NBER Papers in Health


2008
w13987 Janet Currie
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development

w13947 Seema Jayachandran
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence From Maternal Mortality Declines

w13898 John Komlos
Ariane Breitfelder
Marco Sunder

The Transition to Post-industrial BMI Values Among US Children

w13885 Sherry A. Glied
Universal Public Health Insurance and Private Coverage: Externalities in Health Care Consumption

w13879 Sherry Glied
Matthew Neidell

The Economic Value of Teeth

w13877 Douglas Almond
Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.

After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays

w13875 Cathy J. Bradley
David Neumark
Lisa M. Shickle
Nicholas Farrell

Differences in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment:Experiences of Insured and Uninsured Patients in a Safety Net Setting

w13865 Jay Bhattacharya
Adam Isen

On Inferring Demand for Health Care in the Presence of Anchoring, Acquiescence, and Selection Biases

w13863 Jay Bhattacharya
Mikko Packalen

The Other Ex-Ante Moral Hazard in Health

w13862 Jay Bhattacharya
Mikko Packalen

Is Medicine an Ivory Tower? Induced Innovation, Technological Opportunity, and For-Profit vs. Non-Profit Innovation

w13857 Margaret E. Blume-Kohout
Neeraj Sood

The Impact of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical R&D

w13838 Erica M. Field
Omar Robles
Máximo Torero

The Cognitive Link Between Geography and Development: Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania

w13773 Anna Aizer
Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth

w13785 Radha Iyengar
Lindsay Sabik
Cindy Southworth
Sarah Tucker
Cynthia Fraser

50,000 People a Day: The Use of Federally Funded Services for Intimate Partner Violence

w13764 Robert Kaestner
Michael Grossman

Effects of Weight on Children's Educational Achievement

w13743 Henry Saffer
Karine Lamiraud

The Effect of Hours of Work on Social Interaction


2007
w13715 Jody L. Sindelar
Jason Fletcher
Tracy Falba
Patricia Keenan
William T. Gallo

Impact of First Occupation on Health at Older Ages

w13680 Larry E. Jones
Alice Schoonbroodt

Complements versus Substitutes and Trends in Fertility Choice in Dynastic Models

w13664 Awash Teklehaimanot
Gordon C. McCord
Jeffrey D. Sachs

Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa: An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment

w13630 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Michael Moore

A Theory of Retirement

w13610 Emily Oster
Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa

w13668 David Card
Carlos Dobkin
Nicole Maestas

Does Medicare Save Lives?

w13604 Joseph H. Golec
John A. Vernon

Financial Risk in the Biotechnology Industry

w13600 John Cawley
Feng Liu

Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A Search for Mechanisms in Time Use Data

w13599 W. Kip Viscusi
Joni Hersch

The Mortality Cost to Smokers

w13595 Roy Wada
Erdal Tekin

Body Composition and Wages

w13583 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Günther Fink
Jocelyn E. Finlay

Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend

w13578 Richard V. Burkhauser
Kosali I. Simon

Who Gets What from Employer Pay or Play Mandates?

w13561 Tomas J. Philipson
Eric Sun

Is the Food and Drug Administration Safe and Effective?

w13541 Anne Case
Alicia Menendez

Sex Differences in Obesity Rates in Poor Countries: Evidence from South Africa

w13539 David Cutler
Winnie Fung
Michael Kremer
Monica Singhal

Mosquitoes: The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India

w13529 Muriel Niederle
Alvin E. Roth

The Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices

w13519 Brian Jacob
Lars Lefgren

The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity

w13501 Darius Lakdawalla
Neeraj Sood

The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance

w13498 Sandra G. Sosa-Rubi
Omar Galarraga
Jeffrey E. Harris

Heterogeneous Impact of the "Seguro Popular" Program on the Utilization of Obstetrical Services in Mexico, 2001-2006: A Multinomial Probit Model with a Discrete Endogenous Variable

w13495 Anne Case
Diana Lee
Christina Paxson

The Income Gradient in Children's Health: A Comment on Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price

w13494 Anna Aizer
Wages, Violence and Health in the Household

w13492 Anna Aizer
Pedro Dal Bó

Love, Hate and Murder: Commitment Devices in Violent Relationships

w13488 Alan C. Monheit
Jessica P. Vistnes
Jeannette A. Rogowski

Overweight in Adolescents: Implications for Health Expenditures

w13482 Dhaval Dave
Henry Saffer

Risk Tolerance and Alcohol Demand Among Adults and Older Adults

w13478 David M. Cutler
The Lifetime Costs and Benefits of Medical Technology

w13477 David M. Cutler
Edward L. Glaeser

Social Interactions and Smoking

w13474 Jason Fletcher
Barbara L. Wolfe

Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD Revisited

w13466 Shin-Yi Chou
Jin-Tan Liu
Michael Grossman
Theodore J. Joyce

Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan

w13441 Theodore Joyce
Andrew D. Racine
Cristina Yunzal-Butler

Reassessing the WIC Effect: Evidence from the Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System

w13436 Melissa S. Kearney
Phillip B. Levine

Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Early Childbearing

w13429 June E. O'Neill
Dave M. O'Neill

Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S.

w13415 Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Beau Kilmer
Michael Grossman
Frank J. Chaloupka

Risks and Prices: The Role of User Sanctions in Marijuana Markets

w13411 Joshua D. Angrist
Stacey H. Chen

Long-term consequences of vietnam-era conscription: schooling, experience, and earnings

w13408 Christopher S. Carpenter
Mark Stehr

The Effects of Mandatory Seatbelt Laws on Seatbelt Use, Motor Vehicle Fatalities, and Crash-Related Injuries among Youths

w13407 Pinka Chatterji
Ellen Meara

Health and Labor Market Consequences of Eliminating Federal Disability Benefits for Substance Abusers

w13396 Till Bärnighausen
David E. Bloom

"Conditional scholarships" for HIV/AIDS Health Workers: Educating and Retaining the Workforce to Provide Antiretroviral Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa

w13386 MaryBeth Walker
Erdal Tekin
Sally Wallace

Teen Smoking and Birth Outcomes

w13384 Douglas Almond
Lena Edlund
Hongbin Li
Junsen Zhang

Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong

w13374 Christopher Carpenter
Carlos Dobkin

The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age

w13347 Douglas Almond
Lena Edlund
Mårten Palme

Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden

w13333 Gary Becker
Kevin Murphy
Tomas Philipson

The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care

w13324 John Komlos
Ariane Breitfelder

The height of US-born non-Hispanic children and adolescents ages 2-19, born 1942-2002 in the NHANES Samples

w13317 Angus Deaton
Income, Aging, Health and Wellbeing Around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

w13312 Charles F. Manski
Adaptive Minimax-Regret Treatment Choice, With Application To Drug Approval

w13301 Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.

Returns to Local-Area Health Care Spending: Using Health Shocks to Patients Far From Home

w13289 Charles L. Baum II
Christopher J. Ruhm

Age, Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Growth

w13262 Jeffrey S. DeSimone
Fraternity Membership and Drinking Behavior

w13261 Thomas Buchmueller
Anthony Lo Sasso
Kathleen Wong

How Did SCHIP Affect the Insurance Coverage of Immigrant Children?

w13252 Janet Currie
Eric Hanushek
E. Megan Kahn
Matthew Neidell
Steven Rivkin

Does Pollution Increase School Absences?

w13227 Olivier Deschenes
Enrico Moretti

Extreme Weather Events, Mortality and Migration

w13221 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Guenther Fink
Jocelyn E. Finlay

Does Age Structure Forecast Economic Growth?

w13195 James J. Heckman
The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation

w13178 Olivier Deschênes
Michael Greenstone

Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US

w13188 Michael Baker
Kevin S. Milligan

Maternal employment, breastfeeding, and health: Evidence from maternity leave mandates

w13181 Christopher J. Ruhm
Current and Future Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity in the United States

w13133 Christopher Carpenter
How Do Workplace Smoking Laws Work? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Local Laws in Ontario, Canada

w13125 Avi Dor
Mark V. Pauly
Margaret A. Eichleay
Philip J. Held

End-stage Renal Disease and Economic Incentives: The International Study of Health Care Organization and Financing

w13113 Inas Rashad
Sara Markowitz

Incentives in Obesity and Health Insurance

w13097 Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Environmental Policy as Social Policy? The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime

w13087 Rodrigo R. Soares
Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities

w13078 Michael C. Christensen
Dahlia Remler

Information and Communications Technology in Chronic Disease Care: Why is Adoption So Slow and Is Slower Better?

w13066 Kevin Lang
Hong Kang

Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage

w13049 Emily Oster
HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why Not Africa?

w13046 Christopher Carpenter
Philip J. Cook

Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: New Evidence from National, State, & Local Youth Risk Behavior Surveys

w13045 Melissa S. Kearney
Phillip B. Levine

Subsidized Contraception, Fertility, and Sexual Behavior

w13044 Mark V. Pauly
Fredric E. Blavin

Value Based Cost Sharing Meets the Theory of Moral Hazard: Medical Effectiveness in Insurance Benefits Design

w13013 David M. Cutler
Edward L. Glaeser
Allison B. Rosen

Is the US Population Behaving Healthier?

w12966 Carlos Bozzoli
Angus S. Deaton
Climent Quintana-Domeque

Child Mortality, Income and Adult Height

w12964 Henry Saffer
Melanie Wakefield
Yvonne Terry-McElrath

The Effect of Nicotine Replacement Therapy Advertising on Youth Smoking

w12954 Sara Bleich
David Cutler
Christopher Murray
Alyce Adams

Why Is The Developed World Obese?

w12951 Steven F. Lehrer
Nuno Sousa Pereira

Worker Sorting, Compensating Differentials and Health Insurance: Evidence from Displaced Workers

w12935 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew Oswald

Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?

w12934 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald

Hypertension and Happiness across Nations

w12929 Inas Rashad
Cycling: An Increasingly Untouched Source of Physical and Mental Health

w12907 Thomas DeLeire
Leonard M. Lopoo
Kosali I. Simon

Medicaid Expansions and Fertility in the United States

w12905 James Smith
Diabetes and the Rise of the SES Health Gradient

w12892 Dalton Conley
Gordon C. McCord
Jeffrey D. Sachs

Africa's Lagging Demographic Transition: Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Technology

w12869 Isaac Ehrlich
Jinyoung Kim

Has Social Security Influenced Family Formation and Fertility in OECD Countries? An Economic and Econometric Analysis

w12868 Isaac Ehrlich
The Mystery of Human Capital as Engine of Growth, or Why the US Became the Economic Superpower in the 20th Century

w12864 Jin-Tan Liu
Meng-Wen Tsou
James Hammitt

Health Information and Subjective Survival Probability: Evidence from Taiwan

w12858 Jonathan Gruber
Kosali Simon

Crowd-Out Ten Years Later: Have Recent Public Insurance Expansions Crowded Out Private Health Insurance?

w12857 Ming-Jen Lin
Jin-Tan Liu
Shin-Yi Chou

As Low Birth Weight Babies Grow, Can 'Good' Parents Buffer this Adverse Factor? A Research Note.

w12849 Neeraj Kaushal
Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? Evidence from Immigrant Experience

w12848 Nasreen Khan
Robert Kaestner
Swu Jane Lin

Prescription Drug Insurance and Its Effect on Utilization and Health of the Elderly

w12840 Flavio Cunha
James Heckman

The Technology of Skill Formation

w12838 Bruno L. S. Falcao
Rodrigo R. Soares

The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor

w12837 Rodrigo R. Soares
On the Determinants of Mortality Reductions in the Developing World

w12836 Javier A. Birchenall
Rodrigo R. Soares

Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare

w12831 Alberto Abadie
Alexis Diamond
Jens Hainmueller

Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program

w12830 Li Gan
Guan Gong

Estimating Interdependence Between Health and Education in a Dynamic Model


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