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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

NBER Papers in Health Economics


2013
w19058 Mark L. Egan
Casey B. Mulligan
Tomas J. Philipson

Adjusting Measures of Economic Output for Health: Is the Business Cycle Countercyclical?

w19046 Paul Gertler
Christel Vermeersch

Using Performance Incentives to Improve Medical Care Productivity and Health Outcomes

w19016 Andreas Ravndal Kostøl
Magne Mogstad

How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work

w19042 Jason M. Lindo
Aggregation and The Estimated Effects of Local Economic Conditions on Health

w19036 Rebekka Christopoulou
Dean R. Lillard

Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined? Evidence from British Immigrants

w19035 Liran Einav
Jonathan D. Levin

The Data Revolution and Economic Analysis

w19014 Sara Heller
Harold A. Pollack
Roseanna Ander
Jens Ludwig

Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout: A Randomized Field Experiment

w19005 Tomas J. Philipson
George Zanjani

Economic Analysis of Risk and Uncertainty induced by Health Shocks: A Review and Extension

w19002 Costas Meghir
Mårten Palme
Emilia Simeonova

Education, Cognition and Health: Evidence from a Social Experiment

w18994 Jason M. Lindo
Jessamyn Schaller
Benjamin Hansen

Economic Conditions and Child Abuse

w18991 Mark Pauly
Ashley Swanson

Social Impact Bonds in Nonprofit Health Care: New Product or New Package?

w18977 Janet Currie
W. Bentley MacLeod

Diagnosis and Unnecessary Procedure Use: Evidence from C-Section

w18974 Emmanuelle Lavaine
Matthew J. Neidell

Energy Production and Health Externalities: Evidence from Oil Refinery Strikes in France

w18964 Grant Miller
A. Mushfiq Mobarak

Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves

w18959 Garth Heutel
Christopher J. Ruhm

Air Pollution and Procyclical Mortality

w18948 Edward C. Norton
Lauren Hersch Nicholas
Sean Sheng-Hsiu Huang

Informal Care and Inter-vivos Transfers: Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women

w18947 Michael Geruso
Harvey S. Rosen

Fraud in the Workplace? Evidence from a Dependent Verification Program

w18935 Joshua Graff Zivin
Matthew Neidell

Environment, Health, and Human Capital

w18932 Grant Miller
Kimberly Singer Babiarz

Pay-for-Performance Incentives in Low- and Middle-Income Country Health Programs

w18926 Suhui Li
Avi Dor

How Do Hospitals Respond to Market Entry? Evidence from A Deregulated Market for Cardiac Revascularization

w18900 Sanders Korenman
Dahlia Remler

Rethinking Elderly Poverty: Time for a Health Inclusive Poverty Measure?

w18887 Hope Corman
Dhaval M. Dave
Nancy E. Reichman

Effects of Welfare Reform on Women’s Crime

w18876 Janet Currie
Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Katherine Meckel
Matthew J. Neidell
Wolfram Schlenker

Something in the Water: Contaminated Drinking Water and Infant Health

w18869 Bruce D. Meyer
Wallace K.C. Mok

Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption

w18863 John Cawley
Rosemary Avery
Matthew Eisenberg

The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes: The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products

w18859 Gary Solon
Steven J. Haider
Jeffrey Wooldridge

What Are We Weighting For?

w18858 Gregory J. Colman
Dhaval M. Dave

Physical Activity and Health

w18853 David Dranove
Craig Garthwaite
Christopher Ody

How do Hospitals Respond to Negative Financial Shocks? The Impact of the 2008 Stock Market Crash

w18830 Dhaval M. Dave
Effects of Pharmaceutical Promotion: A Review and Assessment

w18810 Silvie Colman
Thomas S. Dee
Theodore J. Joyce

Do Parental Involvement Laws Deter Risky Teen Sex?

w18805 John Cawley
Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder

The Demand for Cigarettes as Derived from the Demand for Weight Control

w18776 Alberto Chong
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
Dean Karlan
Martin Valdivia

Effectiveness and Spillovers of Online Sex Education: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombian Public Schools

w18773 Pinka Chatterji
Sara Markowitz

Effects of Bicycle Helmet Laws on Children's Injuries

w18772 Jens Ludwig
Greg J. Duncan
Lisa A. Gennetian
Lawrence F. Katz
Ronald C. Kessler
Jeffrey R. Kling
Lisa Sanbonmatsu

Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity

w18750 Pierre Dubois
Rachel Griffith
Aviv Nevo

Do Prices and Attributes Explain International Differences in Food Purchases?

w18736 Resul Cesur
Erdal Tekin
Aydogan Ulker

Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure

w18731 Hope Corman
Naci H. Mocan

Alcohol Consumption, Deterrence and Crime in New York City

w18700 Janet Currie
Lucas Davis
Michael Greenstone
Reed Walker

Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings

w18698 Naoki Aizawa
Hanming Fang

Equilibrium Labor Market Search and Health Insurance Reform

w18692 Alan Barreca
Karen Clay
Olivier Deschenes
Michael Greenstone
Joseph S. Shapiro

Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century

w18689 Jason Fletcher
The Effects of Childhood ADHD on Adult Labor Market Outcomes


2012
w18664 Gabriella Conti
James J. Heckman

The Developmental Approach to Child and Adult Health

w18662 Joshua Angrist
Miikka Rokkanen

Wanna Get Away? RD Identification Away from the Cutoff

w18660 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

Losing Heart? The Effect of Job Displacement on Health

w18656 D. Mark Anderson
Resul Cesur
Erdal Tekin

Youth Depression and Future Criminal Behavior

w18640 Michael Grossman
Erdal Tekin
Roy Wada

Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Youth Body Composition

w18639 Jason Fletcher
Barbara L. Wolfe

Increasing Our Understanding of the Health-Income Gradient in Children

w18630 Victor Iajya
Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Robert Slonim

The Effects of Information, Social and Economic Incentives on Voluntary Undirected Blood Donations: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Argentina

w18593 Patricia M. Danzon
Adrian K. Towse
Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz

Value-Based Differential Pricing: Efficient Prices for Drugs in a Global Context

w18589 Jay Bhattacharya
Christina Gathmann
Grant Miller

The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

w18580 Heather Royer
Mark F. Stehr
Justin R. Sydnor

Incentives, Commitments and Habit Formation in Exercise: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Workers at a Fortune-500 Company

w18572 Harold L. Cole
Soojin Kim
Dirk Krueger

Analyzing the Effects of Insuring Health Risks: On the Trade-off between Short Run Insurance Benefits vs. Long Run Incentive Costs

w18543 Ulrike Malmendier
Klaus Schmidt

You Owe Me

w18535 Hilary W. Hoynes
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Douglas Almond

Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net

w18529 Gary D. Hansen
Minchung Hsu
Junsang Lee

Health Insurance Reform: The Impact of a Medicare Buy-In

w18518 Nancy Nicosia
John M. MacDonald
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

Does Mandatory Diversion to Drug Treatment Eliminate Racial Disparities in the Incarceration of Drug Offenders? An Examination of California’s Proposition 36

w18494 Mikko Packalen
Jay Bhattacharya

Words in Patents: Research Inputs and the Value of Innovativeness in Invention

w18481 Mark Pauly
Cost Effectiveness Analysis and the Design of Cost-Sharing in Insurance: Solving a Puzzle

w18469 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald
Sarah Stewart-Brown

Is Psychological Well-being Linked to the Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables?

w18468 Katherine Baicker
Sendhil Mullainathan
Joshua Schwartzstein

Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance

w18461 Jakob Madsen
Health, Human Capital Formation and Knowledge Production: Two Centuries of International Evidence

w18444 Isaac Ehrlich
Yong Yin

The Problem of the Uninsured

w18422 Anna Aizer
Laura Stroud
Stephen Buka

Maternal Stress and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Siblings

w18378 James Habyarimana
William Jack

State vs Consumer Regulation: An Evaluation of Two Road Safety Interventions in Kenya

w18371 Janet Currie
Tom Vogl

Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries

w18361 Courtney C. Coile
Phillip B. Levine
Robin McKnight

Recessions, Older Workers, and Longevity: How Long Are Recessions Good For Your Health?

w18402 Teresa B. Gibson
A. Mark Fendrick
Michael E. Chernew

Cost-Sharing and Productivity

w18349 Eva O. Arceo-Gomez
Rema Hanna
Paulina Oliva

Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortality Differ Between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City

w18341 John Cawley
David Frisvold
Chad Meyerhoefer

The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children

w18338 Theodore J. Joyce
Ruoding Tan
Yuxiu Zhang

Back to the Future? Abortion Before & After Roe

w18327 Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Lead Policy and Academic Performance: Insights from Massachusetts

w18326 Kevin Callison
Robert Kaestner

Do Higher Tobacco Taxes Reduce Adult Smoking? New Evidence of the Effect of Recent Cigarette Tax Increases on Adult Smoking

w18318 Tom Vogl
Height, Skills, and Labor Market Outcomes in Mexico

w18309 Bruce D. Meyer
Laura R. Wherry

Saving Teens: Using a Policy Discontinuity to Estimate the Effects of Medicaid Eligibility

w18299 Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Sarah S. Stith

Removing Financial Barriers to Organ and Bone Marrow Donation: The Effect of Leave and Tax Legislation in the U.S.

w18282 Nathaniel Hendren
Private Information and Insurance Rejections

w18279 Jason Fletcher
Nicole L. Hair
Barbara L. Wolfe

Am I my Brother's Keeper? Sibling Spillover Effects: The Case of Developmental Disabilities and Externalizing Behavior

w18267 Olivier Deschenes
Michael Greenstone
Joseph S. Shapiro

Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions

w18255 Robert Kaestner
Anthony T. Lo Sasso

Does Seeing the Doctor More Often Keep You Out of the Hospital?

w18254 Joel C. Cantor
Alan C. Monheit
Derek DeLia
Kristen Lloyd

The Role of Federal and State Dependent Coverage Eligibility Policies on the Health Insurance Status of Young Adults

w18253 Jason M. Fletcher
Stephen L. Ross

Estimating the Effects of Friendship Networks on Health Behaviors of Adolescents

w18252 Edward C. Norton
Log Odds and Ends

w18238 Dhaval M. Dave
Jose M. Fernandez

The Effect of an Increase in Autism Prevalence on the Demand for Auxiliary Healthcare Workers: Evidence from California

w18233 Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir
Hope Corman
Kelly Noonan
Þórhildur Ólafsdóttir
Nancy E. Reichman

Are Recessions Good for Your Health Behaviors? Impacts of the Economic Crisis in Iceland

w18227 Ryan D. Edwards
Overseas Deployment, Combat Exposure, and Well-Being in the 2010 National Survey of Veterans

w18216 Jason M. Fletcher
Adolescent Depression and Adult Labor Market Outcomes

w18206 Hilary W. Hoynes
Douglas L. Miller
David Simon

Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health

w18200 Yaa Akosa Antwi
Asako S. Moriya
Kosali Simon

Effects of Federal Policy to Insure Young Adults: Evidence from the 2010 Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate

w18187 Chandler B. McClellan
Erdal Tekin

Stand Your Ground Laws, Homicides, and Injuries

w18180 Henry Saffer
Dhaval Dave
Michael Grossman

Behavioral Economics and the Demand for Alcohol: Results from the NLSY97

w18172 David Autor
Mark Duggan
Jonathan Gruber

Moral Hazard and Claims Deterrence in Private Disability Insurance

w18153 Janet Currie
Wanchuan Lin
Juanjuan Meng

Using Audit Studies to Test for Physician Induced Demand: The Case of Antibiotic Abuse in China

w18166 Florian Heiss
Adam Leive
Daniel McFadden
Joachim Winter

Plan Selection in Medicare Part D: Evidence from Administrative Data

w18105 Neale Mahoney
Bankruptcy as Implicit Health Insurance

w18087 George Wehby
Charles J. Courtemanche

The Heterogeneity of the Cigarette Price Effect on Body Mass Index

w18070 Janet Currie
Maya Rossin-Slater

Weathering the Storm: Hurricanes and Birth Outcomes

w18060 Cathy J. Bradley
David Neumark
Scott Barkowski

Does Employer-Provided Health Insurance Constrain Labor Supply Adjustments to Health Shocks? New Evidence on Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer

w18056 Anirban Basu
Estimating Person-Centered Treatment (PeT) Effects Using Instrumental Variables

w18033 Rema Hanna
Esther Duflo
Michael Greenstone

Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves

w18026 Jidong Huang
Frank J. Chaloupka
IV

The Impact of the 2009 Federal Tobacco Excise Tax Increase on Youth Tobacco Use

w18016 Naci H. Mocan
Colin Cannonier

Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone

w18002 Gabriella Conti
Christopher Hansman
James J. Heckman
Matthew F. X. Novak
Angela Ruggiero
Stephen J. Suomi

Primate Evidence on the Late Health Effects of Early Life Adversity

w18003 Dhaval M. Dave
Henry Saffer

Demand for Smokeless Tobacco: Role of Magazine Advertising

w17995 Katherine L. Milkman
John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Following Through on Good Intentions: The Power of Planning Prompts

w17987 Ali Yurukoglu
Medicare Reimbursements and Shortages of Sterile Injectable Pharmaceuticals

w17965 Melissa Schettini Kearney
Phillip B. Levine

Why is the Teen Birth Rate in the United States so High and Why Does it Matter?

w17949 Naci H. Mocan
Duha Tore Altindag

Education, Cognition, Health Knowledge, and Health Behavior

w17943 Jessica Cohen
Pascaline Dupas
Simone G. Schaner

Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

w17937 Laurence Ales
Roozbeh Hosseini
Larry E. Jones

Is There “Too Much” Inequality in Health Spending Across Income Groups?

w17936 Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.
John A. Graves
Jonathan Gruber
Samuel Kleiner

Do High-Cost Hospitals Deliver Better Care? Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns

w17932 Costas Meghir
Mårten Palme
Emilia Simeonova

Education, Health and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment

w17918 Sara Markowitz
Erik Nesson
Eileen Poe-Yamagata
Curtis Florence
Partha Deb
Tracy Andrews
Sarah Beth L. Barnett

Estimating the Relationship between Alcohol Policies and Criminal Violence and Victimization

w17901 Mark R. Cullen
Clint Cummins
Victor R. Fuchs

Geographic and Racial Variation in Premature Mortality in the US: Analyzing the Disparities

w17893 Charles J. Courtemanche
Daniela Zapata

Does Universal Coverage Improve Health? The Massachusetts Experience

w17892 Benjamin A. Olken
Junko Onishi
Susan Wong

Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia

w17870 Peter J. Huckfeldt
Neeraj Sood
José J Escarce
David C. Grabowski
Joseph P. Newhouse

Effects of Medicare Payment Reform: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems

w17865 Damien de Walque
William H. Dow
Carol Medlin
Rose Nathan

Stimulating Demand for AIDS Prevention: Lessons from the RESPECT Trial

w17857 Robin McKnight
Jonathan Reuter
Eric Zitzewitz

Insurance as Delegated Purchasing: Theory and Evidence from Health Care

w17850 Nicholas Bloom
Christos Genakos
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen

Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

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


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