motika

The Effects of Health Shocks on Employment and Health Insurance: The Role of Employer-Provided Health Insurance

w17222 Christopher R. Knittel
Douglas L. Miller
Nicholas J. Sanders

Caution, Drivers! Children Present: Traffic, Pollution, and Infant Health

w17220 Charles J. Courtemanche
Art Carden

Competing with Costco and Sam's Club: Warehouse Club Entry and Grocery Prices

w17212 Pinka Chatterji
Sara Markowitz
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Early Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing

w17210 Michael Greenstone
Rema Hanna

Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India

w17205 Patricia M. Danzon
Nuno S. Pereira

Vaccine Supply: Effects Of Regulation And Competition

w17198 Carrie H. Colla
William H. Dow
Arindrajit Dube

The Labor Market Impact of Employer Health Benefit Mandates: Evidence from San Francisco’s Health Care Security Ordinance

w17196 Alberto Bisin
Andrea Moro
Giorgio Topa

The Empirical Content of Models with Multiple Equilibria in Economies with Social Interactions

w17183 Katherine L. Milkman
John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates

w17174 Patricia M. Danzon
Andrew W. Mulcahy
Adrian K. Towse

Pharmaceutical Pricing in Emerging Markets: Effects of Income, Competition and Procurement

w17168 Jonathan Gruber
The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: How Reasonable Are the Projections?

w17164 Richard V. Burkhauser
Jeff Larrimore
Kosali I. Simon

A "Second Opinion" on the Economic Health of the American Middle Class

w17162 Guy David
Sara Markowitz

Side Effects of Competition: the Role of Advertising and Promotion in Pharmaceutical Markets

w17161 Joseph P. Ferrie
Karen Rolf
Werner Troesken

Cognitive Disparities, Lead Plumbing, and Water Chemistry: Intelligence Test Scores and Exposure to Water-Borne Lead Among World War Two U.S. Army Enlistees

w17160 Sara Markowitz
E. Kathleen Adams
Patricia M. Dietz
Viji Kannan
Van Tong

Smoking Policies and Birth Outcomes: Estimates From a New Era

w17153 Arthur van Soest
Tatiana Andreyeva
Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith

Self Reported Disability and Reference Groups

w17138 Paul Bingley
Nabanita Datta Gupta
Peder J. Pedersen

Disability Programs, Health and Retirement in Denmark since 1960

w17096 James Banks
Zoe Oldfield
James P. Smith

Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes Between England and the United States

w17094 Charles I. Jones
Life and Growth

w17081 John Cawley
Christopher Ruhm

The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

w17070 Craig L. Garthwaite
The Doctor Might See You Now: The Supply Side Effects of Public Health Insurance Expansions

w17069 Guido Cataife
Charles J. Courtemanche

Is Universal Health Care in Brazil Really Universal?

w17068 Dhaval M. Dave
Jennifer Tennant
Gregory J. Colman

Isolating the Effect of Major Depression on Obesity: Role of Selection Bias

w17059 William T. Harbaugh
Naci H. Mocan
Michael S. Visser

Theft and Deterrence

w17049 James Banks
Richard Blundell
Antoine Bozio
Carl Emmerson

Disability, Health and Retirement in the United Kingdom

w17047 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Ulrike Malmendier

The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

w17046 Peter J. Huckfeldt
Christopher R. Knittel

Pharmaceutical Use Following Generic Entry: Paying Less and Buying Less

w17011 Anup Malani
Tomas J. Philipson

Can Medical Progress be Sustained? Implications of the Link Between Development and Output Markets

w17009 Laura Dague
Thomas DeLeire
Donna Friedsam
Daphne Kuo
Lindsey Leininger
Sarah Meier
Kristen Voskuil

Estimates of Crowd-Out from a Public Health Insurance Expansion Using Administrative Data

w17004 Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Matthew J. Neidell

The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity

w16990 Amitabh Chandra
Anupam B. Jena
Jonathan S. Skinner

The Pragmatist’s Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research

w16969 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Stephen P. Ryan
Paul Schrimpf
Mark R. Cullen

Selection on Moral Hazard in Health Insurance

w16955 Daniel Bennett
Chun-Fang Chiang
Anup Malani

Learning During a Crisis: the SARS Epidemic in Taiwan

w16953 Amitabh Chandra
Jonathan S. Skinner

Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care

w16938 Robert W. Fogel
Nathaniel Grotte

An Overview of The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700

w16927 Resul Cesur
Joseph J. Sabia
Erdal Tekin

The Psychological Costs of War: Military Combat and Mental Health

w16926 Jill R. Horwitz
Austin Nichols

Rural Hospital Ownership: Medical Service Provision, Market Mix, and Spillover Effects

w16915 Sara Markowitz
Alison Evans Cuellar
Ryan M. Conrad
Michael Grossman

The Effects of Alcohol Policies in Reducing Entry Rates and Time Spent in Foster Care

w16909 Jinhu Li
Jeremiah Hurley
Philip DeCicca
Gioia Buckley

Physician Response to Pay-for-Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

w16901 James A. Levinsohn
Zoë McLaren
Olive Shisana
Khangelani Zuma

HIV Status and Labor Market Participation in South Africa

w16900 Anirban Basu
Economics of Individualization in Comparative Effectiveness Research and a Basis for a Patient-Centered Health Care

w16888 Shamena Anwar
Hanming Fang

Testing for the Role of Prejudice in Emergency Departments Using Bounceback Rates

w16879 Ernst R. Berndt
Thomas G. McGuire
Joseph P. Newhouse

A Primer on the Economics of Prescription Pharmaceutical Pricing in Health Insurance Markets

w16873 Patricia M. Anderson
Kristin F. Butcher
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Adequate (or Adipose?) Yearly Progress: Assessing the Effect of "No Child Left Behind" on Children's Obesity

w16858 Tatiana Andreyeva
Inas Rashad Kelly
Jennifer L. Harris

Exposure to Food Advertising On Television: Associations With Children’s Fast Food and Soft Drink Consumption and Obesity

w16857 Dalton Conley
Jason Alan Thompson

Health Shocks, Insurance Status and Net Worth: Intra- and Inter-Generational Effects

w16844 Janet Currie
Michael Greenstone
Enrico Moretti

Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health

w16826 Marah A. Curtis
Hope Corman
Kelly Noonan
Nancy Reichman

Life Shocks and Homelessness

w16823 Anna A. Levine Taub
Anton Kolotilin
Robert S. Gibbons
Ernst R. Berndt

The Diversity of Concentrated Prescribing Behavior: An Application to Antipsychotics

w16811 Shin-Yi Chou
Michael Grossman
Jin-Tan Liu

The Impact of National Health Insurance on Birth Outcomes: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan

w16803 Inas Rashad Kelly
Dhaval M. Dave
Jody L. Sindelar
William T. Gallo

The Impact of Early Occupational Choice On Health Behaviors

w16798 Janet Currie
Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences

w16795 Jenny Williams
Jan C. van Ours
Michael Grossman

Why Do Some People Want to Legalize Cannabis Use?

w16794 G. Brant Morefield
David C. Ribar
Christopher J. Ruhm

Occupational Status and Health Transitions

w16772 Katherine Baicker
Jonathan S. Skinner

Health Care Spending Growth and the Future of U.S. Tax Rates

w16738 Li Gan
Feng Huang
Adalbert Mayer

A Simple Test of Private Information in the Insurance Markets with Heterogeneous Insurance Demand

w16722 Lance Lochner
Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship

w16711 Dalton Conley
Emily Rauscher

The Equal Environments Assumption in the Post-Genomic Age: Using Misclassified Twins to Estimate Bias in Heritability Models

w16695 Joshua Graff Zivin
Matthew Neidell
Wolfram Schlenker

Water Quality Violations and Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from Bottled Water Consumption

w16687 Philip Babcock
Kelly Bedard
Gary Charness
John Hartman
Heather Royer

Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives

w16673 Patricia M. Anderson
Kristin F. Butcher
Elizabeth U. Cascio
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Is Being in School Better? The Impact of School on Children's BMI When Starting Age is Endogenous

w16669 Marianne P. Bitler
Christopher S. Carpenter

Insurance Mandates and Mammography

w16668 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald

International Happiness

w16659 Dhaval M. Dave
Nancy E. Reichman
Hope Corman
Dhiman Das

Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training


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