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2010
w15737 Xin Xu
Robert Kaestner

The Business Cycle and Health Behaviors

w15723 Joseph P. Cook
Graeme Hunter
John A. Vernon

Generic Utilization Rates, Real Pharmaceutical Prices, and Research and Development Expenditures

w15720 Yang Lu
Dana Goldman

The Effects of Relative Food Prices on Obesity — Evidence from China: 1991-2006

w15717 Joshua Graff Zivin
Matthew J. Neidell

Temperature and the Allocation of Time: Implications for Climate Change

w15691 William Encinosa
Didem Bernard
Avi Dor

Does Prescription Drug Adherence Reduce Hospitalizations and Costs?

w15689 Kristian Bolin
Daniel Hedblom
Anna Lindgren
Bjorn Lindgren

Asymmetric Information and the Demand for Voluntary Health Insurance in Europe

w15687 Leemore Dafny
Katherine Ho
Mauricio Varela

Let them Have Choice: Gains from Shifting Away from Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and Toward an Individual Exchange

w15678 David M. Cutler
Fabian Lange
Ellen Meara
Seth Richards
Christopher J. Ruhm

Explaining the Rise in Educational Gradients in Mortality

w15669 Karen Clay
Werner Troesken

Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog

w15658 Christopher S. Carpenter
Mark F. Stehr

Intended and Unintended Effects of Youth Bicycle Helmet Laws

w15649 Tomas J. Philipson
Gary Becker
Dana Goldman
Kevin M. Murphy

Terminal Care and The Value of Life Near Its End

w15648 Bryan Bollinger
Phillip Leslie
Alan Sorensen

Calorie Posting in Chain Restaurants

w15633 Anirban Basu
Tomas J. Philipson

The Impact of Comparative Effectiveness Research on Health and Health Care Spending


2009
w15629 Stefano DellaVigna
John A. List
Ulrike Malmendier

Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving

w15618 Casey Ichniowski
Kathryn L. Shaw

Insider Econometrics: Empirical Studies of How Management Matters

w15603 Tomas J. Philipson
Eric C. Sun
Dana Goldman

The Effects of Product Liability Exemption in the Presence of the FDA

w15574 Eric C. Sun
Anupam B. Jena
Darius N. Lakdawalla
Carolina M. Reyes
Tomas J. Philipson
Dana P. Goldman

An Economic Evaluation of the War on Cancer

w15539 Daniel L. Millimet
Rusty Tchernis

Estimation of Treatment Effects Without an Exclusion Restriction: with an Application to the Analysis of the School Breakfast Program

w15535 Richard T. Boylan
Naci H. Mocan

Intended and Unintended Consequences of Prison Reform

w15517 Till Bärnighausen
David E. Bloom
Salal Humair

A Mathematical Model for Estimating the Number of Health Workers Required for Universal Antiretroviral Treatment

w15485 David O. Meltzer
Zhuo Chen

The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States

w15468 Margaret Kyle
Anita McGahan

Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS

w15456 Grant Miller
Diana M. Pinto
Marcos Vera-Hernández

High-Powered Incentives in Developing Country Health Insurance: Evidence from Colombia’s Régimen Subsidiado

w15439 Robert Kaestner
Benjamin Yarnoff

Long Term Effects of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Adult Alcohol Use and Driving Fatalities

w15436 Zhenxiang Zhao
Robert Kaestner

Effects of Urban Sprawl on Obesity

w15413 Janet Currie
Reed Walker

Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass

w15412 Daniel Carvell
Janet Currie
W. Bentley MacLeod

Accidental Death and the Rule of Joint and Several Liability

w15410 Jean Marie Abraham
Thomas DeLeire
Anne Beeson Royalty

Moral Hazard Matters: Measuring Relative Rates of Underinsurance Using Threshold Measures

w15392 Florian Heiss
Daniel McFadden
Joachim Winter

Regulation of private health insurance markets: Lessons from enrollment, plan type choice, and adverse selection in Medicare Part D

w15383 Darius N. Lakdawalla
Seth A. Seabury

The Welfare Effects of Medical Malpractice Liability

w15380 David A. Weiner
Byron F. Lutz
Jens Ludwig

The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime

w15364 Beomsoo Kim
Christopher J. Ruhm

Inheritances, Health and Death

w15354 Dave E. Marcotte
Sara Markowitz

A Cure for Crime? Psycho-Pharmaceuticals and Crime Trends

w15330 Darius Lakdawalla
Wesley Yin

Insurer Bargaining and Negotiated Drug Prices in Medicare Part D

w15326 Emily Oster
Ira Shoulson
Kimberly Quaid
E. Ray Dorsey

Genetic Adverse Selection: Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance and Huntington Disease

w15314 Richard G. Frank
Ellen Meara

The Effect of Maternal Depression and Substance Abuse on Child Human Capital Development

w15311 William N. Evans
Timothy J. Moore

The Short-Term Mortality Consequences of Income Receipt

w15310 William N. Evans
Timothy J. Moore

Liquidity, Activity, Mortality

w15309 William N. Evans
Craig L. Garthwaite

Estimating Heterogeneity in the Benefits of Medical Treatment Intensity

w15307 Motohiro Yogo
Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets

w15288 Shripad Tuljapurkar
Ryan D. Edwards

Variance in Death and Its Implications for Modeling and Forecasting Mortality

w15280 Michael Kremer
Jessica Leino
Edward Miguel
Alix Peterson Zwane

Spring Cleaning: Rural Water Impacts, Valuation and Property Rights Institutions

w15256 Jason M. Fletcher
Jody L. Sindelar

Estimating Causal Effects of Early Occupational Choice on Later Health: Evidence Using the PSID

w15245 Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest

Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.

w15235 Pierre-Carl Michaud
Dana Goldman
Darius Lakdawalla
Adam Gailey
Yuhui Zheng

International Differences in Longevity and Health and their Economic Consequences

w15232 Padmaja Ayyagari
Jody L. Sindelar

The Impact of Job Stress on Smoking and Quitting: Evidence from the HRS

w15231 Pierre-Carl Michaud
Dana Goldman
Darius Lakdawalla
Yuhui Zheng
Adam Gailey

Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health

w15229 Marianne P. Bitler
Christopher Carpenter
Madeline Zavodny

Effects of Venue-Specific State Clean Indoor Air Laws on Smoking-Related Outcomes

w15191 Partha Deb
Pravin K. Trivedi
David M. Zimmer

Dynamic Cost-offsets of Prescription Drug Expenditures: Panel Data Analysis Using a Copula-based Hurdle Model

w15168 Till Bärnighausen
David E. Bloom

Changing Research Perspectives on the Global Health Workforce

w15164 David M. Cutler
Bryan Lincoln
Richard J. Zeckhauser

Selection Stories: Understanding Movement Across Health Plans

w15163 Jay Bhattacharya
Kate Bundorf
Noemi Pace
Neeraj Sood

Does Health Insurance Make You Fat?

w15149 Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
John Bailey Jones

Why do the Elderly Save? The Role of Medical Expenses

w15148 Jason M. Fletcher
Steven F. Lehrer

Using Genetic Lotteries within Families to Examine the Causal Impact of Poor Health on Academic Achievement

w15146 Margaret E. Blume-Kohout
Krishna B. Kumar
Neeraj Sood

Federal Life Sciences Funding and University R&D

w15140 Marc T. Law
Zeynep K. Hansen

Medical Licensing Board Characteristics and Physician Discipline: An Empirical Analysis

w15137 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Günther Fink

Disease and Development Revisited

w15130 Jason M. Fletcher
Partha Deb
Jody L. Sindelar

Tobacco Use, Taxation and Self Control in Adolescence

w15124 Padmaja Ayyagari
Partha Deb
Jason Fletcher
William T. Gallo
Jody L. Sindelar

Sin Taxes: Do Heterogeneous Responses Undercut Their Value?

w15122 Partha Deb
William T. Gallo
Padmaja Ayyagari
Jason M. Fletcher
Jody L. Sindelar

Job Loss: Eat, drink and try to be merry?

w15121 Jason M. Fletcher
Jody L. Sindelar
Shintaro Yamaguchi

Cumulative Effects of Job Characteristics on Health

w15114 Phillip B. Levine
Robin McKnight
Samantha Heep

Public Policy, Health Insurance and the Transition to Adulthood

w15106 Anthony T. Lo Sasso
Lorens A. Helmchen
Robert Kaestner

The Effects of Consumer-Directed Health Plans on Health Care Spending

w15105 Dalton Conley
Jennifer A. Heerwig

The Long-Term Effects of Military Conscription on Mortality: Estimates from the Vietnam-era Draft Lottery

w15101 Naci H. Mocan
Erdal Tekin

Obesity, Self-esteem and Wages

w15098 Theodore J. Joyce
Abortion and Crime: A Review

w15096 Dana Goldman
Darius Lakdawalla
Yuhui Zheng

Food Prices and the Dynamics of Body Weight

w15089 Seema Jayachandran
Adriana Lleras-Muney
Kimberly V. Smith

Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs

w15078 Kenneth Y. Chay
Jonathan Guryan
Bhashkar Mazumder

Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth

w15056 Katherine Ho
Matthew Neidell

Equilibrium effects of public goods: The impact of community water fluoridation on dentists

w15046 Lisa M. Powell
Frank J. Chaloupka

Economic Contextual Factors and Child Body Mass Index

w15041 Seema Jayachandran
Ilyana Kuziemko

Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India

w15039 Melayne M. McInnes
Judith A. Shinogle

Physical Activity: Economic and Policy Factors

w15032 Anupam Jena
Tomas Philipson

Endogenous Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care Technology Adoption

w15027 Euna Han
Edward C. Norton
Lisa M. Powell

Direct and Indirect Effects of Teenage Body Weight on Adult Wages

w15007 Chris M. Herbst
Erdal Tekin

Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity

w15005 Richard V. Burkhauser
John Cawley
Maximilian D. Schmeiser

Differences in the U.S. Trends in the Prevalence of Obesity Based on Body Mass Index and Skinfold Thickness

w15001 Kerry Anne McGeary
The Impact of State-Level Nutrition-Education Program Funding on BMI: Evidence from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

w14995 Jeffrey E. Harris
Sandra G. Sosa-Rubi

Impact of "Seguro Popular" on Prenatal Visits in Mexico, 2002-2005: Latent Class Model of Count Data with a Discrete Endogenous Variable

w14994 Robert Kaestner
Michael Grossman
Benjamin Yarnoff

Effects of Weight on Adolescent Educational Attainment

w14989 Robert Sandy
Gilbert Liu
John Ottensmann
Rusty Tchernis
Jeffrey Wilson
O.T. Ford

Studying the Child Obesity Epidemic With Natural Experiments

w14988 Neeraj Kaushal
Qin Gao

Food Stamp Program and Consumption Choices

w14987 John Cawley
Joshua A. Price

Outcomes in a Program that Offers Financial Rewards for Weight Loss

w14985 Bisakha Sen
Stephen Mennemeyer
Lisa C. Gary

The Relationship Between Neighborhood Quality and Obesity Among Children

w14984 Christian A. Gregory
Christopher J. Ruhm

Where Does the Wage Penalty Bite?

w14964 Steven J. Atlas
Jonathan S. Skinner

Education and the Prevalence of Pain

w14945 Carlos Dobkin
Fernando Ferreira

Do School Entry Laws Affect Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes?

w14939 Enrico Moretti
Matthew Neidell

Pollution, Health, and Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from the Ports of Los Angeles

w14932 Joseph Golec
John Vernon

What's the "Interest" in FDA Drug Advisory Committee Conflicts of Interest?

w14924 Robert Kaestner
Adolescent Cognitive and Non-cognitive Correlates of Adult Health

w14908 Tara Watson
Inequality and the Measurement of Residential Segregation by Income In American Neighborhoods

w14886 Kathleen J. Mullen
Richard G. Frank
Meredith B. Rosenthal

Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers

w14853 Emily Oster
Rebecca Thornton

Menstruation and Education in Nepal

w14839 Thomas C. Buchmueller
Alan C. Monheit

Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and the Promise of Health Insurance Reform

w14838 Robert S. Goldfarb
Thomas C. Leonard
Sara Markowitz
Steven Suranovic

Can A Rational Choice Framework Make Sense of Anorexia Nervosa?

w14828 Emily Oster
Rebecca Thornton

Determinants of Technology Adoption: Private Value and Peer Effects in Menstrual Cup Take-Up

w14823 Ajay Mahal
Brendan O'Flaherty
David E. Bloom

Needle Sharing and HIV Transmission: A Model with Markets and Purposive Behavior

w14811 Gabriel Aranovich
Jay Bhattacharya
Alan M. Garber
Thomas E. MaCurdy

Coping with Chronic Disease? Chronic Disease and Disability in Elderly American Population 1982-1999

w14797 Albert Link
Christopher Ruhm

Public Knowledge, Private Knowledge: The Intellectual Capital of Entrepreneurs

w14790 Kanaka D. Shetty
Thomas DeLeire
Chapin White
Jayanta Bhattacharya

Changes in U.S. Hospitalization and Mortality Rates Following Smoking Bans

w14781 Joshua D. Angrist
Stacey H. Chen
Brigham R. Frandsen

Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health

w14773 Tara Watson
Sara McLanahan

Marriage Meets the Joneses: Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status

w14759 Jason T. Abaluck
Jonathan Gruber

Choice Inconsistencies Among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program

w14742 Jonathan Guryan
Melissa Schettini Kearney

Is Lottery Gambling Addictive?

w14728 Cristina Yunzal-Butler
Theodore J. Joyce
Andrew D. Racine

Maternal Smoking and the Timing of WIC Enrollment

w14721 Janet Currie
Stefano DellaVigna
Enrico Moretti
Vikram Pathania

The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity and Weight Gain

w14720 John F. Helliwell
Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh
Anthony Harris
Haifang Huang

International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being

w14718 Kyna Fong
Michael Schwarz

Towards an Efficient Mechanism for Prescription Drug Procurement

w14695 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman

The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development

w14692 Helen Levy
David Weir

Take-Up of Medicare Part D: Results from the Health and Retirement Study

w14671 Phillip B. Levine
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

The Impact of Children's Public Health Insurance Expansions on Educational Outcomes

w14653 Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
John Bailey Jones

Life Expectancy and Old Age Savings

w14637 Angus Deaton
Jane Fortson
Robert Tortora

Life (evaluation), HIV/AIDS, and Death in Africa

w14635 John Komlos
Recent Trends in Height by Gender and Ethnicity in the US in Relation to Levels of Income

w14634 Guy David
Sara Markowitz
Seth Richards

The Effects of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Promotion on Adverse Drug Events and Regulation


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